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Originally Posted by Deadhead
One of my favorite memories of a car show was down in SW, VA. I met a member here to pick up some parts. There was a guy there with a super rare '66 Impala SS. I had seen one like it on the BJ auction recently, so it really struck me. The car was 100% original. Guy had owned it if not from new darn close to it. The paint was pretty dull, and it had obviously not been washed. When I went to look inside of it, the floor boards were littered with innumerable crumpled cigarette wrappers and packs as well as beer cans and all the other stuff you would have done back in the 70s when you parked on pull-offs on the back roads to hang out. All this in a car that could easily have brought 6 figures with the right guy at the auction. I did not even THINK about asking the guy if he knew how much the car was worth or anything. I just smiled and nodded to him, enjoying the big picture of a killer car that was a real time capsule in action. Dude never made it out of the 70s, and I envied him for it. All you had to do was sit in the car and you were back there. There were a lot of different varieties of 'seat time' enjoyed in that mobile over the last 40 years that no trailer rides or carnuba were gonna equal.
Also remember, some people do this stuff just to mess with you. It is their personal expression of wealth whether they have a pot to pi$$ in or not. 'Merica. You got to love it.
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True and Perhaps the OP subject GTO should tell the current owner - "It's the heart of the matter, even if you don't love me anymore..."
http://youtu.be/Xezg3z5IE8I