who gets the old man's bronco

[SteveL]

Leave it to your dog. Whoever wants the bronco bad enough has to take care of your dog along with it.

 

[Jedhead]

ditto blubuckaroo, ditto jckkys

Our 74 was bought new by my wife’s grandmother. It was then passed on to her mother. My wife inherited it in 1999. We have 2 sons and a daughter. It’s already decided that our daughter will get it with the stipulation that it goes to our granddaughter someday.

I do have a few other Broncos my sons can fight over when I’m gone!


At least your family had some great choices to haggle over, how lucky are they!

 

[bobtail]

I like the way you think stevel.

 

[SteveL]

Some lady out here did it a few years back. She left millions to her dog or cat. I think her peeps took it to court to see if she could actually do it.

 

[5001craig]

My F-I-L is in the same situation. He added an EB for my son and they are tearing it down. Got a great deal and he's retired so he likes tinkering.

And he's not ready to stop beating the snot out of his on the dunes.

 

[El Kabong]

obviously you need two more broncos

This ^ has been my solution. Sorta. Having multiple desirable vehicles to pass out. Daughter wants & will get the 64 Falcon Sprint convertible. Son wants & will get the 70 Cyclone GT. Neither one has shown interest in the Bronco. Kinda shows how rough my poor old Bronco really is. Hopefully the grandkids...

I would throw in that whom ever it goes to, should they decided they don’t want it anymore that the other brothers get the right of first refusal.


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Good advice there ^.


Definitely decide in advance & tell them of your decision. Face the music yourself instead of letting them sort it out once you're gone (Good Lord willing that day is far away).

We lost my dad awhile back. I went into this with the understanding that people are hurting over the loss & are prone to fight over stupid stuff. The parts he told everybody about have gone smoothly. The surprises have had my 2 stupid sisters fighting about what "he really wanted" ever since. Even if that disagrees with what was left in writing. I am looking forward to the day it is all done & I can go on without having deal with them anymore. Ever. My dad would be unhappy with that, but the anger & accusations we have been put through over nothing has burned any interest I have in any sort of "family" with people who can treat us like that. 3 brothers & 1 sister are fine. The 2 other sisters have been brutal to the rest of us. If my dad had told everyone about everything I don't think we'd be here today. But my guess is that he didn't want to deal with them either.

 

[bigmuddy]

I wont have this problem as I only have one and she gets it all at this point!

She also has her own early bronco as well.

This reminds me of when my aunts passed and I am one of 6. They had a rare coin collection that I wanted and the option was we either sell it and split the profit, or one of us buy the coins and then the we split the profit. So I bought the coins and in around about way got a slight discount. Everyone was happy.

In your case, I would let them bid it out and then split the money with others if you can afford to do it that way?

My wife's grandparent were not rich by any means but they had some extra and were very generou, but they were always trying to give things away including money as they would say they would actually like to SEE us enjoy the money or stuff than be dead and not see us enjoy it.

 

[Cortez]

Have them all sign an agreement that the Bronco will rotate among them for 3 year cycles until they all reach the age of 70 then they must agree what to do with it.

 

[elan]

First of all it's a vehicle...it ain't life support.

Over 200,000 early Broncos were manufactured, they aren't rare. This is simple, compensate the others with lesser interest with an equal amount of cash. Then they can go out and buy their own Bronco, if they even want one.
It isn't like it's a '36 Bugatti Atlantic

 

[Vintagetin]

No reason they both can't share the bronco. Put both of their names on the title and tell them they need to keep it in the family when they are gone.
My brother and I have jointly owned several cars over the years. We build cars for ourselves, family, customers, and joint owned vehicles. We both have quite a few old cars of our own, but yes it's easy to jointly own a vehicle. Our wife's look at us as we are crazy sometimes. Neither of us care or worry about who is doing what with the joint owned vehicle. If he takes it somewhere this weekend, I'll drive something else. We each share insurance cost.
A relative has already put our joint names on the title of his early vette, that he has owned for over 50 years. He just told us when he is gone and we are done with it, keep it in the family.
My wife and I don't have kids, so my nieces and nephews will probably be excited (or hate it) when we are gone. Everything I have will be willed to them.

 

[blubuckaroo]

Greed breaks up a lot of families.
I feel that receiving any family heirloom is a responsibility. It's got no cash value. It belongs to the family any you're the caretaker. If you don't want the responsibility anymore it goes to another family member.

 

[valveamp]

Some interesting thoughts on how to approach this, possibly, sensitive situation. My thought is that IF there is no jealously between the brothers, for some other reason(s), and, assuming, they all want to keep it in the family and keep it maintained, a fair way to do this is to have a "short straw", or high card draw, or something similar, that is equally fair to all 3 brothers. In the end, only one will own it, but the other 2 will know that it was done fairly, without favoritism or bias. I don't think there is a perfect solution that will make everyone happy, but it can be as fair as possible. I would also put something in writing that stated my wishes were for all of them to share it and to keep it in the family.
My father in law had a very rare early 60s Ford camper van. It was the family's only transportation for many years. They really had no money, so they went on family camping vacations in the van. They all have great memories of their times together. It's my understanding that he left the van to the oldest grandson. At one time, he may have expressed an interest in restoring the van, but, today, is not interested. The van just sits, unrestored. The people in the family who would like to see it restored and have the means to do so won't touch it because the title is in someone else's name. No one will discuss getting it transferred to someone else. It won't be sold and it won't be restored. A sad situation. I think there are people in the family that would rather see the van rust into dust than see it go to someone else in the family.

 

[rjrobin2002]

Let them fight and the winner of the tournament gets it.

Me and my brothers always got along best after beating the hell out of each other.