Poor Vettes out East
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From: San Diego CA
Poor Vettes out East
I'm visiting for Christmas with my family over here in Pasadena MD. They have a beautiful house blocks away from the Magathy River. While walking the 2 dogs I saw a house with several cars in the driverway. 67 Nova SS, 70 Barracuda AAR, and a 69 Vette coupe under some blue tarp and upon closer examination it looks to be a BB coupe. Poor thing has rust all over it's rally rims (exposed from under the tarp) with the front grills all ripped up with rusted bubbled chrome strips. I hate to imagine what the rest of the car looks like. If money was better I'd save this girl and have her shipped home to San Diego where she could get the attention she deserves.
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From: FL
Originally Posted by Cali,68,L-79
Yeah the cuda was nice. It looked to be driven daily or reguraly. Aside from paint and rechrome it was the best one.
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In New Bern NC, there's a guy with a yard full of cars. 3 of them happen to be Corvettes. One is a 69 vert, the other two are coupes, one is a 70 and the other a 71. All three are BB's with 4spds and matching numbers. I wandered in one day and asked the guy if he was interested in selling and he said no. I asked him if I could take a closer look and he reluctantly agreed. Upon closer inspection, they were all rusting away and basically disintegrating. Very sad and very painful. I went back inside to get the rest of the sstory and he said he had them since he was a teenager. I realized they had sentimental value and in that case, there was no way he was gonna sell. Very sad and very painful.
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St. Jude Donor '03 thru '26
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Two blocks from me is a 69 convet that sits out in the weather summer and all winter. Doesn't run and the owner won't sell it, I'll never understand why people let these beautiful marina blue vette sit and rot to death?
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From: Canberra AUSTRALIA
St. Jude Donor '05-'06
These stories make me cry to sleep at night.
They are always the same. CF guys find a (once) beautiful car sitting in a driveway/barn/yard slowly rusting away. The owners either want a ridiculous amount of money for them or won't sell because they lost their vir##$ity in them or something like that.
The only approach I have heard that may work is to tell them how much you would love that car and that after it is rebuilt you will bring it back and let them go for a ride in the passenger seat when it is restored. Only works if you are local but it may sway a few people. If not then just wait them out.
In ten years time there will be an estate sale and you will get an even rustier car for even less but you will need a new frame to put in those cars as they will be too far gone (if they aren't already).
There is a guy near me with a 66 BB VERT sitting under a tree covered in leaves. Friends have approached him and he threatens to shoot them if they come back on his property. What a waste!
They are always the same. CF guys find a (once) beautiful car sitting in a driveway/barn/yard slowly rusting away. The owners either want a ridiculous amount of money for them or won't sell because they lost their vir##$ity in them or something like that.
The only approach I have heard that may work is to tell them how much you would love that car and that after it is rebuilt you will bring it back and let them go for a ride in the passenger seat when it is restored. Only works if you are local but it may sway a few people. If not then just wait them out.
In ten years time there will be an estate sale and you will get an even rustier car for even less but you will need a new frame to put in those cars as they will be too far gone (if they aren't already).
There is a guy near me with a 66 BB VERT sitting under a tree covered in leaves. Friends have approached him and he threatens to shoot them if they come back on his property. What a waste!
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From: State of Confusion
Originally Posted by 1Cool80
I know my car is just an '80 L-48 but without a garage to keep it in, I don't think I could own a Vette.
There is a back-road near my house, where I've lived for 17+ years now:
parked along a road-sde garage sits what looks like an un-covered '78 Silver Anniversary Issue (Gray-over-Charcoal).
All the 'Corvette-guys' in my hometown know where the car sits, and we all talk about it:
some have spoken to the owner about buying it, but he isn't interested in selling.
In all these years, I've only ever driven-past and NOT seen the car sitting there:
the very next day, it was parked there again, with brand-new 'sticker' tires on it, and it has sat there ever-since.....
