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About the last situation I remember one experience, I had made a long time ago, in 1991, when I was a youngster with my K 70-hobby.
On a classic car-market in Northern Germany one guy has asked us, if we are interested in a K 70 for spare-parts. He had such a car.
O.k., after the market had finished, we went to him, it was not far away. The K 70 was rotten, it stands for a longer time outside. Some months later a friend of mine has picked it up, just because it had a rare gearbox-version, but this is annother story.
This guy was really proud of his oldtimer-"collection". He loved mainly the Mercedes W 110 "fintail", the NSU Prinz 4 and the VW 1303 ("Super Beetle" in America). Some cars were standing around. If the space was missing, because he got other cars, he wrecked the worse one of his "collection". "Wrecking" meant, that he has dismantled the doors, the hoods and the engine - and has put all these parts on a mountain. Outside. On the grass. In the rain. And it was in the farest Northwest of Germany, the wet Frisian country (wet by rain and salty-wet by the wind from the North Sea, a definetely bad place for old cars).
By the way: he had also K 70-doors for sale. Not visible, because at the bottom of this door-mountain "The were excellent, when I've put them there!" ( ca 4 or 5 years before).
He told us, what rare cars he got, a Mercedes 230 with a body of a 220 S, one of the last made NSU Prinz 4 "I drove extra to Belgium to get it" and so on.
I listened to him, saw this -former- beautiful cars stucking in the deep, wet grass and at least I've asked him: "Why do you buy all these nice classics, when you finally let them rotten to death in this sticky mud?"
He got big eyes, shouted only "Oh nein!" -means "Oh, no!"- and started to cry.
On a classic car-market in Northern Germany one guy has asked us, if we are interested in a K 70 for spare-parts. He had such a car.
O.k., after the market had finished, we went to him, it was not far away. The K 70 was rotten, it stands for a longer time outside. Some months later a friend of mine has picked it up, just because it had a rare gearbox-version, but this is annother story.
This guy was really proud of his oldtimer-"collection". He loved mainly the Mercedes W 110 "fintail", the NSU Prinz 4 and the VW 1303 ("Super Beetle" in America). Some cars were standing around. If the space was missing, because he got other cars, he wrecked the worse one of his "collection". "Wrecking" meant, that he has dismantled the doors, the hoods and the engine - and has put all these parts on a mountain. Outside. On the grass. In the rain. And it was in the farest Northwest of Germany, the wet Frisian country (wet by rain and salty-wet by the wind from the North Sea, a definetely bad place for old cars).
By the way: he had also K 70-doors for sale. Not visible, because at the bottom of this door-mountain "The were excellent, when I've put them there!" ( ca 4 or 5 years before).
He told us, what rare cars he got, a Mercedes 230 with a body of a 220 S, one of the last made NSU Prinz 4 "I drove extra to Belgium to get it" and so on.
I listened to him, saw this -former- beautiful cars stucking in the deep, wet grass and at least I've asked him: "Why do you buy all these nice classics, when you finally let them rotten to death in this sticky mud?"
He got big eyes, shouted only "Oh nein!" -means "Oh, no!"- and started to cry.