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In 1971 during my first year in college, I was working at a gas station to support myself while in school. This was a full service station and it provided a towing service too.
Late one Saturday afternoon, just prior to my shift ending I got a call from an elderly woman asking if we ever bought old cars or simply reomved them
hauled them away? I told her the deal as it was, we did neither, only providing transportation to the garage for repairs and AAA calls.
She was adamant about having her sons Chevy hauled away but felt it still had some value. She said she wasnt asking much and needed it removed very soon. I was curious and said Id stop by after my shift and have a look see figuring maybe I could do something with it for myself, but expecting not much of a car as she said it was a 62 or 63 model and had a stick shift which she could not drive.
I got off work. Got to her address and she showed me to the garage/shed where a large tarp coverd the car. Removing the tarp some to see what was underneath I found a 1963 Corvette.
Things changed right then. Well in my mind at least. I asked her what she had to have for it and she said, Would $1200 be too much?. Knowing it was way more than a bargain, I asked her if it ran and she handed me the keys. It started up easily with the big V8 purring like a relaxed cat.
I began to sweat.. I didnt have $1200, but desperately wanted that ride! I asked what was the least she would take? She replied I guess $1,000 would be good enough. I didnt have the heart to try and lessen the cost and said would she give me till Monday to raise the money? She agreed.
To make a long story still more monotonous I tried everything I could think of to raise that thousand dollars over the next two days. to no good end.
I dropped back by to tell her I had no good luck and said she needed to place an ad for it in the local papers if selling it was a priority at that time. I also said one never knows what someone else will pay for something, and if you dont ask for it, you wont have the chance to get it. Mentioning to rethink the sales price at double what she had offered me
if not a bit more.
She stopped by the station some weeks later to tell me she had sold the car and had gotten a lot more money for it by taking my advice.
I was glad to help but Ill never ever get over not having or being able to raise the money for that Corvette. Id probably still have it. Well maybe not, after all driving has been beyond me for quite a while now, but Id have had it for a very long time
and no, she didnt give me a tip
or maybe she had already by giving me that initial opportunity to buy it so cheaply.
