For being a car guy, I never really owned any very expensive cars for the early part of my car buying days. I loved (and still love) to find bargains on good running older cars that have a lot of soul. All the same all my friends drove really nice fancy cars and I guess I was a little envious. But if someone told me on that random Wednesday in 1998 that I'd be driving my own 4 year old Corvette by that weekend, I'd have laughed at them. But thats what happened and how quickly it happened.
I got a phone call from a friend who goes to the auto auctions freqently. A friend of his needed to sell his Corvette by Friday or he'd go out of business and was willing to go as low as $14000 or $15000. He wanted my friend to take it to the auction for him. My friend called me and said he had a Corvette I could get for a steal if I could have the cash by Friday. And that I did, and I bought it for $14,500 with only 28,000 miles on it. I'd always loved the 80's Corvettes as a little kid and it gave me little goosebumps to think of that everytime I drove it. I drove it around for about 5 months and sold it for $17,500 to the first guy that looked at it. This thing was immaculate. It had the removable glass roof, CD player, tan leather, all powers, digital climate control, --- the works. I might have kept it longer if it wasnt an automatic. That was the only thing I disliked about this car.
