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[GMCnet] Uh-oh. The CFO wants me to sell the Barn Queen. [message #215094]

Sat, 20 July 2013 07:09

Robin Hood

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Registered: April 2011

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Or even scrap it.

Given the expense and effort and stress involved in getting the Royale up
and running well enough to make it to her new home, she despairs of having
to do the same with the Palm Beach.

"Dear, if I sell it, there's no way I can get more than a pittance for it
in its current condition."

"That's a chance I'm willing to take! Will a a scrapyard take it?"

"Sweetheart, I will GIVE the thing away before I put it in a scrapyard."

"I'm okay with that, too! We can take the empty space at the new storage
yard and park my now-empty boat trailer there, and put the Catalina back in
the garage where she belongs."

"Dear... I don't think 35 bucks a month to park a rattletrap old boat
trailer makes much sense."

"Oh, so you'll spend the money to store your run-down old RV, but not for
my boat trailer???"

She glared at me over our meal. I made a big show of taking a loooooong
drink while I tried to come up with some sort of counter-argument, I felt
like a young attorney in over his head who had just gotten snaked by one of
the old grey-hairs with a four-digit bar number (mine is six digits).

"Uh.... I got nothin'."

From an objective point of view, she's right. At this stage of my life, I
can't afford to restore TWO of these. I may not even be able to afford to
REPAIR two of these. ONE may be a problem. On the other hand, the various
parts are valuable (engine, tranny, glass, ACs, etc that make just storing
it for 35 bucks a month a no-brainer. Futhermore, once the effort to make
her sufficiently road-worthy to drive to the new place is done, that's a
HUGE part of the task accomplished right there; the rest is mostly
remodeling etc.

My concience won't let me sell her in an unsafe-to-drive condition.

Cost/benefit analysis:
I have four good tires and 3 bad rims for the Palm Beach (currently sitting
under the Palm Beach).
I have six aged-out tires on 6 good rims that came from the Royale,
currently sitting beside the Palm Beach.
Ergo, I need to remove six bad tires from the 6 good rims, but the 3 good
tires from the Palm Beach onto them, and buy two more good tires, for a
total of six good tires and rims. That will cost some money.
A battery is needed. That will cost some money.
A fuel cell is currently feeding the engine, sitting in the passenger seat.
5 gallon steel can. I suspect the fuel lines will need to be replaced with
the spendy space-age milspec stuff that Tom and I found.
The brakes need to be bled and serviced.
I bet that for around a thousand dollars, I can get her moving safely under
her own power.
I could put the Royale wheels with old tires on her for FREE, and get her
Landolled for 600 or so.
I could attempt to drive her with the Royale's old wheels/tires... they
brought me 150 miles home after all. It'd be pushing my luck though. I have
AAA, but they may invite me to leave if I abuse them (they're still upside
down with me from the first time I had the Barn Queen towed).

I'd appreciate thoughts from the Hive Mind. :)

--
Robin Hood
Jackson, MS
2013 Subaru Outback "Top Flight"
1968 Pontiac Catalina "The Cheshire Cat"
1978 GMC Royale motorhome "Pinto Bean"
1977 GMC Palm Beach motorhome "Barn Queen"
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