My Old 440+6 Cuda Ragtop sold again at Mecum

[njsteve]

They were fun times back then. I enjoyed hunting them down, bringing them back from the dead, and then letting them run free.

Kind of like Indiana Jones meets Resident Evil.

[GMC_Typhoon]

Originally Posted by njsteve

They were fun times back then. I enjoyed hunting them down, bringing them back from the dead, and then letting them run free.

Kind of like Indiana Jones meets Resident Evil.

How did you find these? It's not like you could just Google them in the 80's.

[njsteve]

By simply taking the time and talking with people. The lost art of conversation. :-)

Back then people would always come up to me and say: "I got one these, too".

Sadly, most people would just ignore them and blow them off. I always made it a habit of entering into a conversation with that person and I wound up with a lot of interesting cars that way.

And also, a lot of times I would be the one walking up to some collector who had a really rare and cool car and I would be the one who would say: "I got one of these, too" just to see what their reaction was. Sadly, most of the time I'd get the brush off because I was just a 20-something punk with long hair. But once in a while I'd meet someone who'd take the time and chat. Eventually I'd introduce myself and they'd go: "Wait a minute. You're THAT Steve?".

I'm still friends with most of those kind of enthusiasts. A lot are on this site still :-)

This is what I looked like at the time I had all these cars. No wonder no one talked to me!