How would you go about finding out if something is for sale.......

Im sure a lot of us minitruckers out there have done this, so how do you go about it. Youre out for a nice sunday afternoon ride and you notice a great project sitting behind someones house or barn or in a field. how would you go about find out if it can be bought? aside from going up the drive way to ask because the house sits far off the road. (would you write a letter or try to make a phone call, is what im getting at)

yup. walk up to the door and ask. alot of people just want to get rid of stuff. it never hurts to ask.

yea there is a taco in town full phantom shaved static drop'i think or on blocks" the one time i stoped by no one was there but i know for sure they prob not gonna sell it just cause i want it

That's how I scored My Datsun 620. Place that sales campers had it sitting there with flat tires on the side of the lot. Walked in and asked the owner. He died that night, and 2 weeks later I asked his wife and she sold it to me.

if no one is home, leave a note!

---------------------------------------------Originally posted by bagged85if no one is home, leave a note!---------------------------------------------If no one is home....... just take it

---------------------------------------------Originally posted by KAOSSThat's how I scored My Datsun 620. Place that sales campers had it sitting there with flat tires on the side of the lot. Walked in and asked the owner. He died that night, and 2 weeks later I asked his wife and she sold it to me. --------------------------------------------- You killed someone for a Datsun?!?

haha you guys are funny. i got my 93 nissan that way also. seen it in a field with a bunch of other junkers, walked up to the house and asked if they wanted to get rid of it.

---------------------------------------------Originally posted by HaVoC1---------------------------------------------Originally posted by KAOSSThat's how I scored My Datsun 620. Place that sales campers had it sitting there with flat tires on the side of the lot. Walked in and asked the owner. He died that night, and 2 weeks later I asked his wife and she sold it to me. ---------------------------------------------You killed someone for a Datsun?!?--------------------------------------------- I went in there to ask about it and he told me $800 and his son had done a little bit of work to it and it ran, but needed tires. So i went outside and looked it over real good, and came back in and he was sitting as his desk with his face in his hands. I told him that I would think about it and get back to him. He said in a real shakey voice that I'll never forget " I can't see you son, I just can't see you!" By this time, his wife and son was in the office with us, and told me that he wasn't feeling to well. No big deal I told them and I would come back later. I decided to go back the next day to try to talk him down a little on the truck. The place was closed for the next two weeks.  He died of a stroke the night that I had talked to him about buying the Datsun. I talked to his wife about it after they reopened, and told her that he wanted $800 for it but I didn't want to give that for it. She said How about $425? I gave her the cash, and the truck was mine! My buddy was super mad about it, because about a month earlier he went in and the old man told him something like $1500 for it. So the joke is I knocked off the old man and ripped off his wife.