Help, I'm backslidin'!!!!!
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Melting Slicks
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From: Apex NC
Help, I'm backslidin'!!!!!
It's happened again fellas. Just when I think I've got this addiction licked, I fall off the wagon and backslide again. No, not drugs or alcohol, it's much worse. Another Corvette has caught my eye.
She's a really purdy midyear coupe. Nice and original, and would make a great NCRS judging candidate. That's the side of the fence I'm gravitating toward these days at least. The car is in pretty good shape, needs lots of cosmetics and minor mechanical attention, but nothing on the order of what the '69 needed when I got it.
In order to swing it, I'd have to sell the '69. Plus now ain't the best time to eat into cash reserves for a frivolous purchase, given the job market and overall economy. But I can't get it off my mind. I've already been through the debate over getting rid of a car that I'm very familiar with and jumping into an unknown. Can y'all talk some sense into me?!
Shannon
[Modified by sb69coupe, 11:13 AM 8/13/2002]
She's a really purdy midyear coupe. Nice and original, and would make a great NCRS judging candidate. That's the side of the fence I'm gravitating toward these days at least. The car is in pretty good shape, needs lots of cosmetics and minor mechanical attention, but nothing on the order of what the '69 needed when I got it.
In order to swing it, I'd have to sell the '69. Plus now ain't the best time to eat into cash reserves for a frivolous purchase, given the job market and overall economy. But I can't get it off my mind. I've already been through the debate over getting rid of a car that I'm very familiar with and jumping into an unknown. Can y'all talk some sense into me?!
Shannon
[Modified by sb69coupe, 11:13 AM 8/13/2002]
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Melting Slicks
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From: Apex NC
Re: Help, I'm backslidin'!!!!! (Markm10431)
The midyear is probably mid-20's. I hope I could get around $14k for the '69, which is just a few $k under what I've got into it. If I crunch the numbers it doesn't make sense to do it, but emotions are dictating things at this point......
Maybe I need a weekend-long drunk to purge these evil thoughts from my mind!? :cheers:
Maybe I need a weekend-long drunk to purge these evil thoughts from my mind!? :cheers:
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Re: Help, I'm backslidin'!!!!! (Alwyn678)
Hmmm That is always the problem. Should I or shouldn't I. Can't help you there but step back for a while and really think about it. I have thought about selling mine many times but with all the work and money in it I always come back to keeping it. Not that it was the right decision but I always come back. :crazy:
Melting Slicks
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Re: Help, I'm backslidin'!!!!! (sb69coupe)
For me it would depend on which midyear and how long you have had the 69. I've had my 69 since I was in high school, 1973. Too many memories and too much sentimental attachment to consider letting go. The ZO6 will go before the 69. But otherwise if the midyear has the disc brakes, a good performance engine and is in reasonably good shape, I probably couldn't resist. They are beautiful cars and the restored ones are as rare as hens teeth on the street.
Chuck
p.s. Don't tell 67 Heaven I said this. I'm still trying to get him to admit that C2's are second fiddle in all respects to C3's :smash:
Chuck
p.s. Don't tell 67 Heaven I said this. I'm still trying to get him to admit that C2's are second fiddle in all respects to C3's :smash:
Melting Slicks
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Re: Help, I'm backslidin'!!!!! (Alwyn678)
If you got the cash buy..............You can sell it if you need to
That's the nice thing about these cars--your initial invertment is always there and pretty easily recoverable. Of course, anything you do to it after you get it is less recoverable. Kinda like real estate. 'course, like real estate, it's possible (though not likely), the bottom could temporarily fall out of the market and you'll have trouble moving it.
JB
[Modified by JB, 12:07 PM 8/13/2002]
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