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Post by vintageslrs on Jan 25, 2007 10:15:01 GMT -5
Just special effects....but I call it "Abstract Vette". It is a 1977 Corvette....that I once owned.  ;D Bob |
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Post by herron on Jan 25, 2007 14:36:04 GMT -5
What color was it "really" Bob?  (and why'd you sell it?)  |
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Post by John Parry on Jan 25, 2007 16:42:56 GMT -5
Ron, my brother had a Mustang Cobra at around the same time He couldn't sell it. Eventually he almost had to give it away. I would have liked it, but I was married by that time, so of course......!!
Regards - John
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Post by vintageslrs on Jan 25, 2007 20:12:34 GMT -5
Ron
It was actually called "Corvette Tan"......sort of a beige or tan color with Dark Brown Leather interior....
And it was sold, as I liquidated most things from my first life, (including a 1969 Olds 442 and a 1963 Olds F-85 Cutlass) and moved up here to New Hampshire to be with and eventually marry Sherri.
;D
Bob
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Post by herron on Jan 26, 2007 13:55:14 GMT -5
Ouch! An F-85, a 442 and a 'Vette....makes me extremely glad I'm still working on my first life.... 
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Post by herron on Jan 26, 2007 13:57:07 GMT -5
Ron, my brother had a Mustang Cobra at around the same time He couldn't sell it. Eventually he almost had to give it away. I would have liked it, but I was married by that time, so of course......!! Regards - John John: I almost bought my first (used) 'Vette at 18...had the money for the car...couldn't afford the insurance.....  |
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Post by vintageslrs on Jan 26, 2007 14:34:20 GMT -5
I hear ya, Ron.....LOL. the toys were nice........but true happiness was found here, in N.H. with Sherri . And yes I know what you mean......when we were 17-18....the price of the car was only half the equation....the cost of the insurance was the other half.....  Bob |
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Post by vintageslrs on Jan 26, 2007 20:23:39 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D
Crazee Ronnee!!!
you just might be right!!
Bob
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Post by herron on Jan 27, 2007 14:01:42 GMT -5
That's what it's all about, my friend. I've been fortunate. Met my first, one-and-only wife when I was 17 and she was 15. Got married to her when I was 22. We're still together almost 37 years later...and I still marvel and delight that she's here with me. Yessir, true happiness is the name of the game. LOL!!! ;D If only that were true, I'd have had that '60 Vette back in 1966! The seller only wanted $1200 for the car (my, how times change :  , but the best price I could get on insurance (at 18, my driving record had a few too many speeding tickets on it) was $3600 -- three times the price of the car! My own fault, I suppose. But it hurt to let someone else drive away with it! |
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Post by vintageslrs on Jan 27, 2007 20:32:33 GMT -5
Ron I'm sure that hurt alright.....but not as much as what happened to me..... When I was 18...living in north Jersey...we would go to "upstate" New York where (at the time) we could drink legally at 18 (instead of 21 in NJ). Anyway, my friend had a 1969 Dodge Dart GT Sport with a tricked out 340 motor and the TorqueFlyte tranny.....when you stomped on it...you could pull the front wheels slightly off the ground. It was a bronze/copper color. I loved that car.....and he had just ordered a Datsun 240Z. While he was waiting for the 240Z to come in.....he agreed to sell me that GT 340 Sport for $800. I was happy..... ;D. Then came that fateful night...Dec. 1, 1972.....We were all "upstate" ....had a few beers and a few eats...and the 4 of us were driving home in Rich's (soon to be mine) Dart 340. Well, Rich miscalculated "deadman's curve" and slammed that beautiful car into a telephone pole...cut it right in half. I was the passenger in the front passenger seat....and I got the worst of it. A broken jaw in 3 places and 2 crushed vertebra and a disc permanently in the nerve channel (as it still is today). But to me, at that moment, anyway---lol.......the worst part was the car that was soon to be mine...was totalled.....I never got the '69 Dart GT 340....... Now over the years I have tried to find a duplicate of that car......it had to be a 1969...it had to be a GT or GTS...it had to have the 340 motor and it had to have the auto trans....and it had to be that copper metallic color......searched for over 30 years...never found that exact car....seems perhaps none of them survived...... Talk about HURT....lol.  Bob |
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Post by herron on Jan 27, 2007 22:42:48 GMT -5
You're fortunate to still be here.  My wife (whom I was just dating at the time) said it was probably for the best. Given my penchant for speed in those days, I probably would have launched that fiberglas body into something far too solid, too....and might not have been so lucky as to make my 58th birthday (or even my 19th, for that matter)! (sigh...sometimes I hate it when she's right) |
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Post by vintageslrs on Jan 28, 2007 10:31:57 GMT -5
Ron Your wife is probably right....... Sometimes boys and their speed toys........it is amazing we do ever get to become old men..... .... and now most of the time.....we play with cameras?   ;D Bob |
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(and why'd you sell it?) 
, but the best price I could get on insurance (at 18, my driving record had a few too many speeding tickets on it) was $3600 -- three times the price of the car! 
