[Pantera]

Jeff, I seldom bought car magzines back then as I was a struggling barber student, but that Aug 69 issue with the "red" vette on the cover really got my juices flowing.
I took it home and drooled over it for weeks. I remember wishing that I could afford to have something like that. About Dec of '72, I about crapped when a guy that I was dating his sister showed up test driving this same car painted Black/Gold stripe.
By then I was just starting out as a used car dealer and had bought a lot of mussle cars and had a little money and I bought the car when he had trouble getting a loan on it. I loved that car and still do.
I auto crossed it and street raced it till the motor went bad. I went through it and was out crusing the restless ribbon one night when some dumbass was not looking and hit me hard in the R. Rear.
His insurance co paid me for the repairs and I just got busy and never got around to fixing it as I didn't want anyone else to be able to drive it and I had my own bodyshop by then but was too busy to get around to my own car.
So it has just been sitting in the back for years. And that is the rest of the story. It is still sitting in the back of my shop on blocks waiting for me to Get around to it. I did get the paint stripped on the entire body but that is all I have done to it since.
I am just pissed at myself for swaping out the seats with a '71 vette that I had on my car lot and sold cheap with black leather '69 seats in it. I guess I can find some origional seats to put back in it somewhere?
Just as soon as I get my scanner fixed I will post some pic's of my baby. I have a small swimming pool repair business and it runs me in the ground.
I am getting all revved up about my cars because of you guys and finding out about the conventions. I have a friend in the neighborhood that owns all the most collectable vettes in the world.
He has the first '53 on display somewhere and the original '57 Seibering race cars that he is restoring. I have been to his shop and it is just depressing what he can do with money that I just don't have.
His name is John Neese.