July 12, 2024 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Samonchoti after the show podcast. We're
on vacation until July the fifteenth, So until we're back,
we're sharing with you some of our favorite podcast moments
from the past.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I want, I want Murphy to tell you the story
of what happened yesterday. I'm proud of him. I was
worried about him.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Let Sam know you go skydiving that that will never happen.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
No, it was a piece of history from our family
that is now in the hands of someone else. So
you know, I think we mentioned several podcasts back, maybe
a year ago, that my dad had a corvette that
never It never ran. Honestly, the last time I think
I remember writing in it was on the way to
kindergarten one year in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You weren't buckled up either. This was a sixty six Corvette.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, it did have seatbelts though, right.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
In the front seat, not buggled all around.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Can I shift?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Dad? Well, you know what, it was a corvette. You
wanted to be seen in the front seat, even as
a kindergartener. It was a sixty six red Stingray. Yeah,
and he bought it used. He bought it in nineteen
sixty nine, he paid twenty five hundred bucks for it.
Are you kidding, different time, different place every day, huh?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
And was it one of those ones that Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And I haven't heard that sound in forever, and I
think I have a recording of it somewhere, because that's
what I did when I was a kid. The last
time it was cranked, we actually put it on our calendar.
That's how iconic this thing was to me and my
brother and sister, probably because it sat and didn't run
for a long time, and so when he said he
was going to crank it up and get it running again,
we were excited about that. And so this was in
(01:42):
literally August of nineteen eighty two, was the last time
it got cranked. And when he cranked it, the fuel
started spewing everywhere. The carburetor was leaking and at that moment,
and I still don't know why, And of course he's
passed on now, so we will never know why he was,
why he lost his interest in the vet. He loved
that car. He took great care of it. But after
(02:03):
that it's set. It is never run.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Since that is hard to understand, since it was such
a love of his.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yep, and you know, and it took my brother and
sister and I a couple of years to just kind
of get through the things that were we were emotionally
attached to. So the car went up at me and
Jodie's house and in the carport difference, you know, two
years kind of doing the same thing it did at
my dad's house for forty years, right, not running and
not doing anything. And you know, we had toyed with
(02:31):
the back and forth part of do we fix it
up for ourselves? And in your head romantically, you really do,
that's what you want to do, but it costs money.
And then the reality is it's an older vehicle. If
that's not something you do when you're committed to or
you have the time to do it. You know, if
I were a different spot in my life and we
didn't have girls in college and all that kind of stuff, maybe,
(02:52):
but that's not as much as I want that to
be me, it's not me.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
You know, I'm so glad to hear you.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
For three years, I've watched you toy with how can
I let go of this? It meant so much to
my father, and I really never said much about it,
but when we're having the conversation the other day. It's
kind of like, it's not your If you really want it,
then do it.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
But it's something that he had wanted. You have to
live your own life.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, you know. Well, and my sister and I were
jokingly talking about this is that it's I mean, he
didn't do anything with it or however many years. So
he died in twenty twenty one, so it was almost
forty years that he did nothing with it, you know.
But so we finally offered it, you know, up for sale.
And that was an interesting process too, because there are
(03:43):
enthusiasts who are absolute, you know, fanatics about it, and
different fanatics do different things. One of the gentlemen who
was interested in it's super nice guy had seen the
car for forty years. Actually he would drive by and
see it sticking out of my dad's carport, and so
over the years he stayed in touch and.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
He had a love affair with that car from Afar.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
From Afar, and he's one of these enthusiastics that does
the competition stuff, not racing, but competition wearing it. Yeah,
the uh and I'm always always forget it. It's the
National Corvette I always forget the acronym for it, but
so nationally they go and they tally for points, and
the points are based on originality and all those kinds
(04:26):
of things. And because my dad rarely messed with anything
of his, the corvette had a lot of you know,
its original you know parts on it. And he spent
this guy spent about four hours, I guess, going through
the car A to Z and and after all that time,
the offer that he made, unfortunately wasn't really with respect
to what we know that the market is. I've done
(04:48):
my research on everything and the market value on it,
and uh, and I'd explained to him upfront that And
this is what I would advise anybody in a in
a family setting like this, when you whether it's a
house or anything, anything that you have the emotional attachment,
to let the emotional attachment run its course before you
make any decisions, because you're either going to be prone
to do one of two things, hold on to something
(05:09):
that you shouldn't hold on to, or sell something for
too little because you don't want it, or sell something
try to sell something for too much because you overvalue it.
