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Old 04-23-2023, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by JMintzer View Post

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.
I worked with a young guy that use to buy use Corvettes on E-Bay and resold them for a few bucks profit.
He was living at home and sold them out of his parents garage until they needed their garage back in the winter.