Things are always changing. There was a time, when I first started working for others, that you could not buy a nice original car cheap. As the years went by, I noticed that the market kept falling on originals from the '20s & '30s. I realized that the generation that remembered when "Dad" had a car like that, was going into the nursing home. The old "supply & demand" was working it's magic! When the number of interested buyers goes below the available cars, prices suffer. I expect the demand for originals to keep going down, and there aren't possibly enough museums to buy them all.

Recently I started shopping for a '49-'50 Merc. They have been popular soooo long, that finding a "solid" builder in a wrecking yard is nearly impossible. Built cars are high priced, and never the built the way my buyer wants it done. The logical alternative is to buy a good original car if possible. If we find one....it's toast!

On the subject of that '36, don't expect to find a large number of buyers for that stock chassis. Vinatage auto restorers are a dying breed.......unless it's muscle cars.