You got to take the emotion out before you actually
you know, get to a place where you so that
you can have a confident conversation. And and these are
all really nice people. So it was a it was
interesting to negotiate, I see people. Because the first gentleman
(05:33):
who was interested in the car his offer because he's
a competition guy, he would have to spend a lot
of money that he would probably not recoup into it. Therefore,
his offer was too low. And I'd explain from the beginning, look,
we we need to respectfully sell this at the you know,
at the market rate. So once the word got out that.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Uh, theguration, I was curious, what did you advertise them anywhere.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Among these And let me just say, the few that
came to our house knocked on the door to spend
time with Murphy looking at and talking about this car.
I didn't even have to have a heads up. I
knew the knock on the door, the ring of the doorbell.
I open, and I can just tell they're so it's
about that car.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Hi, I'm here to see the car. Like, wow, yes,
you seem super excited.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, here it is. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I should have kept in the garage and charged five
bucks apiece.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, you know, the consulted you. First, the thing about
these all these gentlemen that I went up speaking with
were great. The second person who was interested in the
vehicle is actually, you know, the guy who helped us
move it from my dad's house to mine, because yes,
I could have borrowed a friend's truck and trailer and
done that thing myself, and it's just not the kind
(06:50):
of thing I trusted myself with for a car like that,
And it was my dad's baby. So at that point,
you know, it's like.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
We're just treat it.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
We're treating it the same way that he did when
he was alive, for fear that you know, he's going
to come out of the grave complain about the way
we're trading the car. But anyway, so but this guy
actually and it was our friend JJ who we used
to work with, who's also a you know, corvette enthusiast,
who connected me with this with the gentleman who came
over to the house, and he was interested too. But
(07:17):
the third person is the is the one who wound
up buying the car. And the reason that I, yeah,
the reason that I enjoyed this is because it really
became a good social experience. Two total strangers who don't
know each other other than talking to him on the phone.
And you know, obviously I'd checked him out ahead of
time and I'd have done all my homework on everything,
(07:39):
so we were well prepared. You know, he was legitimate.
He actually is a he's a car wholesaler and so
but he's but what he does personally is he's got
a couple of these collects. He's a classic cars guy.
It's his passion, it's his love. And he grew up.
He grew up in a very poor environment, meaning you know, financially,
(08:02):
didn't have anything, and he built his own business. And
he's not like he became incredibly wealthy, but he established
his own business and made himself his work through you know,
his retirement now and is enjoying what he wants to
enjoy in a very simple way, I should say too.
And so when he came by to he called me,
and he actually didn't He based this off of pictures
(08:23):
and other people who were Corvette friends. He knew before
he saw the car sight unseen. He made the offer
and all that, and that was the first time that
he saw the car was me the same day. I'm
giving him the keys.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It's literally That's my favorite part of the story is
that the person who bought the car bought its sight unseen,
Like Murphy's like, yeah, what was it two nights ago? Yeah,
the car sold who this person? Oh has this person
seen it? No, that's just crazy to me. Sight unseen,
He's seen pictures.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
And again, you know, the these the car enthusiasts, regardless
of what kind of vehicle it is, they all do
talk and they know, I mean if it's and he
actually knows the who inspected the car for the other
gentleman who had come to the to the house too.
