Well, I guess we all got 'em. I had quite a few get away from me here
and there, but my first car was nearly a '54 Corvette. Tis was when I
lived in Detroit and the one I found was already completely restored.
New paint, new interior new Blue Flame 6 (also a tri-carb). The only
thing it needed was carpets. I would have bought it for the whopping
$700 the guy wanted too, but I discovered I couldn't draw out my own
savings from the bank without my Dad's signature, and my parents
weren't going to let me buy me own car (not yet anyway). A few month
later. $370 of the $600 I had went towards a Bugeye instead. I
quickly cost me more than the Vette I wanted too. After the Bugeye
came along, t'was a 100-4 I could have had for $100 too, but I had no
where to put it.
Then there was the friend I had in college who decided to sell his
very well maintained '63' Vette split window coupe for $1500. Doh!
It was still a lot of money back then.
Well, I guess there's a lot we'd all do over if we had the chance.
I know I would...
Gerard
At 12:33 AM -0400 7/19/03, <bushwacker4@zoomtown.com> wrote:
>Hah!!! If you think that is sad, listen to this...
>
>In my late teens I bought a 1959 100-6 for $275. It needed some
>tranny work but I drove it home. A buddy did what he could with the
>tranny and although it whined like a spridget trans, it didn't jump
>out of gear anymore. The OD even worked. Later I found a factory
>hardtop for it for $100. It didn't handle like a Sprite but was cool
>in its own way.
>
>Some time after that it needed front brakes. I pulled the drums and
>discovered that it had 3 shoes, 2 leading and 1 trailing. Weird!!!
>Did some checking and found out that the car was a BN4L model. A
>factory special and that nobody had the right shoes for it. For
>those of you who are still reading and wondering, yes, it was a
>tri-carb model. Of course since I was only a kid and was in to
>Sprites, not the big Healys, I didn't know what I had.
>
>I ended up selling it for a profit even with bad brakes. A while
>back I saw one on eBay that was at $55K and had not reached the
>reserve! In reality, mine wasn't nearly so nice but it makes you
>wonder if you keep something long enough would you get around to
>making it that nice?
>
>Kent
>1960 Bugeye
>1978 Midget
>
>
>When I was rebuilding my bugeye in the late '70s I had a chance to buy a
>factory 100M for $5000. As the prices of 100Ms have risen in to
>the $30-50k range, I regularly kick my butt over that decision.
>Rick
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