hookedtrout
Well-known member
Based on my comments in the SAAC topic I started asking myself why the emphasis seems to have changed here in the forum so much lately toward the $ value of the GT/CS.
It took me back to the days when I purchased my GT/CS in the early 80's. There wasn't a computer in every home in fact I'd never even seen a computer. So there wasn't this endless opportunity to research what a GT/CS or anything else was for that matter and learn all about it before making a decision to buy it. I simply saw the car, had no idea what it was, loved it, told the owner that if he ever sold it I'd buy it. He assured me it would never be for sale as it had been in his family since its original purchase so I drooled a bit as he pulled away, sulked in my sorrows that in all likelihood I'd never have the pleasure of calling that beauty my own and went on with my life.
Several years later I saw the car sitting at the place of employment of the owner with a "For Sale" sign in the back window. ;D ;D ;D I took down the number, called and called and called and called until I got an answer, no cell phones and no answering machines in those days either so you had to wait till they got home. Anyway I informed the owner I would buy the car and insisted he take the sign out of the window. He told me he had put it up for sale several months ago with an asking price of $6000 but hadn't had anyone interested in it so he had lowered the price to $3800. I assured him the price wasn't an issue but the for sale sign was of grave concern to me and begged him to get it out of the window. He said he would and I guaranteed him I would buy the car which I did at his asking price of 3800. The car had fresh paint and the only thing it needed was a front drivers seat cover as it had some tears, I had a Mustang restoration shop replace the upholstery.
The moral of this story is that I purchased my car in the days before you could analyze, valuize, disect, disenfect, antivirus, scan, cut and paste and basically expose the issue to the point there was no question left in your mind as to what it was, what it was worth, who had them, who wanted them, where they were, where they weren't so forth and so on and I'm sure you get the point. I simply bought my Special out of a love for what I saw one lucky day sitting in front of me.
That said I guess I'll say I'm not trying to make a point with all this just shed some light to appease myself more than anything as to the changes in life particularly with the exposure that the computer world has offered. And I will say that I have no opposition to what it offers, on the contrary I'm the first to go through all the aforementioned motions when ever I come up with some off the wall thing that I convince myself I must have. Oh yea, I research the net till I know everything about it there is to know and then I load my guns and go hunting.
Love to hear comments from others, is it all about the value or the love man. For me, it's the love man.
Hook
It took me back to the days when I purchased my GT/CS in the early 80's. There wasn't a computer in every home in fact I'd never even seen a computer. So there wasn't this endless opportunity to research what a GT/CS or anything else was for that matter and learn all about it before making a decision to buy it. I simply saw the car, had no idea what it was, loved it, told the owner that if he ever sold it I'd buy it. He assured me it would never be for sale as it had been in his family since its original purchase so I drooled a bit as he pulled away, sulked in my sorrows that in all likelihood I'd never have the pleasure of calling that beauty my own and went on with my life.
Several years later I saw the car sitting at the place of employment of the owner with a "For Sale" sign in the back window. ;D ;D ;D I took down the number, called and called and called and called until I got an answer, no cell phones and no answering machines in those days either so you had to wait till they got home. Anyway I informed the owner I would buy the car and insisted he take the sign out of the window. He told me he had put it up for sale several months ago with an asking price of $6000 but hadn't had anyone interested in it so he had lowered the price to $3800. I assured him the price wasn't an issue but the for sale sign was of grave concern to me and begged him to get it out of the window. He said he would and I guaranteed him I would buy the car which I did at his asking price of 3800. The car had fresh paint and the only thing it needed was a front drivers seat cover as it had some tears, I had a Mustang restoration shop replace the upholstery.
The moral of this story is that I purchased my car in the days before you could analyze, valuize, disect, disenfect, antivirus, scan, cut and paste and basically expose the issue to the point there was no question left in your mind as to what it was, what it was worth, who had them, who wanted them, where they were, where they weren't so forth and so on and I'm sure you get the point. I simply bought my Special out of a love for what I saw one lucky day sitting in front of me.
That said I guess I'll say I'm not trying to make a point with all this just shed some light to appease myself more than anything as to the changes in life particularly with the exposure that the computer world has offered. And I will say that I have no opposition to what it offers, on the contrary I'm the first to go through all the aforementioned motions when ever I come up with some off the wall thing that I convince myself I must have. Oh yea, I research the net till I know everything about it there is to know and then I load my guns and go hunting.
Love to hear comments from others, is it all about the value or the love man. For me, it's the love man.
Hook
