Finally found my first Vette
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Burning Brakes
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Finally found my first Vette
As some of you will remember, I flew down to Florida last week to pick up a 2001 Vert from a dealer that I bought from on ebay. Turned out the dealer was employing pathological liars, and the car was grossly misrepresented. I passed on the car, got my deposit back, and resumed the search anew.
Kept looking at autotrader.com and the forum 'for sale' areas here, but the ones I found were always either too high mileage, too high in price, or the wrong color or the wrong tranny. (I wanted a M6). Well, tonight I checked back on a 2000 Victory Red Vert with tan top that I'd been watching on ebay. I put in a cursory bid to test the waters, and viola! became high bidder and just cleared his reserve price.
Kept watching as the time drew down, and got a little nervous, but lo and behold, I won the auction on a 2000 Vert with only 18K miles. Has the tan top and interior, with nice-looking seat covers he put on also. Spoke to him on the phone already, and he seems like a pretty decent guy. I'm flying up to NY next tuesday or wednesday to pick it up. (Oh, and the carfax was clean, and the car has the GM extended warranty until 2009.) I'm stoked! My very first Corvette at last! Here's the link to the ebay page, if anyone wants to see it. Wish me luck everyone, hope this road-trip turns out better than my last one!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...127892125&rd=1
Kept looking at autotrader.com and the forum 'for sale' areas here, but the ones I found were always either too high mileage, too high in price, or the wrong color or the wrong tranny. (I wanted a M6). Well, tonight I checked back on a 2000 Victory Red Vert with tan top that I'd been watching on ebay. I put in a cursory bid to test the waters, and viola! became high bidder and just cleared his reserve price.
Kept watching as the time drew down, and got a little nervous, but lo and behold, I won the auction on a 2000 Vert with only 18K miles. Has the tan top and interior, with nice-looking seat covers he put on also. Spoke to him on the phone already, and he seems like a pretty decent guy. I'm flying up to NY next tuesday or wednesday to pick it up. (Oh, and the carfax was clean, and the car has the GM extended warranty until 2009.) I'm stoked! My very first Corvette at last! Here's the link to the ebay page, if anyone wants to see it. Wish me luck everyone, hope this road-trip turns out better than my last one!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...127892125&rd=1
Last edited by Blue666's; Jul 17, 2007 at 09:50 PM. Reason: forgot ebay link
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As some of you will remember, I flew down to Florida last week to pick up a 2001 Vert from a dealer that I bought from on ebay. Turned out the dealer was employing pathological liars, and the car was grossly misrepresented. I passed on the car, got my deposit back, and resumed the search anew.
Kept looking at autotrader.com and the forum 'for sale' areas here, but the ones I found were always either too high mileage, too high in price, or the wrong color or the wrong tranny. (I wanted a M6). Well, tonight I checked back on a 2000 Victory Red Vert with tan top that I'd been watching on ebay. I put in a cursory bid to test the waters, and viola! became high bidder and just cleared his reserve price.
Kept watching as the time drew down, and got a little nervous, but lo and behold, I won the auction on a 2000 Vert with only 18K miles. Has the tan top and interior, with nice-looking seat covers he put on also. Spoke to him on the phone already, and he seems like a pretty decent guy. I'm flying up to NY next tuesday or wednesday to pick it up. (Oh, and the carfax was clean, and the car has the GM extended warranty until 2009.) I'm stoked! My very first Corvette at last! Here's the link to the ebay page, if anyone wants to see it. Wish me luck everyone, hope this road-trip turns out better than my last one!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...127892125&rd=1
Kept looking at autotrader.com and the forum 'for sale' areas here, but the ones I found were always either too high mileage, too high in price, or the wrong color or the wrong tranny. (I wanted a M6). Well, tonight I checked back on a 2000 Victory Red Vert with tan top that I'd been watching on ebay. I put in a cursory bid to test the waters, and viola! became high bidder and just cleared his reserve price.
