My old car, I think

[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.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

... I let him know it might be my car and that's why I'm so eager for it.

We will see.

...a mistake when you're dealing with slime imo.

Sorry 'bout the car! I wouldn't take his call either...and he will call imo

[speeder]

Originally Posted by MBAtarga

Mine Z was a '72 in pumpkin orange. Bought it in '80 when I was a Freshman at Ga Tech. Sold it around 88 for $1600 to fund the purchase of a brand spanken-new IBM PC clone - whopping 12Mhz processor and 512k of ram. Dual floppy drives!

And what's going on with the orange one on BAT - the rear hatch is proud of the roofline and rear quarters.....

That is a nice looking 240Z! At least when this pic was taken, hopefully it has survived over the years. The red car in the OP looks edgy as hell, I know the photos aren't great but it just looks like an east coast car even though no rust is present in photos.

My dad had a '72 in 1972 w the same slotted mags and a Pete Brock header and full exhaust. It was really fast for the time. It looked identical to this photo except it was metallic brown, THE hot color at the time.

[Sooner or later]

Had a 78. Headers and mini lights. Also a butt kicking stereo

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Sooner or later

Had a 78. Headers and mini lights. Also a butt kicking stereo

A Pioneer 8-track Supertuner w/ Jensen Triaxials I presume

[rattlsnak]

I've had 5 different Zs back in my youth (2 - 240s, 1- 260, 2- 280s) and what a great fun car! I have been seriously considering picking one up again but then my rational side kicks in and I realize that its just a nostalgia thing. While they are cool and I have great memories of them, I just don't think they would be as much fun or make as much sense for me to have one today.

[Sooner or later]

Originally Posted by KC911

A Pioneer 8-track Supertuner w/ Jensen Triaxials I presume

Actually it was damn good. Kenwood cassette with an amp. I had Pioneer speakers. Two in the doors and four 6x9 right behind the seats flush mounted to the deck.

[Sooner or later]

I drove the snot out of it.

There is a stretch of road east out of Memphis, Tx (356) that I took once a month or so. About 20 miles of straight nothingness. A couple of drops and climbs in that stretch. I would hammer down the entire stretch. 132 indicated on the flats. At the very end there was a big sweeping right followed by a big left. Then railroad tracks. Made for fun.

[Starless]

Remember the days that when you looked into an engine bay, you could see the ground underneath it?

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Sooner or later

Actually it was damn good. Kenwood cassette with an amp. I had Pioneer speakers. Two in the doors and four 6x9 right behind the seats flush mounted to the deck.

You WERE rockin' hard....8-track ?

Never did like flush mounts to the deck....put some Pioneer 3-ways sitting on the deck in my college car....with them new fangled cassettes...good times !

[gsxrken]

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.

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.

[flskala]

^^^^
Interesting story....
My guess is he didn't want 'you' to own it - for whatever reason.
He probably would be sicker seeing it show up houses away with you driving it.... just a guess here.

I have a buddy with a 50+ car collection. I'm talking SS camaros, vettes, you name it.
People pop in and ask him to sell all of he time. He says his favorite word is 'NO.'

[masraum]

Originally Posted by flskala

^^^^
Interesting story....
My guess up is he didn't want 'you' to own it - for whatever reason.
He probably would be sicker seeing it show up houses away with you driving it.... just a guess here.

I have a buddy with a 50+ car collection. I'm talking SS camaros, vettes, you name it.
People pop in and ask him to sell all of he time. He says his favorite word is 'NO.'

I think that in several of the stories that I've heard, it was less about that and more about that the person that got lucky showed up at the right time when the seller was in the right mood and needed the cash.