200 grills need to be saved from the scrap yard in Northern Virginia!!!!!

[Jon Tofte]

Very good truth and similar ideas that I have tried to listen to from @Dave in KC who like you knows how to get to the point and move them through his garage. I guess I need to learn how, although I currently have mostly inventory of disassembled grill parts. If I had headed this advice and learned how to hone my skills like you two guys, my wife would have less issues with my grill hobby, although she would still resent the time spent. At least it would have been a money maker rather than a money consuming hobby.

Glad to hear my Trex idea on the Genesis II grills wasn't so far off. The "frame" (really just angle-bent steel) compromise was a really sad move by Weber on an otherwise nice-looking grill that had flashes of bringing back some of the classic features of the earlier Gennys. I guess that is why I like the open cart ones with two real wheels, slats on the bottom, and even an available crimson hood.

 

[Cody Bratton]

I guess I could say I’m borderline hoarding… but my reasoning is pretty simple. Someday Weber curb finds aren’t going to be the 1,x000, silvers and golds. The easiest and best grills I think Weber ever made.

I feel the demand will always be there, but the supply (and quality of it) is dwindling, and noticeably, only in the couple years I’ve been doing it.

 

[JimV]

Yep....very true......In the short 5 years that I have been plowing through Weber flips I can clearly see the old classics getting harder and harder to find with good boxes....no pitting or holes. Frames can be fixed but even the sidewinders are showing that they are getting close to end of life due to box failures. Too many people using oven cleaners or very acidic cleaners and pressure washers and not rinsing or neutralizing thoroughly. Currently the front control Genny's still sell in a day or two but when you list a Gen II you get 20 people begging for them. So if ya wanna flip em...Gen II's are where the game is at. So far nobody wants a backyard full of 200 Weber grills.....even on a Weber forum. If I was single and had some land.........