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trent81
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Rob Wolley one of the better resto guys around here in Memphis called me the other day about a client that had contacted him about doing some restoration and mod work on a corvette here in Memphis. Rob says the guy tells him that he has a 1971 Corvette convertible that his brother-in-law left his wife after he passed away. He wanted him to come over and take a look at the car and let him know what he thinks about his plans for the car and if he would be interested in the job. So Rob calls me and asks me if I would like to tag along and take a look. Of course I did.
Well it turns out that this is not just any old car, it happens to be a 71 LS6!!! After seeing the car and it was in a million peices, Rob figures that he wants to do a standard frame off resto. Nope!! The guy wants to change the turn signals to 69 style, he wants the steel bumpers removed, he wants 74 gills put in he wants to change the interior and thats just part of the molestation this guy wants to do to this car.
Rob asked him if he had lost his mind!! The guy is completely nuts and does not care what the car is worth!! He says its his car and he can do any damn thing he wants to it. Keep in mind that this guy has an old k-car rusting in the back yard and drives an 88 astrovan. Not a clue!!!
I am standing there looking at this big beautiful aluminum head 454 with my mouth hanging open and thinking to my self this guy is really a nut!!!! At this point I'm not really sure what i'm looking at and I think to my self, this can't really be an LS6, but Rob pulls out his book and looks at the numbers and sure enough it is the real deal.
Rob is begging this guy not to do what he is contemplating doing, but the guy refuses to listen. Rob tells him straight up that he cannot and will not do that to that car.
So, I ask the guy what it would take to buy it and he tells me that his wife would never let him sell it. I ask him if I wrote him a check for $20,000.00 right now would he take it. He turns around walks into the house and comes out 5 min. later and say's "Wife says no, cars not for sale" So I start pleading with him not to do what he is asking Rob to do and try to explain to him what the historical significantence is with this car. He still says he could give two ****s and that its just a car!! Said he had been looking at different Corvette books and he likes certain things about the other cars and wanted them on his. I told him that if he would consider a trade that I would find him another car and that he could do whatever he wanted to it.
He takes me and Rob inside and introduces us to his wife (we think she was a woman) I tell her how much of a corvette lover that I am and the the car has some very significant history and that I would make her a very good deal if she would consider some kind of trade for another corvette. She said that she would think about it and get back to me.
I am still shaking my head at what I just witnessed this afternoon. Rob and I rode home almost in silence, all we could keep saying to each other, "is we can't believe that this guy really wants to do that to that car." "He has no idea what he has in his possesion."
Of course I can't stop trying to figure out how I can get these people to give it up and sell it to me!!
I still can't believe it. It is a once in a life time find and some goober and his gooberette has it and has no clue of what they have. Whats worse is they don't care!!!!
Trent81
Well it turns out that this is not just any old car, it happens to be a 71 LS6!!! After seeing the car and it was in a million peices, Rob figures that he wants to do a standard frame off resto. Nope!! The guy wants to change the turn signals to 69 style, he wants the steel bumpers removed, he wants 74 gills put in he wants to change the interior and thats just part of the molestation this guy wants to do to this car.
Rob asked him if he had lost his mind!! The guy is completely nuts and does not care what the car is worth!! He says its his car and he can do any damn thing he wants to it. Keep in mind that this guy has an old k-car rusting in the back yard and drives an 88 astrovan. Not a clue!!!
I am standing there looking at this big beautiful aluminum head 454 with my mouth hanging open and thinking to my self this guy is really a nut!!!! At this point I'm not really sure what i'm looking at and I think to my self, this can't really be an LS6, but Rob pulls out his book and looks at the numbers and sure enough it is the real deal.
Rob is begging this guy not to do what he is contemplating doing, but the guy refuses to listen. Rob tells him straight up that he cannot and will not do that to that car.
So, I ask the guy what it would take to buy it and he tells me that his wife would never let him sell it. I ask him if I wrote him a check for $20,000.00 right now would he take it. He turns around walks into the house and comes out 5 min. later and say's "Wife says no, cars not for sale" So I start pleading with him not to do what he is asking Rob to do and try to explain to him what the historical significantence is with this car. He still says he could give two ****s and that its just a car!! Said he had been looking at different Corvette books and he likes certain things about the other cars and wanted them on his. I told him that if he would consider a trade that I would find him another car and that he could do whatever he wanted to it.
He takes me and Rob inside and introduces us to his wife (we think she was a woman) I tell her how much of a corvette lover that I am and the the car has some very significant history and that I would make her a very good deal if she would consider some kind of trade for another corvette. She said that she would think about it and get back to me.
I am still shaking my head at what I just witnessed this afternoon. Rob and I rode home almost in silence, all we could keep saying to each other, "is we can't believe that this guy really wants to do that to that car." "He has no idea what he has in his possesion."
Of course I can't stop trying to figure out how I can get these people to give it up and sell it to me!!
I still can't believe it. It is a once in a life time find and some goober and his gooberette has it and has no clue of what they have. Whats worse is they don't care!!!!
Trent81
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