So anyway, they again close knit, you know group. So
it was really nice to meet him, and it was
it was I just asked a lot of questions because
(09:13):
I wanted to know his story. You know, my dad
had a story that you know, it wasn't anything other
than he bought a car that he loved. He drove
it to work for a while, he drove it for
pleasure for a little while, and then parked it for
forty years, but still loved it so much that he
was never going to part with it. And you can
see that this is the gentleman who bought the car.
It's the same thing. He's excited. He can't wait to
(09:33):
get it up and running. And he explained, you know,
I might keep it. I might just make it road ready.
I might. You know, he's he's got all these you
know options, you know ahead of him. What was There
were a couple of strange things that happened though yesterday.
One of them is the car is so old and
the title is so old that the title itself was
(09:55):
in question as to whether it was a copy or
the actual you know, title or what have you. So
he and I rode together, and I'm gonna tell you
that's trust too, when you've got, you know, two people
who don't know each other. And he hops into my car.
He's putting a lot of trust into me. Broke where
we're going, and so we went and got those matters
cleared up. It was it's because the title was issued
(10:18):
at a time before computers, and when the state began
to computerize all of its records, something happened in the
transition from microfish the film stuff or whatever. It didn't
make it into the database computer database, probably because my
dad was not driving it anymore, and because it didn't
(10:38):
have a license plate at that time and then to
further complicate things. One thing that we didn't really know
until I talked to my sister later. We I guess
he was going to try to get it back up
and running at some point in the early two thousands,
and he went back and applied for a plate. So
the title that I had actually was not the most
current title. The title had already been reissued. Bottom line
(11:00):
is thanks to everything we were able to get that.
It was a very easy process to get that all corrected. Uh, yesterday,
and then he came back to the house and the
tires were flat, and we had to he had to
bring an extra tire because I mean one of them
the same tires have been on the car that have
been there since nineteen eighty. And it wouldn't roll at first,
(11:22):
even though we rolled it into the car port easily.
But we so he had his trailer with the winch
and we pulled it up. You know, I helped him.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I wasn't home him.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Sam. I know you expected, but I let that one go.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I saw you didn't really let it go. You flinched.
You flinched at the winch.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah, and uh, you know I was I was fully expecting.
In fact, I got a really sweet text from Jodie
just saying, look, I know this is probably tough for you.
Just remember it's the right decision.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Remember it's a thing.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It's a thing. And but I was really more at
peace than I thought I was going to be much
liked with the house. After you finally do get to
the place where it's run its course, it's like, Okay,
this is the right thing to do. You know, I
have an incredible brother and sister and so that you know,
the three of us decided that together, all on the
same page. And you know, so I watched it get
(12:15):
rolled up onto the trailer, found the little box that
had the four wheel covers, and because my dad protected
and preserved everything, it had pillows between it. And you know,
I gave him the whole box and found a couple
of extra sets of brakes and break calipers, and you know,
gave him all that, and and the original keys to
(12:37):
the car, which my brother was the one who found
those with those were lost for a year after my
dad passed. We couldn't find them, and and then the
car pulled off. Here's what's weird. This is really really
really weird. So the first thing I was going to do, was,
you know, talk to my brother and sister. But I
realized the first thing I needed to do was go
(12:57):
deposit the check, make sure all that was legit. And
so I start to text my brother and sister and
I'm attaching a picture. I took a selfie with the gentleman.
