Unfortunately I can identify with this quote. Growing up in the 70s we would always pause in our baseball games to watch this one neighbor drive by in his 72 Corvette. Those cars stood apart from anything else on the road (and they still do, really). As the years went by the car was parked under a carport on four flat tires. When I would visit my moms, I’d occasionally knock on the door two houses up the road and tell him I’ll buy it. I would tell him how cool we all thought that car was and how I would be an excellent steward of it. He would say he cant sell it- it’s a part of my youth etc. I got that. This went on no joke for about 25 years, from the late 80s until just recently. I never pushed him out of fondness and respect; he was a WW2 fighter pilot and well into his eighties maybe nineties. But about 3 years ago I dropped in on my moms and the corvette was gone. Heartsick, I knocked on his door again and he couldn’t look me in the eye- he gets around to confessing that he sold it for- get this- $3,000 to a stranger. 72 454 big block 4 speed original owner bone stock.
Someone screwed an old man. And my lesson, as if I didn’t know it already but here it is again, is “cash is king”. I never waved cash in his face, even though with one nod of his head I would have been back with $15k within the hour and would have owned the first car that made an impression on me.
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Originally Posted by masraum
People can be morons. Unfortunately, it looks like you ran into one of those. We've heard the stories here about pelicanites pursuing some numbnut that's "going to restore" a car sitting in a field someday. The car is sitting there in the elements rotting. And the price that they're asking is astronomical. Some of the Pelicanites pursue them for years until finally one day the Pelicanite is told that the guy eventually realized nothing was going to happen and sold the car for 1/10th of what he'd been telling the Pelicanite all of these years. It sucks that it's your car though. My guess is that the 1st guy didn't want it for the price and tried to get the price down. Now the guy is trying to get your offer up.
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