Try as I might, I spend too much time dreaming about the wrong car and never enough time working on the right one.
This is not a story about that pattern changing.
I purchased the Z car from Patrick with every intention of making it my forever-ish car. I Mofo'd myself when I decided that it should be a street car. I am not independently wealthy so I can not have cars that do not do all of the things I want to do, even if they do not do them at 10/10 level. I want to autocross occasionally, go to dinner with the wife, drive up north in the fall and run down to Eastern Tennessee and inspect the clibbins borther. I really need something like a NC Miata or a Corvette.
Let me pause this story while I check Marketplace.
What the fuhh? That's got to be a scam.
Message this fool.
Wait, what? He's a hooman. Seems pretty genuine. Says the engine blew up because he wasn't paying attention to the temp gauge and it got hot then no longer got at all.
Check the bank rat quick. I can do it, but I'll need to sell off some stuff... stereo stuff, save a little for the Vette, umm... Subaru parts... shizznit... looks like I'll just swap the Z engine and transmission in with the necessary new parts and sell the remainder of the Z to recoup.
Door says he's got a guy who wants it. I asked "How long has he said that?" "8 days" "Times up, I can be there with a trailer tonight."
He said "Okay!"
WHOOPS. I wonder what will happen when Kelly finds out.
Damn damn damn damn jeanclaudevandamn
Jump in Terry Crews-cab, run to the Michigan Indiana border, pull up to the address. A beautiful home with a Gen3 CTS-V, a Merc SUV, a M4 and a C4 Corvette under a fitted car cover in the drive.
This is nuts! Maybe he has two?
Nope. Real nice guy, nice wife, nice child, wonderful neighbors, and after offering $2200 cash I was the nice guy from Michigan with a mohawk that now owns a C4 Corvette.
New tires, new carpet, pretty well maintained L98 auto C4 Corvette.
Get home, show the wife, she asks me why part out the Z, it's worth more than the sum of its parts. She's right.
I put up an ad at 11pm. I have 160 messages by 11am. It's sold by 2pm. On Wednesday it will go to a new home and the parts collection begins.
I have deals for a LS engine,,flexplate harness, mounts, pan, exhaust manifolds. Need TV.cable bracket, intake, injectors, coils, ECU and accessory drive bits.