Odd thought - yall ever rent out a car for people to do a wedding exit or something?
We...well YALL, have some awesome stuff on here of varying types etc, I bet there's lots of people who want something cool to drive away in. Could we make money offering that service?
Thoughts? Opinions? Experiences?
I would love too!! Just not a huge demand for a 200K mile, beat-to-pulp, rallycross car. So if anyone want to use RallyTrash as your wedding carriage, I'll work a deal for GRMers.
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I feel you
I was thinking about my dad's 61 ventte or how I thought it wouldve been cool to take some engagement photos of us in the back/on the tailgate of my newly-aquired Land Cruiser.
If I think an 80s SUV would be cool, maybe someone else would too.
Or the same for some guy and his gal posing and driving away in a first gen corvette.
I think like any rental car, you'd have to be emtionally divested from the car, with suitable POST rental inspection and penalties in place. People do stupid stuff at weddings.
A good friend of mine used his '71 Super Beetle convertible that he'd restored from 14yrs old to 18 yrs old, as his an his new wife's get-away car. Days after wedding, he was wondering why the top didn't close well and doors seemed to hang up. His entire extended family decided to ALL pile into / onto the VW "for some cute photos" and royally tweaked it. Multiple many-hundreds-pounds family members sitting ON the top, ON the fenders, ON the edges of the doors, etc. How many of us have loaned a car to a friend, and it comes back in a different condition than lent?
Or, look to the silly Instagram photos - so many of people sitting on the hood / roof / trunk of a car, standing on the seats up through the sunroof, etc.
Aside from writing the contract in a way to protect your car, also consider the renters. Cool Old Car sounds fun, until Mr. Only Driven Modern Stuff needs the brakes and - hey, these are neither vacuum boosted nor ABS - and into traffic he goes. Or, the "it's character" niggles an owner deals with (oh, the driver's door always pops open on bumpy right handers) lead to an incident. You'd need suitable insurance to cover your bases if a renter is injured / killed.
Then, you will likely need to wrap the whole shooting match in an LLC or similar company structure, transfer ownership to LLC, set up insurance for the business, work with a lawyer to set up company / contracts, and whatever state-specific fun there is to be a Rental Car Company.
Maybe just list your car on Turo? I'm not sure how much protections they have in place for the car owner when things go poorly.
There's actually a wedding venue by me that does this exact thing. They seem to have a little bit of everything. I've glimpsed '20s fords, '60s triumphs, and modern hypercars in their stable. Seems they got a car for any theme you're going for.
No weddings, but it was fun showing up at a 4 year old's birthday party to give him a ride in the i8!
I’ve never done it but the model may be a chauffeured ride for $X.
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