His name was Roland, and I was about to send
those in the phone rings and it's my brother in
(13:18):
law and my sister Jackie. Jason and Jackie calling me
and they said, Hey, did you see the picture we
just texted you? No, I'm actually I'm in the process
of texting you both right now. And so my nephew
Jacob was at a traffic light and he saw the
(13:39):
corvette on the back of his trailer leaving. Now, he
had no idea it was covered, right, No, it was
not covered.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
He didn't cover it to move it.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
No, he didn't cover it to move well, honestly, the
reason he wouldn't do that is because covered. If he
didn't have the right way to secure it. He was
driving a long distance, the wind would have scratched the
car the cover.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Would you know, flat cover was from when it was stored.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, exactly. And as he knows. The only scratch on
that car is when I told him that, Yeah, my
wife parked a little too close.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Okay, that's not true. Me parking next to it.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
That was a real He could have got another thirty
thousand for it. Oh scratch, that was.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
A real thing.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Then the nerves of parking next to that thing every
day for three years, two years, Oh, I know, that
was a real nervous one.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I hear my dad's voice constantly. I wouldn't put things
on your voice for that reason.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Your voice, Jody, what did you do?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
So my nephew sees the car awesome, and he texts
that to my sister. And this is not an exaggerated
This is not an exaggeration. My sister at that very
moment is listening to the radio when she gets it,
and this song is playing. No, I am not I
(14:55):
am not kidding you. When she told me that because
they were about to text me, you know, because my
sister knew it was being completed. She was thinking about that,
the transaction was being completed. She it just made her
think about that. Seconds later, she gets the picture from
my nephew of the vet sitting up on the trailer,
and here's a little red Corvette at the same time,
I was like, okay, so this is definitely my dad
(15:17):
here orchestrating this whole thing. You know, the timing of
all of that for my nephew to very coincidentally, I
don't even know it's for my nephew to actually be
right there at that intersection at that time, and for
my sister to be listening to the radio and hearing
that at that time, everything just kind of came together.
So so to me that was the crazy, you know,
(15:38):
emotional part was like, Okay, this is no one can
disprove it, so I'll just choose to believe that somehow
my dad, my late dad, must have had some hand
and all that coincidence going together. But I'm really really
happy for the guy, you know, who bought the car,
because it's it's a love and it's a passion, and
I'm wondering if some of that is a dying passion
(15:59):
depending on who you talk to, I don't know. It's
there will always be motor enthusiasts, there will always be
car enthusiasts, but there's something very special about those original
roadsters of the fifties and the sixties, and you know,
this gentleman is about to celebrate his seventy fifth birthday.
Who bought the you know, bought the car. And he's
as passionate today. And by the way, he's also a
(16:21):
prostate cancer survivor. But a lot of different things. He's
really just he's enjoying what he wants to enjoy, and
his thrill is going to be to get it cranked.
I just told him to look when you do that,
if you don't mind the first time you crank it,
please run video on it. That's a sound that I
haven't heard forever. Yeah, and I would love to hear it.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Now that you have this relationship with him, not that
it's a relationship, but you connected with him and spend
that time with him, I think he'll share it with you.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, I know he will. If not, we have his
we have his number.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Now as he since he's seventy five, is he going
to do it himself or is he hiring folks that
like contracting it out?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
He's going to do parts of it himself. Yeah, he is.
Really he's retired, I guess. Yeah, all the time in
the world. Any of the you know, the stuff that
he wouldn't do would be the if he's got to
drop a gas tank out it, and that's the whole thing.
My dad, My dad took care of that stuff. He
didn't have a drop of gas in it. That tank
is clean, sitting for forty years, no rust clean. And
(17:15):
so his first order of business is to put a
battery in it, put oil in it, and see if
it will rank.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Oh my gosh, when is he doing that?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I don't know yet, huh. And he's probably got to
get the carburetor working and all that because the last
time it cranked, gasoline sprayed everywhere, you know, and that
was forty years ago.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
So great, So what a big day for you.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, so I can't wait to I can't wait, you know,
to hear that. But you know, there's just something really
cool about seeing the joy in others. And that's the
reason I felt really badly for the other two guys
who were interested, also because I wanted to make everybody
happy really, because it's a personal passion for all of them.
It's not just a car.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
There's only so many of those too. Yes, that's that's
another thing.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
They understand how special it was their opportunity to see it,
and they are opportunity to offer, you know, an amount
for it.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
There's only so many of them. Those will not be
made again.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
So well, anyway, I'm proud of you for, you know,
feeling good about letting it go.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
And you have a new parking spot, don't you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I have a bigger parking spot for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
You can fling that door open as heart as you.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I so can't missed any part of the show.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Get it All on the Murphy Salmon Jody podcast.
