Went to dealer. Wrote check. Drove home.

 

Wrote someone a check, done.

 

Sorry about the spelling and didn't realize I was posting on the Tec page. I fixed the spelling for you? :o

 

Had a C1 and C2, went looking for a C3, then saw a friends C4, fell in love, spent 6 mos. looking for one, the minute we drove up to the guys house my wife told my daughter, well, Dads driving home in this one.That was 9 yrs. ago.

 

That was the reason for the laugh

I could tell you were "fast typing"

 

MY wife got it for me for my birthday!

 

Sisters?

 

Some guy moved in at the end of my street, and they unloaded his stuff off of the moving van, and the next day, these guys delivered a gray corvette, and pushed it into the driveway.
it sat there for 2 weeks, with the windows cracked open, and a for sale sign in the window.
Since he lived next to the mail boxes, I asked him how much he wanted on one of the trips back from the mailbox.
He said take a look, and i looked at it for a little bit, and I said "start it up let me hear it," and he said "it doesn't run."
I asked what was wrong with it, and he said "I don't know, i'm not a mechanic."
I looked at the engine, and he still wouldn't produce a key.
I left, and went home.
The next day, he was knocking at my door, and wanting to know if I wanted it. "I said yea how much, and he said $14,000."
I said "too much for a car that doesn't run with 65,000 miles."
a week later, he was knocking at my door, and asked "what I'd give him for it, and I said "$8,000." He said "no way."
Next weekend, he knocked on my door about 9:00 sat morning, and said "if you give me $8000 before noon, it's yours."
So, after a fast shower, and getting to the bank when it opened, I got a cashier's check for $8000 and then I knocked on his door.
He helped me push it down the street to my house.
I opened the hood, and was nosing around, and pulled the dipstick. it was low. I added a quart and it was still low.
I added 5 quarts, and then checked all the other fluids.
My wife asked to hear it run, and I said it didn't run. She said "humor me, let's see what it does."
I got in and rrrrrrrrr vrooom! it started pretty good.
I went to a car show with it a couple weeks later, and some guy at the car show said sounds like you have a bad fuel pump relay.
Sure enough, I changed the relay, and it started normal.
He had the oil changed at Jiffy Lube, and the guys never tightened the drain plug, and it slowly dripped out between the time he had the oil changed in Texas, and the time I wanted to hear it run in Arizona.
Turns out, the fuel pump swtch on the oil pressure switch would have worked had there been any oil in it.
For 3 years, when he walked by my house, he always said "you know you stole that from me."
That was 11 years ago

 

several years ago, i was looking for a c4 to replace my 1983 open road race prepared camaro. i have always absolutly loved the lines of the c4 and wanted one since 1984. i have a friend here that has a zr1 and i asked him about it and then started looking for one. i flew to see several and drove to see several and learned alot of lessons the hard way. my wife did not know, but i was having a blast looking around. i found a 1991 b/b after about 9 months of looking and learning. flew to kentucky and drove it home on original tires 22 hours. i do not race it in the open road races. long story short, bought a 1986 here in amarillo, fixed its many problems, sold it, bought a 1995, also located in kentucky, off of the forum and still have it. i will run it in the next open road race in ft stockton. see ya

 

I got my car from craigslist. I traded my racecar trailer for my 85.

 

I knew you were kidding so don't worry be happy.

 

I had a '72 Chevelle, pro street with full tube chassis. 454 with Crower mechanical injection. I got tired of the car and put it up for sale on an internet site. Guy called me from Ohio and asked if I would consider a Vette as a partial trade with cash. We agreed to check each others cars out and then decide if it was a good deal for both of us. He had enough cash to put with the Vette so I traded him planning on re-selling the Vette. I had never owned one even though I had always admired them, especially the C4 body style. I brought it home cleaned it all up and took it for a drive to be sure it was mechanically sound. That was in Dec. of 1999, it's still out in my garage.

 

Me too!!
Aren't we the lucky ones bro.
Jim

 

"Hello, my name is Mike, and I am an addict"

In this order, I think:

'79 Yellow - 3 year note (sold)
'78 Yellow - Gift from my parents (sold)
'82 Metallic blue - cash $$ (sold)
'79 Red - cash $$ (sold)
'72 Ontario Orange - cash $$ (regretably sold)
'00 Mill. Yellow - Gift from parents (current)
'95 Polo Green - cash $$ (sold)
'93 Ruby - cash $$ (sold)
'94 Admiral Blue - cash $$ (current)

"and that's my story"

 

Bought my 1st Corvette in 1968 it was a 62 Fawn Gold 327-340 hp 4 speed. My father had to co-sign. I put 1/2 down $1200, and financed the rest.
The title said Chev. that is all my father noticed. I kept the car at a friends house for 1 week. When I brought it home my dad was so pissed I bought a Corvette, I said you co-signed. He wanted to return it.
It was too late. I was hooked. That was the 1st of 10.
I paid cash for the other 9.

 

Was looking for a WS6 and it caught my eye with low mileage.

 

I spent 8 years building this car lost my job and sold it to My buddy Dan


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeWCO1RwqwA

then i spent 4 years building this


i drove it 300 miles in 2 years because it got very poor gas mileage and had no A/C

so i desided to sell it and bought my car for $450 less than i sold it for

 

Turned 59 and 1/2,
Raided my IRA
Looked on the internet, found it the other side of town
Smelled the oil, checked out the weatherstrip, ran a car fax
Wrote the check and parked it in the garage
The wife said "Who's car is that?"
She loves it even though she only drove it once and calls it "His car"

 

Are your parents interested in adopting?

Last year I decided it was time to scratch a life-long itch. The C4 seemed like it would fit the bill - it was affordable and suitable for a daily driver in the summer months. I found mine on eBay, but it happened to be at a local dealership. I looked it over, took a test drive and wrote 'em a check.

 

I did some work for someone and they over extended! The car was part of the payment. I like the car but wish I would have been paid instead. Then I paid a guy to paint it and when he did he covered it with plastic to keep it dry after it was painted. Something in the plastic left marks in the paint and we'll the paint job looks horrible. The painter said he would paint it again. This was a year ago and it still sucks.

Wish I had a nicer one, but it's all I can afford.