The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117451 Message #2530154
Posted By: Bobert
02-Jan-09 - 09:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: Check your garage!
Subject: RE: BS: Check your garage!
So back 'round '73 I was doin' maintenace work for a company that owned several high rise apartment building in No. Virginia and discovered an ol' Jag down in the parking deck and it was covered in dust...
So I did a little checkin' and found the owner and he told me that he drove it and then one day it wouldn't start... I asked him if he wanted to sell it and, well, to make a long story short, I bought it for $600....
The dust was so thick that I didn't have a clue what I had just bought so I had a roll-back tow it to my house and a week later and alot of 12 hour days it was running perfect and cleaned up...
It was a 120-S roadster which today wopuld bring over $100,000 but, hey, I was young and just trying to turn a few bucks so I sold it to a sports car dealer fir $3000... Hey, other than my labor, I didn't spend over a $100 in parts and oil so for 1973 makin' $2400 for a week's work was like hittin' the lottery...