undiscovered cars

[NYorange70deuce]

found a 73 trans am 455hd, 4sp, 12 bolt complete car. Bought for $100. had to cut the tree out from rear floor that grew up through back window. Made some good money off that one. lol

[12bolt]

I have come to the realization that these Pack Rats suffer from a strange sense of Delirium! They truly believe that someday they will get it together enough to actually work on the Damned Cars or Their Property or whatever else it is in their life that they clearly cannot tend to. it is a very frustrating process for Car enthusiasts to deal with as we want to Rescue and restore while the truly deranged are content on watching Gold turn to Dust! They just never see the transformation. My tip of the day to all is quite simply this: Continue to Call. Keep "Stopping by". eventually "Somebody" is going to score. It may as well be you! I once scored a 67 SHELBY GT350 the firtst time I knocked on the door! The guy opens the door and asked what I wanted. I told him I wanted the Car. He laughed and said, "100 guys have been to the door over the years and I told every one of them, "No"! Then, just yesterday, a guy stopped by and asked to look the car over. I realized it was time to let it go as I just will never get to it. I gave him a price and he said he would be back. He never showed. I Seized the Moment and asked the price. we went and looked the car over, I had $600 in my Pocket and Came back within 2 hours with a Flatbed and the Balance due. Moral to the story is, Some Clown was a day late and a Dollar Short. Do Not Be The Clown!!

[Canucklehead]

This is'nt really a great find but it pertains to 12bolt's comment. My buddy's father has an old edsel sitting in the weeds in the back yard, and for some reason he feels this car is worth a fortune as it was the car of the day back than. I've tried to convince him that it was a lemon of a car than and it is now. However we may feel about the car, he has let it sit in the garden slowly sinking and rotting away, and is basically worth nothing now, but yet someday.......... There is no talking to him to at least store it properly if he thinks it's worth something. He also has a 79 t-bird he bought brand new with 5000km on it. He bought the most basic model with the intention of storing it as a collector piece as it was the last year of the big birds and theres no telling him anything different.

[Bill Pritchard]

68 L89 Camaro with 28,000 miles on it. Needs complete restoration. Have known all owners of this car since 1972 - I even owned it for 3 months in 1980. Sold it to a friend, who still has it and has put maybe 100 miles on it in 25 years.

[Mr70]

Is that the car you showed me & Tom Purdy pix of at Super Chevy Joliet in Aug. 2000?

[Bill Pritchard]

That's the one. Good memory, Rick

[Bill Pritchard]

I also know of a 68 Olds Cutlass which was an original Ram Rod 350 car. It has 6,000 original miles and when I last saw it (probably 15 or 20 years ago) it was in very good original condition. It is not in very good storage conditions, so I have no idea what kind of shape it's in now. Original motor is long gone, as the car was drag raced in the late 60's and early 70's with a BBC. Although several people have tried very hard, the car cannot be bought