Welcome to the Murphy Samonchoti after the show podcast. We're
on vacation until July the fifteenth, So until we're back,
we're sharing with you some of our favorite podcast moments
from the past.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I want, I want Murphy to tell you the story
of what happened yesterday. I'm proud of him. I was
worried about him.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Let Sam know you go skydiving that that will never happen.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
No, it was a piece of history from our family
that is now in the hands of someone else. So
you know, I think we mentioned several podcasts back, maybe
a year ago, that my dad had a corvette that
never It never ran. Honestly, the last time I think
I remember writing in it was on the way to
kindergarten one year in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You weren't buckled up either. This was a sixty six Corvette.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, it did have seatbelts though, right.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
In the front seat, not buggled all around.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Can I shift?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Dad? Well, you know what, it was a corvette. You
wanted to be seen in the front seat, even as
a kindergartener. It was a sixty six red Stingray. Yeah,
and he bought it used. He bought it in nineteen
sixty nine, he paid twenty five hundred bucks for it.
Are you kidding, different time, different place every day, huh?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
And was it one of those ones that Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And I haven't heard that sound in forever, and I
think I have a recording of it somewhere, because that's
what I did when I was a kid. The last
time it was cranked, we actually put it on our calendar.
That's how iconic this thing was to me and my
brother and sister, probably because it sat and didn't run
for a long time, and so when he said he
was going to crank it up and get it running again,
we were excited about that. And so this was in
(01:42):
literally August of nineteen eighty two, was the last time
it got cranked. And when he cranked it, the fuel
started spewing everywhere. The carburetor was leaking and at that moment,
and I still don't know why, And of course he's
passed on now, so we will never know why he was,
why he lost his interest in the vet. He loved
that car. He took great care of it. But after
(02:03):
that it's set. It is never run.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Since that is hard to understand, since it was such
a love of his.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yep, and you know, and it took my brother and
sister and I a couple of years to just kind
of get through the things that were we were emotionally
attached to. So the car went up at me and
Jodie's house and in the carport difference, you know, two
years kind of doing the same thing it did at
my dad's house for forty years, right, not running and
not doing anything. And you know, we had toyed with
(02:31):
the back and forth part of do we fix it
up for ourselves? And in your head romantically, you really do,
that's what you want to do, but it costs money.
And then the reality is it's an older vehicle. If
that's not something you do when you're committed to or
you have the time to do it. You know, if
I were a different spot in my life and we
didn't have girls in college and all that kind of stuff, maybe,
(02:52):
but that's not as much as I want that to
be me, it's not me.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
You know, I'm so glad to hear you.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
For three years, I've watched you toy with how can
I let go of this? It meant so much to
my father, and I really never said much about it,
but when we're having the conversation the other day. It's
kind of like, it's not your If you really want it,
then do it.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
But it's something that he had wanted. You have to
live your own life.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, you know. Well, and my sister and I were
jokingly talking about this is that it's I mean, he
didn't do anything with it or however many years. So
he died in twenty twenty one, so it was almost
forty years that he did nothing with it, you know.
But so we finally offered it, you know, up for sale.
And that was an interesting process too, because there are
(03:43):
enthusiasts who are absolute, you know, fanatics about it, and
different fanatics do different things. One of the gentlemen who
was interested in it's super nice guy had seen the
car for forty years. Actually he would drive by and
see it sticking out of my dad's carport, and so
over the years he stayed in touch and.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
He had a love affair with that car from Afar.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
From Afar, and he's one of these enthusiastics that does
the competition stuff, not racing, but competition wearing it. Yeah,
the uh and I'm always always forget it. It's the
National Corvette I always forget the acronym for it, but
so nationally they go and they tally for points, and
the points are based on originality and all those kinds
(04:26):
of things. And because my dad rarely messed with anything
of his, the corvette had a lot of you know,
its original you know parts on it. And he spent
this guy spent about four hours, I guess, going through
the car A to Z and and after all that time,
the offer that he made, unfortunately wasn't really with respect
to what we know that the market is. I've done
(04:48):
my research on everything and the market value on it,
and uh, and I'd explained to him upfront that And
this is what I would advise anybody in a in
a family setting like this, when you whether it's a
house or anything, anything that you have the emotional attachment,
to let the emotional attachment run its course before you
make any decisions, because you're either going to be prone
to do one of two things, hold on to something
(05:09):
that you shouldn't hold on to, or sell something for
too little because you don't want it, or sell something
try to sell something for too much because you overvalue it.
