Blonde driver causes $1,000,000 in damage

[stuwee]

Blonde joke time fellers, http://autos.yahoo.com/news/million-dol ... ender.html

 

[speakerman1]

Stuwee did you read about the classics? I helped rebuild a friends 911. Well he had bought some parts and he wanted to sell them. Their was a Porsche swap meet, yard sale or whatever you wanted to call it. We went. I fell in love with a maroon 912. It had 50 some thousand original miles on it. They wanted 6000.00. I had just bought a cherry 76 Datsun 260Z. It had 102,000 on it. If I had waited I would have bought the Porsche. Some things just don't go the right way or maybe they do. That Z was so fun to drive. It could do 120 all day long; but about 125 the points started to float. I ran it that way alot. I changed every U-joint on it. Changed the alt. and the fuel pump and timing chain gasket. I loved that car. I have been a motor head since I was 10 and started building models. We would go down the Interstate and I could tell you every car by their tail lights. My Dad would be driving. Just shaking his head and asking how does he do that. They didn't get me to much.

Larry

 

[stuwee]

I was the same, except Dad knew more than me, so he'd catch me out a couple times, it was easier in the old days to get the year and make from the rearends, since they changed almost yearly. Remember Caddys would change the front and back every other year after '61, just slightly tho, first the front would change, then the next year the rear, that would be similair, then change the front etc...

You should've got the Porsche 912, it was a 4-cylinder, had less power than the 911, but was better balanced, increadible handling on those, they used to sell very cheap, because people went, Bah it's a VW in the back, if they'd taken the time to really drive one on a twisty road tho I almost bought a Z when I first moved down here, but it was from NY and was a little rusty. I looked hard at a '67 Cougar with a special order 351 Cleveland, fully documented. The seller painted Mercedes for a living, this baby had 10 coats of hand rubbed Wimbelton White, not a hint of 'orange peel' anywhere, Dark Red broquade interior, for only $3,500 Firm. Dad wouldn't loan me the extra $500 I needed for just another old car. He almost died that night !! I saw the same car sell at Barrett-Jackson 3 years later for $27,000 and it had a couple chips in the paint, you can't touch up a muti-coat hand rubbed paint job properly, it never looks right. That was 'The One That Got Away' for me

 

[speakerman1]

I guess the one that got away was a 65 GTO 389 tri-power plus he had the single set up. He wanted 300.00 for it. I told my Mom about it. So we went and looked at it. It had the 4 speed also. Well she wanted to drive it. It ran great. She was scratching every gear. So we go back. On the way I'm smiling. I'm going to get this car.

So we get back and I climb out of the car digging for my wallet. I never pulled 300.00 out so fast in my life. I'm holding the money the guy looks at my Mom and says well. She looks at him and I quote. Nice car; but I love my son and I want him to live. Thanks but no thanks. My jaw dropped I was about to tear up. I looked at her and said I have the money right here. She said NO. I knew it was over.

Thats the one that got away.

Larry

 

[orange]

Blonde joke time fellers, http://autos.yahoo.com/news/million-dol ... ender.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It's worse than that, the car was blonde too.

 

[stuwee]

That would've been noted in the paper the next day as "The neighbors called him such a nice, pleasant young man, who loved his mother very, very much, it must have been a crime of passion". I almost slipped my dad a little something extra in his scotch that night too! Man was I pissed