How To Find Old Cars For Sale

My next door neighbor Len Anderson is a classic car collector and has a beautifully repainted 1953 Rolls Royce in his garage. He also has some more old, unusual cars in his basement. In the recent past he has had and sold two running Edsels and a World War Two Jeep. The other old car that he has upstairs in his automotive museum is an original 1934 Plymouth 4 door. It is a barn car with all original paint, glass and mechanicals.

Besides having antique toys and toy cars, Len sells mostly old car parts and paraphernalia. He has boxes and boxes full of items from the teens to the 1950's including: 1930's car door handles, chrome trim parts, old spotlights, hood ornaments, car ads, old manuals, and misc. classic car collectibles. He has found most of his sell ables and personal collection just driving around northern Illinois and Iowa, but he frequently scans the pages of Hemming's Motor News magazine. To contact his business to see if he has any of those missing pieces that would finish your collection or auto restoration, call the Riverview Antiques at: 1-815-244-7875.

Archaeological Digs

Len's building was originally a Model T garage and later a Chevy garage in the 1960's. The canyon behind my house and his building has offered up some old car parts, such as a complete Model T frame that still had it's original muffler ends hanging from it (they were cast iron), fenders from that same car and fenders from various other 1930's cars. Discarded parts and pieces and even whole cars found their way over the bluff. One such automobile is a 1959 Chevy upside down at the base of the sixty foot cliff. However, the forest wildlife has picked it pretty clean.

My house was originally built as an inn and tavern in 1870. At different periods of time what is now my yard was a Oldsmobile garage and the city dump. Whenever I do any digging or even rototill I find many things of interest; from a stack of Model T windshields in their frames to 130 year old wagon parts, this whole areas is a treasure trove.

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