You got to take the emotion out before you actually
you know, get to a place where you so that
you can have a confident conversation. And and these are
all really nice people. So it was a it was
interesting to negotiate, I see people. Because the first gentleman
(05:33):
who was interested in the car his offer because he's
a competition guy, he would have to spend a lot
of money that he would probably not recoup into it. Therefore,
his offer was too low. And I'd explain from the beginning, look,
we we need to respectfully sell this at the you know,
at the market rate. So once the word got out that.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Uh, theguration, I was curious, what did you advertise them anywhere.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Among these And let me just say, the few that
came to our house knocked on the door to spend
time with Murphy looking at and talking about this car.
I didn't even have to have a heads up. I
knew the knock on the door, the ring of the doorbell.
I open, and I can just tell they're so it's
about that car.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Hi, I'm here to see the car. Like, wow, yes,
you seem super excited.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, here it is. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I should have kept in the garage and charged five
bucks apiece.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, you know, the consulted you. First, the thing about
these all these gentlemen that I went up speaking with
were great. The second person who was interested in the
vehicle is actually, you know, the guy who helped us
move it from my dad's house to mine, because yes,
I could have borrowed a friend's truck and trailer and
done that thing myself, and it's just not the kind
(06:50):
of thing I trusted myself with for a car like that,
And it was my dad's baby. So at that point,
you know, it's like.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
We're just treat it.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
We're treating it the same way that he did when
he was alive, for fear that you know, he's going
to come out of the grave complain about the way
we're trading the car. But anyway, so but this guy
actually and it was our friend JJ who we used
to work with, who's also a you know, corvette enthusiast,
who connected me with this with the gentleman who came
over to the house, and he was interested too. But
(07:17):
the third person is the is the one who wound
up buying the car. And the reason that I, yeah,
the reason that I enjoyed this is because it really
became a good social experience. Two total strangers who don't
know each other other than talking to him on the phone.
And you know, obviously I'd checked him out ahead of
time and I'd have done all my homework on everything,
(07:39):
so we were well prepared. You know, he was legitimate.
He actually is a he's a car wholesaler and so
but he's but what he does personally is he's got
a couple of these collects. He's a classic cars guy.
It's his passion, it's his love. And he grew up.
He grew up in a very poor environment, meaning you know, financially,
(08:02):
didn't have anything, and he built his own business. And
he's not like he became incredibly wealthy, but he established
his own business and made himself his work through you know,
his retirement now and is enjoying what he wants to
enjoy in a very simple way, I should say too.
And so when he came by to he called me,
and he actually didn't He based this off of pictures
(08:23):
and other people who were Corvette friends. He knew before
he saw the car sight unseen. He made the offer
and all that, and that was the first time that
he saw the car was me the same day. I'm
giving him the keys.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It's literally That's my favorite part of the story is
that the person who bought the car bought its sight unseen,
Like Murphy's like, yeah, what was it two nights ago? Yeah,
the car sold who this person? Oh has this person
seen it? No, that's just crazy to me. Sight unseen,
He's seen pictures.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
And again, you know, the these the car enthusiasts, regardless
of what kind of vehicle it is, they all do
talk and they know, I mean if it's and he
actually knows the who inspected the car for the other
gentleman who had come to the to the house too.
So anyway, they again close knit, you know group. So
it was really nice to meet him, and it was
it was I just asked a lot of questions because
(09:13):
I wanted to know his story. You know, my dad
had a story that you know, it wasn't anything other
than he bought a car that he loved. He drove
it to work for a while, he drove it for
pleasure for a little while, and then parked it for
forty years, but still loved it so much that he
was never going to part with it. And you can
see that this is the gentleman who bought the car.
It's the same thing. He's excited. He can't wait to
(09:33):
get it up and running. And he explained, you know,
I might keep it. I might just make it road ready.
I might. You know, he's he's got all these you
know options, you know ahead of him. What was There
were a couple of strange things that happened though yesterday.
One of them is the car is so old and
the title is so old that the title itself was
(09:55):
in question as to whether it was a copy or
the actual you know, title or what have you. So
he and I rode together, and I'm gonna tell you
that's trust too, when you've got, you know, two people
who don't know each other. And he hops into my car.
He's putting a lot of trust into me. Broke where
we're going, and so we went and got those matters
cleared up. It was it's because the title was issued
(10:18):
at a time before computers, and when the state began
to computerize all of its records, something happened in the
transition from microfish the film stuff or whatever. It didn't
make it into the database computer database, probably because my
dad was not driving it anymore, and because it didn't
(10:38):
have a license plate at that time and then to
further complicate things. One thing that we didn't really know
until I talked to my sister later. We I guess
he was going to try to get it back up
and running at some point in the early two thousands,
and he went back and applied for a plate. So
the title that I had actually was not the most
current title. The title had already been reissued. Bottom line
(11:00):
is thanks to everything we were able to get that.
It was a very easy process to get that all corrected. Uh, yesterday,
and then he came back to the house and the
tires were flat, and we had to he had to
bring an extra tire because I mean one of them
the same tires have been on the car that have
been there since nineteen eighty. And it wouldn't roll at first,
(11:22):
even though we rolled it into the car port easily.
But we so he had his trailer with the winch
and we pulled it up. You know, I helped him.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I wasn't home him.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Sam. I know you expected, but I let that one go.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I saw you didn't really let it go. You flinched.
You flinched at the winch.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah, and uh, you know I was I was fully expecting.
In fact, I got a really sweet text from Jodie
just saying, look, I know this is probably tough for you.
Just remember it's the right decision.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Remember it's a thing.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It's a thing. And but I was really more at
peace than I thought I was going to be much
liked with the house. After you finally do get to
the place where it's run its course, it's like, Okay,
this is the right thing to do. You know, I
have an incredible brother and sister and so that you know,
the three of us decided that together, all on the
same page. And you know, so I watched it get
(12:15):
rolled up onto the trailer, found the little box that
had the four wheel covers, and because my dad protected
and preserved everything, it had pillows between it. And you know,
I gave him the whole box and found a couple
of extra sets of brakes and break calipers, and you know,
gave him all that, and and the original keys to
(12:37):
the car, which my brother was the one who found
those with those were lost for a year after my
dad passed. We couldn't find them, and and then the
car pulled off. Here's what's weird. This is really really
really weird. So the first thing I was going to do, was,
you know, talk to my brother and sister. But I
realized the first thing I needed to do was go
(12:57):
deposit the check, make sure all that was legit. And
so I start to text my brother and sister and
I'm attaching a picture. I took a selfie with the gentleman.
