[Mgs] A modest proposal

[derek at vandivere.net]

Wait, I'm confused. You want to start a trust to keep the British car
heritage in the US? Seems a little odd to me.

I don't think that the dollar has a lot to do with classics being shipped
- in a lot of cases, the Southwest and Californian environments preserve
cars so well that it's typical to see "California car" in ads here in
Holland.

Derek, glad my pension's in Euros.

> Don,
> I don't know where you are situated, but I for one am very happy that the
> British does not have a scheme as you propose. I would not have my 4 M.G.s
> or the Austin -Healey or ..
> You get the idea I trust
>
> Best regards
>
> Sven Sweden
>
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> [mailto:mgs-bounces+bispmotala=hotmail.com at autox.team.net] Fvr Don Scott
> Skickat: den 20 mars 2008 15:19
> Till: mgs at autox.team.net
> Dmne: [Mgs] A modest proposal
>
> In my attempts to find an early B roadster, I wrote to
> someone in a local British car club, and mentioned that I
> regreted selling mine.  He replied that there were many
> people looking for MGs and other old British sports cars who
> also had similar regrets.
>
> The following is part of my response to his reply.  Anyone
> have any comments?  Is this a silly idea?  Is there an
> organization (car club or clubs?) that could do it?
>
>
> Thanks for taking time to reply to my inquiry.  I think
> what is happening is
> that we are finally seeing the result of all the cars being
> shipped abroad.
> Over the last twenty years, I have owned eight MGBs, most
> of a TR3, two TR8s,
> one Bugeye Sprite, and two MGAs.  About 2/3 of them, when I
> sold them, went to
> buyers who shipped them to Canada, France, and Germany.  I
> didn't feel great
> about that, but money is money.  I always wondered if we
> were selling our hobby
> away, and now it's very apparent with the present economic
> situation, that
> foreigners are going to pluck away all our stuff that has
> value.  The US dollar
> is in the process of extreme decline and old cars here will
> be such bargains
> that foreigners will buy 'em all.  I still think people in
> the car hobby in the US need
> to start a trust to keep 'em here.  All it would take is a
> trust that acts as a
> lienholder on the title of cars.  It would be voluntary on
> the part of a car
> owner to place the "lien" on the car, and what it would do
> is impose a
> limitation that would keep a subsequent owner of the car
> from shipping it out.
> The downside, of course, is that the pool of buyers would
> be less, and maybe
> the price somewhat less when selling the car.
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