Missed out by 1.week.

[athol]

This is a long involved story so grab a drink and listen to this tale of woe.
My second best mate has been giving me a hand to restore a xa coupe that I picked up a while ago, a 302 auto fairmont that we found sitting under a tree on a property, the owner had been restoring it and gave up, it was complete but had been stripped of interior and was basicly a rolling shell, had to tow it with a tractor to the car trailer, but for a thousand bucks with all the parts big tank, rare sump guard ,whose complaining.

Anyway we were chatting about the coupe and the second best mate who owns a bottle shop was saying that an old bloke who used to come in was pretty crook,and bedridden, and he had a ax or xb coupe,and was in pristine condition, we should see if he want's to sell it. Bear in mind this was about three weeks ago, and I didn't want to appear to be a vulture and try and get this old blokes pride and joy.

So today we were coming back from the local wreckers and as we drove past the old blokes house the mate talked me into going to see the old fellow, his wife came to the door, we asked about the chaps health and mentioned the car, oh she said I sold it last week,my husband is very ill and I have power of attorney, she showed us a photo, and it was a xb g.s. coupe and appeared to be immaculate, hadn't been driven for 10 years only going out for rego each year didn't know the mileage but it was his pride and joy and he treated it like a baby. Seems some people from sydney got wind of the car and picked it up for four grand, they offered her three and a half but the wife wanted four. by this time I was nearly in tears and didn't have the heart to tell the wife what the car was worth.

I suppose I realy can't complain should have been a vulture like the buyers but it's not really me, and it wasen't meant to be, got the first one cheap so the second would have been a godsend.


Athol.