Just had to share this story with you.

Friend of mine in LC deals with Vettes...resto, consultation, repair...kind of does it on the side kind of thing, you know. We kid him b/c he's a large animal vet, and people ask what he does, and we say...oh, that's Harry, he's the Corvette guy. His hobby is veterinary medicine. :lol:

Anyway, he's been aquaintances with this older woman for a very long time, probably sice HS. As they went through life, she and her husband bought a new vette in '75...brand new. Ragtop, white, red leather, A/C, 4 spd, power everything, the whole nine yards. Well, she drove it for four years ('79) and parked it. It sat, it sat, and it sat. Till this day...it sat. Undriven with 55k miles and in storage at her mother's house. I think the lady was very large and well...you can imagine the rest. Anyway, Harry would make contact with her every few years and ask her to sell it to him. "No. I don't want to sell" Couple more years..."No. Don't want to sell." Well, eventually the lady went through a divorce and Harry didn't want to be rude and ask her to sell while she was going thru her divorce....so he waited yet again. The other day he is relaying this story to me and i tell him he needs a C3 vert bad and (he owns a '54, '62, and a '63 split window fuelie [sweet car] ) he needs to call this lady again and keep after her.

Today he calls me crying..."She sold it Jason, she sold it." To his competition no doubt. You got three guesses as to the selling price and the first two don't count.
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Sad story and one more missed opportunity.

 

That's the kind of story that puts me to tears

 

Ouch. I wish I could get some deals like that!

 

:eek: :eek: :eek: :smash: :crazy: :smash: :crazy: :smash: :crazy: :eek: :nonod: :nonod: :smash: :crazy: :nonod: :nonod: :sad:

 

Those just make you cry.
I thought the 69 with a big block for 8,000 I missed was bad.
As a matter of fact, I missed 2.

 

:mad :mad :mad :boxing :cuss :boxing I would strangle her.


[Modified by 71,454,4spd, 10:33 PM 2/27/2002]

 

If you tell us who bought it, I'm sure he could be taken care of :reddevil

 

Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgghhhh!!!!!
:cry :cry :cry :cry

 

You can't cry over spilt milk.....but this is a corvette!!! :cry :cry :cry

 

I hear about these deals every once in a while and half of them I just dont believe. If its too good to be true guess what :spam :nono: Doesnt just s--k to wonder if the old lady was just pullin your friends leg :lol: :lol:

 

i called about a then 10 year old 68 with 435hp tri-power. he said it was in showroom condition but didn't run 'cause the gas got old and the carbs were clogged up. Yea Right. POS. I did not even bother to go look at it.
Then i saw it in a gas station a week later, it was Burnt Orange and the nicest i've ever seen.
Oh, he wanted $2,995 :eek: