Well, Dave, you could:
1. Sell it now with a delivery date determined by your death, kind of like a
reverse mortgage. This calls for a buyer with deep pockets and a lot of
patience, but look what's happened to auction prices for Healey's in the
past 5 years! He'd be getting a real deal paying today's prices for
tomorrow's car. Then use to money to take it to a 100 point car and really
make him rich! You might have to sell the "franchise" at a little discount,
but you'd still get cash and you'd know where the car was going.
2. Donate it to a charity along with instructions on how to sell it to
maximize their return. Your executor would then be able to deduct it from
your total estate, should you have more than a mil or so in your estate.
P.S. If you want to make someone's life miserable, write a will with 30
heirs and make them executor. Be sure to invest in a lot of real estate,
too. Take it from one who knows....
3. Leave it to your local/national club to be auctioned or raffled off.
They'll give your sisters a nice plaque with your name and picture on it and
you'll be the toast of the marque. The car will become known as the "Jones
Healey" like the "Cooper S" and live on into antiquity.
4. Leave a note in it to be shipped to me and I'll take care of it like a
little baby. Honest.
Just had to throw that last one in.
Bill Moyer, BJ7
-----Original Message-----
From: davidwjones [mailto:davidwjones@cox.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 1:29 PM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: And to my Cat, Rasputin, I leave.....
....a can opener, 3 cases of little Friskies, and a 1962 Austin Healey 3000
MK
II tricarb....
In a recent exchange with another lister off list, he mentioned that his
kids
would have to decide who got the Healey when he was gone...
Now, I am not planning to go anytime soon, but I have thought about what to
have done with my Healey when I do go.
I don't have any children or nephews to leave it to, and my best friend who
is
into LBCs is my age. I think that my two sisters prefer to appreciate it
from
a distance. -I don't have any intention to sell the car in my lifetime, and
I
have been trying to figure out what would be a good plan for it.
I spent a great deal of time money and effort restoring the car to a high
level. Thinking of my sisters trying to sell the car for anywhere near what
it
is worth, leaves me a little queasy. -And neither of them really needs what
would be the proceeds. -And I would like to somehow insure that the car
will
have a good home.
I figure I cannot be the only one to have thought of this, and was wondering
if anyone had arrived at a plan. I had thought of the possibility of
donating
it somewhere... but don't know if anyplace like the Museum of Transportation
in Boston would be interested..
Strenuously, Any ideas?
...and no, I don't want to be buried in it....although, ..I do have a
removable hard top....!!!
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