His name was Roland, and I was about to send
those in the phone rings and it's my brother in
(13:18):
law and my sister Jackie. Jason and Jackie calling me
and they said, Hey, did you see the picture we
just texted you? No, I'm actually I'm in the process
of texting you both right now. And so my nephew
Jacob was at a traffic light and he saw the
(13:39):
corvette on the back of his trailer leaving. Now, he
had no idea it was covered, right, No, it was
not covered.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
He didn't cover it to move it.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
No, he didn't cover it to move well, honestly, the
reason he wouldn't do that is because covered. If he
didn't have the right way to secure it. He was
driving a long distance, the wind would have scratched the
car the cover.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Would you know, flat cover was from when it was stored.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, exactly. And as he knows. The only scratch on
that car is when I told him that, Yeah, my
wife parked a little too close.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Okay, that's not true. Me parking next to it.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
That was a real He could have got another thirty
thousand for it. Oh scratch, that was.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
A real thing.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Then the nerves of parking next to that thing every
day for three years, two years, Oh, I know, that
was a real nervous one.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I hear my dad's voice constantly. I wouldn't put things
on your voice for that reason.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Your voice, Jody, what did you do?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
So my nephew sees the car awesome, and he texts
that to my sister. And this is not an exaggerated
This is not an exaggeration. My sister at that very
moment is listening to the radio when she gets it,
and this song is playing. No, I am not I
(14:55):
am not kidding you. When she told me that because
they were about to text me, you know, because my
sister knew it was being completed. She was thinking about that,
the transaction was being completed. She it just made her
think about that. Seconds later, she gets the picture from
my nephew of the vet sitting up on the trailer,
and here's a little red Corvette at the same time,
I was like, okay, so this is definitely my dad
(15:17):
here orchestrating this whole thing. You know, the timing of
all of that for my nephew to very coincidentally, I
don't even know it's for my nephew to actually be
right there at that intersection at that time, and for
my sister to be listening to the radio and hearing
that at that time, everything just kind of came together.
So so to me that was the crazy, you know,
(15:38):
emotional part was like, Okay, this is no one can
disprove it, so I'll just choose to believe that somehow
my dad, my late dad, must have had some hand
and all that coincidence going together. But I'm really really
happy for the guy, you know, who bought the car,
because it's it's a love and it's a passion, and
I'm wondering if some of that is a dying passion
(15:59):
depending on who you talk to, I don't know. It's
there will always be motor enthusiasts, there will always be
car enthusiasts, but there's something very special about those original
roadsters of the fifties and the sixties, and you know,
this gentleman is about to celebrate his seventy fifth birthday.
Who bought the you know, bought the car. And he's
as passionate today. And by the way, he's also a
(16:21):
prostate cancer survivor. But a lot of different things. He's
really just he's enjoying what he wants to enjoy, and
his thrill is going to be to get it cranked.
I just told him to look when you do that,
if you don't mind the first time you crank it,
please run video on it. That's a sound that I
haven't heard forever. Yeah, and I would love to hear it.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Now that you have this relationship with him, not that
it's a relationship, but you connected with him and spend
that time with him, I think he'll share it with you.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, I know he will. If not, we have his
we have his number.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Now as he since he's seventy five, is he going
to do it himself or is he hiring folks that
like contracting it out?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
He's going to do parts of it himself. Yeah, he is.
Really he's retired, I guess. Yeah, all the time in
the world. Any of the you know, the stuff that
he wouldn't do would be the if he's got to
drop a gas tank out it, and that's the whole thing.
My dad, My dad took care of that stuff. He
didn't have a drop of gas in it. That tank
is clean, sitting for forty years, no rust clean. And
(17:15):
so his first order of business is to put a
battery in it, put oil in it, and see if
it will rank.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Oh my gosh, when is he doing that?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I don't know yet, huh. And he's probably got to
get the carburetor working and all that because the last
time it cranked, gasoline sprayed everywhere, you know, and that
was forty years ago.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
So great, So what a big day for you.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, so I can't wait to I can't wait, you know,
to hear that. But you know, there's just something really
cool about seeing the joy in others. And that's the
reason I felt really badly for the other two guys
who were interested, also because I wanted to make everybody
happy really, because it's a personal passion for all of them.
It's not just a car.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
There's only so many of those too. Yes, that's that's
another thing.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
They understand how special it was their opportunity to see it,
and they are opportunity to offer, you know, an amount
for it.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
There's only so many of them. Those will not be
made again.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
So well, anyway, I'm proud of you for, you know,
feeling good about letting it go.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
And you have a new parking spot, don't you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I have a bigger parking spot for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
You can fling that door open as heart as you.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I so can't missed any part of the show.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
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