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Originally Posted by vMichael G.
I agree with you on the T-Bird, my dad had 2 a '62 and a '64, I almost had a '55 with the removable hardtop and porthole windows, the seller jacked up the price when I went to pick it up.....
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I bought a '56 T-bird (w/the porthole top) back when I was in college (late '75 or early '76). Had the engine and transmission rebuilt and it was road worth, but a rust bucket. Plus, it had major electrical problems that just couldn't track down.
I sold it a few years later and it helped pay for my first year of Podiatry School...
The following year, I had a roommate who was a Corvette freak. He would scour the newspapers on Thursday/Friday, looking for older Corvettes with minor body damage (he knew how to do fiberglass work and he had a friend with a paint booth).
He would drive to NC or GA with a friend, buy one for a few grand, drive it back, fix the damage, repaint it and re-sell it for a couple of thousand more.
He tried to get me to buy one, a 63 Convertible, at cost, if I helped do the work... I'm STILL kicking myself over that one...