The back story on this 129 mile specimen is cray cray
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Ok this is the story behind this car .
I myself don’t know to much about Corvettes so bear with me if I’m a little slow on the answers.
My friend (D ) was arrested and taken in to county jail he call me and begged me to bail him out I said I would but would need some kink of collateral.
His girlfriend ( L ) offered this car as collateral, but had no paperwork no plates no registration . Her story was that it was her late fathers car and had been stored under cover in his garage for 30 years .
I visited ( D ) in jail and asked about the car and he confirmed that it was legit . I ran the vin but nothing came back it’s like this car never existed . I felt for my friend being locked up and agreed to bail him out .
After he got out the was delivered to me on a flatbed tow truck, I knew it wouldn’t run and also knew it was going to take more money to get it to a point where I could sell it . Looking back at this now I would have said no to my now ex friend but that’s another story.
I went into the DMV to register it and find out how to get ownership papers on it . They said the car was dropped from there system as it was registered only one time and never renewed .
They took my money and sales tax and issued a temporary registration and said I would have to get the original owner to sign off on it . Well that wasn’t going to happen .
By this time ( L ) was in county jail on a old warrant. I had to get someone that was a notary to go into the jail and have ( L ) sign a bill off sale.
So to cut to the chase two years later with numerous letters back and forth to the DMV , inspections and a pile of paperwork I finally got the ownership papers, I cleaned out the gas tank replaced the fuel pump and filter had aaa come out a d make a key took it to a mechanic and had the injectors cleaned three times as they were so blocked up , had some used tires installed and it was running at this point it had 105 miles on it .
I had to take it for a little spin and it ran great nothing like my present car but all in all felt strong the engine needed to be broken in but I didn’t want to put a few hundred miles on it .
While the mechanic had it the oil a d filter was replaced and the car in general was sound .
Now the story goes like this the father of ( L ) who had passed away brought the car as a prize to be given away at an illegal casino he was running out of his house something happened that night at the casino ( his house ) he was involved in what I was told was a mu_ _ _ er he left the house and the car and all his belongings and never returned to claim anything .
29 years later he passed and ( L’s ) sister had something to do with his strange and untimely demise. Forged his signature on a few documents and claimed all his business , land ,cash and house . I already had position of the car so she didn’t get that .
Hope this was of interest
Sweet dreams