Sal (the owner of the car) called me very early this AM and here is how the conversation went.
He said that he wanted cash, I said I would come down now to look at and give a deposit for the car. He then told me that he needed to get permission from his friend because that is where the car is being kept and his friend has valuable cars there (an L-S6 convertable among others) I said I could respect that and he said that he would call me between 3-4 PM this afternoon after he got out of work and I could come look at it tonight. I again said that I was coming down with the intention of putting a deposit on the car after my inspection, then I would return on Tuesday when the banks opend with the balance of what we agreed upon in cash. He said that would be fine.
We also taked at length about the Baldwin Motion cars He knew some, but not much about them. I asked if it had a hone over drive and he didn't know. I then asked if it had side pipes and again he didn't know. I asked if the car had a L-88 hood or a 67 corvette stinger hood. He then said that it had the stinger hood with a white stripe on it.
He said that the car had an document from Baldwin Chevrolet. And I asked if that was where the car was originally delivered to and he said yes it was. He asked why I wanted to know and I explained to him the diffrence in value between a Baldwin delivered car and a motion modified car, he again didn't know about that. He then told me that he never drove the car since he bought it 19 years ago out of hemmings.
I still have not heard from Sal. Is it legit or is it bogus
If it is legit then Sal is getting short changed because I am willing to double the $50,000.00 offer.
Does it matter if I get the car? It would be nice... but my happeness does not come from things so I wont lose sleep over it.
I now will get the popcorn out and continue to enjoy this thread.
There is much more to this but I am not good at conveying my thoughts with a key board.
Rich.