I do remember a guy in the USA writing in a magazine who had bought a rare coloured 440 engined 1970 Roadrunner that was sitting in a ladies back yard, that had belonged to her dead husband. It had an impact in the front right hand corner, and was sitting there in the open, not too rusty, definitely worth saving and an easy resto. She too "would never sell", and what triggered my memory was the way she too thought people from clubs were "arrogant" for just waving fistfuls of money at her.
The guy bought the car by getting to know her first by just asking about the car casually, without mentioning buying it. He said he could supply her with some info on the car if she liked. After a couple of visits, he asked if she would consider selling, and she said now she "wasn't really sure", and had previously mentioned the uncaring car club guys with money.
The guy sealed the deal by giving her a gift he had made...he bought two plastic 1/24 models of the same type of Roadrunner, and done one as an exactly detailed diorama of her back yard with the damaged car sitting in it, and the other of it in pristine restored condition sitting in a garage. It worked, and she sold it to him for way less than the club guys were offering, but still a fair price for a slightly damaged big block Roadrunner.
There's ways around some people...not all of them...but some who might be wavering.
But then there are ****** who just will not sell no matter what and would rather see it rot into the ground than someone else own it...
