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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 160553" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>The problem of transferring a hoard of Vincent parts from a willing old 80-year-old codger to an eager young 75-year-old whippersnapper in the UK, where there are 10,000 Vincent owners (estimated), all of whom live within 5 miles of each other (also, estimated), is different than in the U.S., where there are only 100 Vincent owners (est.), no two of whom are closer than 500 miles (est.) from each other.</p><p></p><p>My State alone is 1.3× larger than that <em>entire</em> island, and I doubt if there are even 10 Vincents (I know of just five) within an area that's the radius of London-to-Birmingham. This means the number of Vincent hoards within a 400-mile drive (the distance to Los Angles) has to be tiny compared with that of the UK, and the distance that would have to be traveled to visit one of those hoards is large.</p><p></p><p>That leaves eBay, where either the parts would have to be listed one-by-one, or the entire hoard offered all at once. But, even if a hoard appeared on Ebay that looked like it might be worth $15k, how many people would bid even $5k sight-unseen?</p><p></p><p>So, those of you who are trying to shame us hoarders into giving up our piles of worn-out rusty parts need to come up with reasonable suggestions that would make that possible (nb. I used Cyborg's quote because it was useful, not because I believe for a second anyone but his descendants are going to release his hoards).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 160553, member: 2806"] The problem of transferring a hoard of Vincent parts from a willing old 80-year-old codger to an eager young 75-year-old whippersnapper in the UK, where there are 10,000 Vincent owners (estimated), all of whom live within 5 miles of each other (also, estimated), is different than in the U.S., where there are only 100 Vincent owners (est.), no two of whom are closer than 500 miles (est.) from each other. My State alone is 1.3× larger than that [I]entire[/I] island, and I doubt if there are even 10 Vincents (I know of just five) within an area that's the radius of London-to-Birmingham. This means the number of Vincent hoards within a 400-mile drive (the distance to Los Angles) has to be tiny compared with that of the UK, and the distance that would have to be traveled to visit one of those hoards is large. That leaves eBay, where either the parts would have to be listed one-by-one, or the entire hoard offered all at once. But, even if a hoard appeared on Ebay that looked like it might be worth $15k, how many people would bid even $5k sight-unseen? So, those of you who are trying to shame us hoarders into giving up our piles of worn-out rusty parts need to come up with reasonable suggestions that would make that possible (nb. I used Cyborg's quote because it was useful, not because I believe for a second anyone but his descendants are going to release his hoards). [/QUOTE]
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