Bill makes a good point. I am a bit reluctant to give a bit of my life to someone who will get paid telling my story.
However, I did actually get to see a fabled $300.00 1963 corvette. As the guy told me and to paraphrase.
"I was down on my luck when my car died and I was looking over the want ads. I needed cheap transportation. I saw an ad for a 1963 Chevy for $300.00. I called thinking it was a rusted Michigan car. Some old woman answered and told me that her son purchased the car and then was drafted into the army. He got killed in Vietnam and the car had been sitting ever since. He husband had died and she was moving into a retirement home. She told me the car did not start. I agreed to go over and look at it. I thought it was going to be a Chevy like an Impala or Biscayne. When I got there and house was on it's down side with a for sale sign out front. I knocked and the old lady came to the door. She said it was in the garage. I went out and opened the door. There was junk and dust all over everything, it was clear the door had not been opened in at least twenty years. I pulled back a blanket in the back of the car and wiped the name plate. It said 'Corvette'. I looked around for the 1963 junk I expected. This was the only car in the garage. I shut the door and told the lady I would take the car. I also told her not to open the garage to anyone else and I would be back in half an hour. I came back and bought the car for $300.00"
I remember this story vividly as I stood looking at the cream colored Corvette at the job site we were checking on. I had jabbed him for telling a bull$h!t story, but when I saw the car, I was amazed.
True story.
