TIMSPEED

The sale of my vette was ALMOST final today. He even showed me the $10k in CASH, and I had the GUTS to say "No sir, now that I've done some long and hard thinking, this is my ultimate dream car, this is what I've always wanted; and for this I can not let it slip away."
Long Live the 87 Z52!

n1kki6

sweet, i have been close many times but could never do i. How many miles it got on it now.

Coupe89

So....
Seat brakets

TIMSPEED

129k
I think what did it is, I realized I would be HARD PRESSED to find another original owner car with as much documentation as this car has.

TIMSPEED

Shyeah, sorry, I haven't gotten a chance to call ya man. I'll shoot ya a PM.

XPLOCIV

Smart
Don't let go of the dream car.

kwik_ta

Wow... someone was offering you $10k for a car with a buck 29 on the heartbeat??? Dayum!!! I agree with you though. It's always harder to sell something you have acquired such an emotional attachment for. Congrats on keeping the love alive.

luvmy92

So you decided against the ZR-1?

Mike

TIMSPEED

For the time being...I know my vette will never APPRECIATE more than $10k (not any time soon at least) but maybe in the near future, I can have TWO black beauties in the stable

1stC3Vette

I couldn't agree more with you on your choice. I had my mind made up ready to sell it this spring. Then, I took it out for a ride, looked it over and just decided the car meant too much to me.

Good luck,
Dino

rws.1

Hmmm,

I understand the emotion of keeping your C4. That's why mine is not for sale..... but your post raises a couple of questions...

Had you agreed on the price and on the sale and you backed out of a verbal contract?- or -was he just coming to look at it and flashed the wad of cash but you had not yet agreed on a deal?

I'd be more that a bit annoyed if I was the buyer and had gone to close a deal with cash in hand and the seller backed out.... I'd be asking fulfillment of the contract or for 5% of the agreed price as compensation for voiding a legal contract....

saniterium

Did you already agree to sell the car to the guy. If so, that was really lame, wrong, and just plain RUDE to have the man go through all that trouble and get $10k in cash and then wait for him to get to you're place just to say, "you know what, I changed my mind". If anyone did that to me I would be furious and would definently make sure something was done for compensation...especially when the car is barely worth half that.

TIMSPEED

Sort of. We have been talking back and forth about me selling it, and I told him "if someone brings me $10k, I'd probably sell it." So, the other day, he said he'd give me $9700 and then he brought up some BS about him wanting me to put on new tires/brakes/acrylic roof. So that's when I told him, No no, I've decided to not sell it. So he came in today, to tell me he had $10k, but I still said no.
No real AGREEMENT or anything, just kinda shop talk between two guys.
Like someone said before, never sell a car to someone you work with...once he pulled the 'Put this and that on it" I knew that if I sold it to him, it would never end.

quantum-theory

Don't let those 87 Z52's go. Mine goes when I go.

JrRifleCoach

Good decision Cuz. If he really wants a 87 Z52, C4bill has one up here for sale. New radiator, BigMouth, new brakes F&R,new center cat, all U-joints and rear whl/brngs are new. Runs strong and doesn't smoke. DRM-G A4

Unriced

With 129k, I would've taken the cash...

yellowlust

in a heartbeat...

bdvdvh7

it is amazing how the car can be a part of us

MostWanted

I had mine sold for 15,000 but I couldn't let her go. Three weeks later the bearing spun...5,000 dollars after that I added about 70 HP and I am happier than ever!

CentralCoaster

Just swap me wheels and bait and switch with mine! I'll give you a 1% cut.