If no one buys it, it will get destroyed.
Looking foran artistry pieceto elevate your one thousand ? May I interest you in a Seth of oldtraincars ? That will be $ 250,000 , please and thank you .
If you call up I ’m joke , I ’m not . Cordelia Junction Antique Mall ’s iconic gearing elevator car — the ones that are mint unripened and sit in a quarrel in front of the sure-enough vintage shopping centre — are now up for sale after the mall closed shop for expert . There are 10 of them , and if you do n’t want to see these piece ofSan Francisco historyget destroyed and disposed of , you’re able to hand over a check for $ 250,000 for all 10 or $ 50,000 per car and carry through them from an unfortunate destiny , SFGatereports .
But do n’t get it twisted — Ricky Vij , the current place owner since 2023 , does n’t need to see them get destroyed to the head that , ideally , he ’d even be willing to give them away for free . The problem with that , however , is the sort of potential buyers that " free train cars " would attract .
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" Giving them off for free is an option , but a fortune of masses want them for the combat value , " Vij tell Thrillist . " We have already turned down a lot of offers of mass who will make up quite a bit for them just to take them and trash them . This is because they are very heavy and contain a lot of blade . give them away for free will just pull in more of this crowd . "
Vij bring that he ’s also been in feeling with railway museums , but they ’re find space - related problems due to the car ' size . " What we are try out to do is find a effective plate for them so that they do n’t get scrapped , " explain Vij .
Vintage aficionados and tourists have long consort the wagon train cars with the famed vintage shopping pip in Fairfield . Some date back to the 1920s ; you could n’t miss them because of their antique design and characteristic .
Photo courtesy of Ricky Vij
Now Vij is seek to sell all of them on Facebook Marketplace , SFGatereports . allot to Vij , the listing meet 30,000 views in 24 hours , but although a few possible buyer have strive out , nobody has made an prescribed purchase yet .
If you ’re ready to put down an go , you could do soright here on their Marketplace listing .
