[GH85Carrera]

One of my "friends of a friend" always wanted a "ground pounding" car. He found a C3 Vette project car in his neighborhood. Someone had already transplanted a 454 with aluminum heads and high compression pistons and a hot can into the car, but the interior looked like a homeless person lived in it. He cleaned up the interior, and put some better brakes on it, and other tweaks to make it ready to go. It was a tire smoking monster. He never could get it run like it really should. The carburetor was over jetted, and the transmission had issues.

He finally had the itch scratched, and put it up for sale and some other 40 years old dude was all excited to get it and pour more money into it.

Back in 1979 I lived in duplex. There was a couple next door that was in their 20s. His parents evidently had a lot of money, and he got a 1978 Indy pace car Vette as his daily driver. One day on the back porch we were chatting and he mentioned he had to pay $500 per MONTH for insurance. I was at a couple hundred per year for my 914 and wondered how anyone could pay as much for insurance as their rent payment. I did not have rich parents and I missed out on that lifestyle.