Kept watching as the time drew down, and got a little nervous, but lo and behold, I won the auction on a 2000 Vert with only 18K miles. Has the tan top and interior, with nice-looking seat covers he put on also. Spoke to him on the phone already, and he seems like a pretty decent guy. I'm flying up to NY next tuesday or wednesday to pick it up. (Oh, and the carfax was clean, and the car has the GM extended warranty until 2009.) I'm stoked! My very first Corvette at last! Here's the link to the ebay page, if anyone wants to see it. Wish me luck everyone, hope this road-trip turns out better than my last one!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...127892125&rd=1
Congrats! mang had mine four days and I love it more every day!
Post pics ASAP
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Congrats!!! Our first Corvette was a 1992 Vert with 29000 miles on it. We bought it on Ebay, it was in Phoenix AZ. My mom and sister live in Tucson, so we flew to Phoenix, picked up the car and visited my mom and sister. The trip home was flawless! My wife and I will always cherish that trip. After going to Funfest two years ago my wife had a hankering for a 2003 AE vert. I shopped for about a month and found a low mileage one in Michigan. This time we drove and picked up her new car. Take lots of pictures of your journey home. And please have a safe trip. David 
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St. Jude Donor '20
As some of you will remember, I flew down to Florida last week to pick up a 2001 Vert from a dealer that I bought from on ebay. Turned out the dealer was employing pathological liars, and the car was grossly misrepresented. I passed on the car, got my deposit back, and resumed the search anew.
Kept looking at autotrader.com and the forum 'for sale' areas here, but the ones I found were always either too high mileage, too high in price, or the wrong color or the wrong tranny. (I wanted a M6). Well, tonight I checked back on a 2000 Victory Red Vert with tan top that I'd been watching on ebay. I put in a cursory bid to test the waters, and viola! became high bidder and just cleared his reserve price.
Kept watching as the time drew down, and got a little nervous, but lo and behold, I won the auction on a 2000 Vert with only 18K miles. Has the tan top and interior, with nice-looking seat covers he put on also. Spoke to him on the phone already, and he seems like a pretty decent guy. I'm flying up to NY next tuesday or wednesday to pick it up. (Oh, and the carfax was clean, and the car has the GM extended warranty until 2009.) I'm stoked! My very first Corvette at last! Here's the link to the ebay page, if anyone wants to see it. Wish me luck everyone, hope this road-trip turns out better than my last one!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...127892125&rd=1
Kept looking at autotrader.com and the forum 'for sale' areas here, but the ones I found were always either too high mileage, too high in price, or the wrong color or the wrong tranny. (I wanted a M6). Well, tonight I checked back on a 2000 Victory Red Vert with tan top that I'd been watching on ebay. I put in a cursory bid to test the waters, and viola! became high bidder and just cleared his reserve price.
Kept watching as the time drew down, and got a little nervous, but lo and behold, I won the auction on a 2000 Vert with only 18K miles. Has the tan top and interior, with nice-looking seat covers he put on also. Spoke to him on the phone already, and he seems like a pretty decent guy. I'm flying up to NY next tuesday or wednesday to pick it up. (Oh, and the carfax was clean, and the car has the GM extended warranty until 2009.) I'm stoked! My very first Corvette at last! Here's the link to the ebay page, if anyone wants to see it. Wish me luck everyone, hope this road-trip turns out better than my last one!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...127892125&rd=1
Looks like you've done well on the car and the price. You'll remember this feeling for a long time. Best of luck and welcome to the group.
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Congrats. Looks like a very nice car.
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Car looks very nice, and I have to agree that the color is most likely Magnetic Red Metallic. Make sure you take a pic when the guy hands over the keys....that was my one regret when I bought my car. I didn't capture one of the most exciting moments of my life photographically (can't say on film anymore).
Best of luck and may you have miles and miles of smiles on the trip home!!
