[tcrist]

I had a similar thing happen to me. There was a guy that had a house and shop on about 10 acres. Out in the field the had 3 model "A's". Over about a five year span, I would stop by and talk once in a while but he would never sell any of them. He told me they were like his children. All of this time I am thinking "you would let you children set out in a field and just rust away?". I finaly got tired of always getting a very polite "no" and quit asking.

A couple of years later I found out that an auto shop school teacher from one of the local high schools made a deal with him. He would take one of them and build the owner a mild street rod (at no cost to the owner) for the other two.

I talked to the shop teacher ,as he taught in the same school that my children went to, and he said that he only stopped by once and offered the guy the deal and he took it.

I guess that it just has to be the right time and the right deal.