Yepper, been there. 2009.
I was in long contact with a guy who lived very close by, near my neighborhood with a stock, cameo white, black interior 1970 TA, RAIV 4-speed in St. Pete FL for about 15 years...which he stashed away in his chicken coup in about 74 with a broken motor after it was mildly, street raced locally.
Dropped a valve and was re-sleeved, and never brought out after that again. He also had a Lucy, 70 ta that was heavily modified for race with his dad's company support...including decals of the company on the flanks. I told him that I was only interested in the RAIV car which he was cool with.
It had 19K original miles on it. I still have the PHS on the RAIV car.
After bugging him for 15+ years, he was ready to sell after a bitter divorce.
We agreed to what I believed was a righteous price at the time and he agreed.
I went to his place 1 week later after securing the $ and there was some other fat cat there looking over the car...never heard from him again.
Interesting enough, I was at the TA Nats last Aug and there was, I believe, the same car going through tech inspection, which had been restored...as my local buddy told me, who was also aware of this particular elusive car, that I had been dreaming of.
I ran down to the inspection area and he was long gone, and did not enter the car at the show.
I can only assume this guy offered him some amount of cash over our agreement and he sold it to him against our verbal agreement as a close by neighbor.
Does any body know where this car ever ended up?
I have not heard of it since. I shared the VIN with Erik V.
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