FLORIDA. No, Ideal Classic Cars in Venice, Florida isn’t a show, museum or a private collection. It’s a dealership. Oh yeah, Cadillac 1959, Cuda 1971 or T-23 rod, everything is shiny and for sale. By Lars Krantz. Translation Ellen Kay Krantz.
A Christmas present to you maybe? Old men with hairy calves, leather cheeks and to modern ankle socks are sauntering in air conditioned delightful and mirrored in chromes from yesteryears.
It’s the middle of December. America is all about Jingle Bells, flashing lit houses and in the south, snow foam machines.
The seniors over here weren’t interested in buying problems, welding schedules, rear axle crawling or a header change. They want to open ready-to-roll presents.
The time when walking around in broken down barns, stepping in rat feces and kicking around hay has passed. The logging around your dream object across wooden floors on three wheels is a thing in the past. They don’t even want to drive the car themselves from the dealership.
They want it delivered to their address in their gated community behind steel fences and security guard where they can roll the jewel into a three-car garage and open bottled water from the pin-striped refrigerator.
They want to sit in the decorated man cave with new “vintage” plates, turn on the TV in the ceiling and look at the newcomer. They have double-worked an entire life, installed titanium hips and new eyes, bought pension and healthcare until game over and signed a life insurance so that the wife can upkeep a good standard of living after they are gone.
New times are here and they rather sit in peace, slurping spring water and look at the love of their early years. Resting eyes on the car they could only dream of in childhood, in college, during enlisting but never could buy.
If the temperature hits 82 degrees and it’s a cloud free Wednesday night they just might take it to the local car meet 5 miles away. Otherwise it just stands where it stands.
– Cheers in spring water.
Boring, yes if you are forty and energetic but also you will turn eighty and get sick and tired of weld burn marks on all your underwear.
If not before then when you get to that point, Ideal Classic Cars is perfect.
– The place where you write a check and take home your life’s dream, all in same day.
How much is it then? There were no price tags in the store?
– We don’t like to stress our customers with irrelevant disturbances, one of the salesmen Tyler Stevensson says.
You are supposed to behold the car of your dreams without screaming numbers is the plan.
The salesmen are very attentive and polite and of course the prices on selected cars are shared with Worldkustom if we so wish. We respond this politeness with not asking for 28 price figures. We settle for three just to get a lay of the land.
Cadillac 1959 with the Biarritz V in the bumper, nice interior, whole honk-ring and cruise control. 39 900 dollars.
One of those Camaros with everything on. Click on the description to the left to enhance. Price: 49 900dollars. – We do a lot of shipping to Europe, said Tyler Stevenson.
Pedal tractor above and below a pedal car without pedals and an entire two horses on those tiny wheels. USA always has a hefty amount of horse power in their cooking.
1956 Pontiac Safari with a modern spinner from the sixties. 389 and TH400.
59 900 dollars for that goodie. Worldkustom thanks for the sneak peek.
Outside was an ongoing car meet this Saturday. We will take a closer look at that in another issue.
