Welcome friends, Let me tell you a little story...
I've been lost project car wise for quite sometime now. I have had a seemingly long string of cool cars that should have motivated me, but did not. It seems all I had been doing was buying a car, collecting parts, losing interest and selling for a loss. This year as I approached the 1 year anniversary of buying my C4 Corvette project I realized that I had invested probably $5000 in it and not worked more than 10 hours on it in the last year. I didn't have time and when I did, I couldn't find the motivation to go do the work. I did some soul searching and put the Corvette up for sale. I was done. No more project cars. Between work, Family and Music I had very little time left to build cars/bikes. The next vehicle to enter the garage needed to be fun, but also running and driving... Something I could enjoy and do improvements to, but not a build.
I sold the Corvette at a loss to a 15 year old who had mowed lawns for a year to save money, but not enough to pay my asking price. I lowered my price to make it work for him. If I was going to lose money anyway, it might as well be to help keep the hobby alive. Honestly, it felt really good. He and his father loaded it up and headed for home. Within 2 weeks, he had it running and driving. I look forward to him taking me for a ride in his car someday!
About that time, a couple of other things happened that guided me to a hopefully happy place.
First, my youngest sons truck blew up. Teenage shenanigans may have played a significant part in that, so I let him suffer a little.. He daily rode his motorcycle to work for a good 2-3 months, all weather because he had to while he tried to pull money together to buy a vehicle. At the time I was driving my 1st gen beater CTS 6spd daily and though it needed a timing chain, it was pretty solid as a driver. To help him out and to give him a break from the bike I decided to sell him the CTS CHEAP so he could continue to save money and take the $2000 I had in my garage fund and buy a new daily driver for me. Only criteria I had was that is was easy to work on, a manual transmission, fun and... Bonus points if these wheels fit it...
I bought this set of C5 magnesium wheels for the Corvette for $300 and spent another $500 in tires for them. I removed them when I sold the Vette to make the loss not hurt as much. I had the wheels tires for sale at the time, but If my new daily could wear them, all the better. So the search was on.
About the same time, I had the opportunity to buy a car that had been part of my life for about 20 years, but never "mine" I had always wanted it, but timing was never right. It is a Running, driving, obscene amount of fun type car... a deal was struck and we brought it home.
Cliff hanger time, because lunch is over and I need to get back to work... feel free to Guess the daily and the new toy! If you know, don't spoil the fun for the others... :-)
Ill post the answer on the daily here ASAP and start a new thread for the Toy as well!
