Lost cause boats

[fishinJohn]

I saw a posting online where a guy bought some property that had a lot of junk on it still and the previous owner signed off on all the junk there so the new owner posted saying free to all. I went and looked around and there were two boats on trailers, a snowmobile, and a couple snowblowers that caught my eye. However I left them all there because they looked too far gone. The boats were both fiberglass with consoles and appear to have never been stored. The snowmobile looked to be early 70's model and the snowblowers, well, I doubted I could fix them sufficiently either. Is there hope for any POS boat or snowmobile or did I make the right call?

[Sandmannd]

Probably the right call. Probably would have taken a lot of time and money to fix. If you have the time it would be a great hobby, but you want a boat you can use in a short time you probably didn't want them. I got a snow blower on the side of the road once and never got it working. Put it on the side of my road and it was gone.

[IFallsRon]

Unless you have nothing better to do than fix junk, you'll likely never get any return out of POS finds. It would depend on the investment. You could sell a boat trailer and give away the motor, but getting rid of a glass boat takes some effort.

[Down Deep]

The snowmobile may have been of some value . Unless the glass was really bad or the whole thing was a rust bucket it could be a candidate for restoration. Old snowmobiles are fast gaining favor with the vintage crowd and parts are in demand.

[shizzy]

most times they are worth more in parts then as a whole. I got an old 81 Honda CX500 that was broken from a friend last summer. it would have cost me hundreds of dollars to get it running. instead stripped some parts off it I could use for one of my projects and parted the rest out and got about $600.