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Corvette
General Corvette Discussion
How My 'Vette Found Me
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<blockquote data-quote="buckhorn76" data-source="post: 36547" data-attributes="member: 1441"><p>nice story with a happy ending there xlr8r ! good idea for a thread too <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> i think you are right on the money about the car sometimes finding you. i have been a car fanatic from a very early age. i have fond memories of when i was a little kid being a go'fer for my cousins when they were working on their flathead fords and mercs. i also discovered drag racing at an early age, every nickle i could scrape together went into the hot rods. unfortunately i also discovered that the banks had so much money that they were just loaning it out to people !!!!! well anyway i had to give up racing and concentrate on other things. the last " nice " car i had, a 75 trans am, ended up having to go tail-eyes down the road 31 years ago. driving became a chore instead of a pleasure, cruise nights and shows were nice but always left me feeling down afterwards. i had no place to properly store or work on a car and it was killing me. finally i could'nt take it anymore and said this is nuts i've gotta do something!! there was a 49 ford coupe that found me, a street legal race car , tube frame, cage , ladder bar rear, big block chev, damn near bought it. i just could'nt do it without a proper shop, trailer, etc. about the same time a friend was doing a major culling of the herd in his shop. he had a white 76 sitting in there that had been in there for years the plates on it were from 95. the car was in reasonable shape although needing paint, had never been hit. one day out of the blue i saw he had listed it on the local kijiji, yup that ol' shark was saying " here i am dummy ". i phoned him up and said ok what do you really want for it ? we agreed on 6800 bucks and i was back in the game. he's a good pal and lets me use his shop and gives me winter storage too. whew, that was long winded, i hope i didn't put anybody to sleep !!!! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> doug.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buckhorn76, post: 36547, member: 1441"] nice story with a happy ending there xlr8r ! good idea for a thread too :D i think you are right on the money about the car sometimes finding you. i have been a car fanatic from a very early age. i have fond memories of when i was a little kid being a go'fer for my cousins when they were working on their flathead fords and mercs. i also discovered drag racing at an early age, every nickle i could scrape together went into the hot rods. unfortunately i also discovered that the banks had so much money that they were just loaning it out to people !!!!! well anyway i had to give up racing and concentrate on other things. the last " nice " car i had, a 75 trans am, ended up having to go tail-eyes down the road 31 years ago. driving became a chore instead of a pleasure, cruise nights and shows were nice but always left me feeling down afterwards. i had no place to properly store or work on a car and it was killing me. finally i could'nt take it anymore and said this is nuts i've gotta do something!! there was a 49 ford coupe that found me, a street legal race car , tube frame, cage , ladder bar rear, big block chev, damn near bought it. i just could'nt do it without a proper shop, trailer, etc. about the same time a friend was doing a major culling of the herd in his shop. he had a white 76 sitting in there that had been in there for years the plates on it were from 95. the car was in reasonable shape although needing paint, had never been hit. one day out of the blue i saw he had listed it on the local kijiji, yup that ol' shark was saying " here i am dummy ". i phoned him up and said ok what do you really want for it ? we agreed on 6800 bucks and i was back in the game. he's a good pal and lets me use his shop and gives me winter storage too. whew, that was long winded, i hope i didn't put anybody to sleep !!!! :D doug. [/QUOTE]
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