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Yes, people do collect this sort of stuff, even wrecks like this. For many years the Amarillo Railroad Museum used to take all our great custom cars to the Oklahoma City Train Show in December and made almost no profit. We were lucky to pay our booth charges. Then, last year, we hit on the idea of selling donated material that we had no use for. Lots of this stuff is very old, parts missing, inaccurate paint schemes, etc. We sell most of it for from $1-10 depending on condition. Guess what, where we used to take home maybe a couple hundred dollars net, we netted over $4,000, yes four thousand, last year! The “junk” sells. I bet we could easily get $5 for that old beat up MoPac car.
Jerry
