Re: [CR]Re: re: trestina woes

(Example: Framebuilders:Tony Beek)

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:41:27 -0700
From: "Morgan Fletcher" <morgan@hahaha.org>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: re: trestina woes
References: <13749.65.220.90.243.1208460400.squirrel@webmail.nac.net>
In-Reply-To: <13749.65.220.90.243.1208460400.squirrel@webmail.nac.net>


wheelman@nac.net wrote:
> The only crime here is one generational diversity. If this was done 20 or
> so years ago no one would have batted an eye. One reason for bike scarcity
> is the wanton modification by owners. How may bikes have you seen where
> the fork was modified, the decals stripped or the dreaded powder coating
> applied. To the collectors community this seems sacrilegious but to the
> owner they have one sweet ride when they are among their own.
>
> Just think of it this way. When all the Ferrari's are crashed or otherwise
> mutilated, your original becomes that more valuable. That is unless the
> current generation could give a rats @$$ about a Ferrari.
>
> I also think back to how many pieces of natural wood antique furniture
> were lathered with house paint in the 50s and 60s when it was fashionable
> to do so.

Think about how many old Ford coupes were hot-rodded by youthful miscreants in the 40s and 50s, and how now there are true "vintage restorations" of those blasphemies being fawned over, on which money continues to be misspent... :)

Part of the fun is offending the old farts. Then they grow up to be old farts!

Morgan "Von Dutch or Jack Taylor?" Fletcher Oakland, CA