When I sold my cherry '55 Chevy to a guy I knew back in the late 80's, it
"dissappeared" from his possession within two weeks. He got it back about a
week later but without the back seat and Truspoke wire wheels I had on it.
He managed to get the exact dollar figure from the insurance company that
he paid me for it AND he also got to keep the car somehow. Next time I saw
it, it had cigarette burns in the upholstery and dents all along the
passenger side of the car. It really bummed me out to see this perfect
specimen I had for 10 years get trashed in only a few months. The guy was
from New York... I'll say no more.
Gerard
At 5:23 PM -0400 7/25/00, conan@ralvm8.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
>>> Oh boy, a chance to tell my Shelby story.
>
> :-) Shall I tell my other one? ;-)
>
> Sounds suspiciously like the owner of the one you found wanted some free
>money from an insurance company. ;-) Would think the junkyard owner would
>almost have to have been in cahoots to make it work.
>
> Back around 1975 when I had my first Mustang there appeared in the local
>paper an ad for a '67 Shelby for $500. Unfortunately I didn't see the ad
>'til the second day. First caller had bought it (duh!); but, the old lady
>on the phone did have this old Chevy Nova also for sale. Seems her son
>had left both cars in her back yard too long to suit her.
> A couple of weeks later I was at the local Ford dealer having some work
>done on my plain '67 Mustang and told the service writer about the Shelby.
>He said, "Yeah, we had one of those in here just last week. Nice car.
>Needed a clutch." Doh!
> At the time I didn't know anything about Novas (still don't really) and
>didn't ask about it. Nowadays I know there were some interesting hotrod
>Novas built too and I have to wonder... If one car was a Shelby; was the
>Nova perhaps something hot and interesting too? There was a picture of a
>nice looking Yenko "Deuce" Nova on my calendar last month...
> Ed in NC
> Should I mention the Sunbeam Tiger? Well... it was priced more in it's
>reasonable price range for that time period.
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