For Sale ...... Turn Key Business ...... For Sale

A unique business opportunity.  CadillacVille.  After 35 years in business, dbaer says it is time to pass the torch to another Cadillac enthusiast.

Large unique inventory.

What are you buying?

•   Inventory.  Inventory.  Inventory.  An 'impossible to replace or duplicate' inventory.  Inventory that has been accumulating for more than 20 years.
•   D.Baer's Cadillacville has specialized in original, unique, hard to find, 1949 to 1985 parts.  The main source of which come from the more than 1,300 Cadillacs on hand.
•   A very productive, well-liked Web Site, that Cadillac people from all over the world have at their fingertips.  It has been an on going project since 1998 that keeps growing and growing.  It has been designed to be easily updated and expanded.
•   An established, reputable business,  Cadillacville is well known among Cadillac aficionados. An ongoing business that is receiving and shipping orders daily.  The first day you take over you are conducting business.
•    Because we are so well established, other Cadillac parts suppliers refer customers.
•   We have been a regional source for 'retiring' Cadillacs for over 20 years.  People and other wrecking yards call us regularly to dispose of their Cadillacs.  Thus you are able to maintain an inventory of the unique, sought after parts that are not available through other means, such as a wholesale warehouse.

Why I like this business.

•    I've always liked stories about someone finding an object at a garage sale for $2.00 and then later discover it to be a valuable collectors item that resales for several thousand dollars at Christie's auction. So, I like finding the right car for a couple hundred dollars, then prospecting for the choice pieces that are worth several hundred to a few thousand dollars and still having the whole rest of the car with more parts that will eventually sell for perhaps several additional thousand dollars.  Somebody said, "Buy low, sell high", I like that line of thinking.
•   I get to talk to a lot of very interesting people from all over the US and many foreign countries.
•   There isn't the problem of inventory obsolescence.  If it sits a few years, it usually increases in value, sometimes quite a bit.
•   Because the business is mail order only, my wife and I have been able to work together right from our home on a nice 46 acre farm with woods, the 15 acre field of Cadillacs, plus additional fields.

Is there room for growth?

•   Yes!
•   Expand 'Years' of Cadillacs into the 1990's and beyond.
•    Reproduction and Rebuilt parts.
•   Expand into other car makes. Chevy, Mopar, Mustangs, or your choice.
    Plenty of room for more cars.
•   Expand into restoration and sales of cars.
•   I'm to retirement age, so working a simpler program these days. 
    A new, younger, energetic owner could take this to a higher level.

Can the business be moved?

•   Yes it can...but at what expense, as opposed to the buyer of the business moving to this location which is ideally located for long term storage and accumulation of acres, and acres of collector cars and parts.
•   The most efficient way to operate this type of business (in regards to time, effort & expense) is to have the cost effective space to be able to bring in the right cars as they become available.  Then, remove the parts as they are sold, which in most cases continues over a period of many years.  I still have the first car purchased for the parts business in 1983...a 1966 Sedan deVille.
•   Location is near I-5 between Seattle, WA and Portland, OR.  Just off I-5 but yet in a rural, low cost area, with established zoning for this purpose.

Why mail order only?

•    Good marketing takes the product directly from the producer to where there is the best price demand, anywhere in the world, so the transaction isn't limited by location of seller or buyer.
•    Expenses are lower.
•    Insurance cost is much lower.
•    Security at it's best.

Prices and terms.

Please Note

This transaction will require a minimum of

$300,000 cash.

Enthusiasm is fine but refrain from calling if that requirement can't be met.

Inquiries backed with cash only please.

Thank You

•   One simple determination of the value of the business is scrap metal prices.  1,300 old Cadillacs is over 3,000 tons.  At the current scrap metal prices, it equals approximately $250,000.00 and probably rising.  There is a big demand for scrap metal these days. Buyer would have the option of recovering part of their investment by selling for scrap, cars that are already mostly parted out.

•   In addition to the scrap value is hundreds of thousands of dollars of parts.

•   Equipment, fixtures, fork lift, storage trailers, etc.

•   I haven't made a practice of scrapping cars because with plenty of room, it is most cost effective to let the car wait in place.  Trying to remove all the good marketable parts before they are needed is time consuming and a storage problem.

•   I would prefer to see this business carry on with an enthusiastic new owner.  We would be happy to lease to the new owner.

•    Lock, stock and barrel price $329,000.00.

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Is the real estate available?

•  Yes. As a seperate transaction after the buisiness is sold.

•  Price: Inquire.

•  All 46 acres zoned Industrial.

Aerial picture taken in early 1990.
Gravel was spread and we started moving in Cadillacs.