selling cars

[Don Dulmage <big-d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Selling cars , 
A few things i have learned. always wish i had kept them. Once sold a 69 Road Runner for $1750 with fresh paint. I made money too but WHAT WAS I THINKING?
Sold a 63 Post car set up for a street hemi when i tranferred the hemi to my Dart. Could have stuffed a BB in it in a days worth of work too. I munt have been nuts. Sold my (and i am ashamed of this one) 74 Dodge Charger race car for $2500 no motor or headers. I must have been out in the sun too long. Car was very competiive , would run 4 snd 5 runs back to back within .001 seconds , often exactly the same. Sold the motor to a mud bogger. My mind must have been buggered! I have never seen one yet that works like it did. 
Sold a 64 Dodge wagon with the 440 installed and running for arounds a grand (1975." ???????????????
After the sale the money is gone n a matter of days. The good it does seems almost unnoticable compared to the joy of owning and running the car. Have sort of promised myself never to sell the 63 MW car .I dont feel i have another one in me. The V10 is due for a body shop visit and i hate the thought of spending the money but I never had a veheicle i have enjoyed more.I beter hang on to it. 
Every single vehicle we sell will cost more to replace one day  and a lot more than we will get for it now. 
And now for story time. 
I was at the only All Out Pinks held in Canada a few weeks back. It was held at Cayuga where i ran my Hemi Dart long and hard being the fastest car in the Pro class for almost two years. How do i know I had to give everybody else lights. often the whole tree , that is how i know. Never got light myself not once ever.  Anyway i digress. 
During the  afternoon in a lull me and Gary who paid my ticket and dragged me up there went for a stoll in the staging lanes. We met a young fellow from our local track who owns a constuction company and who has been kept Scott Shafiroff in groceries for the last two years.(read $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$)
Gary knows the fellow, i just know who he is so when Gary left for the latrines i tried to keep up a pleasant conversation. As i looked at the staging lanes i realized they had not been touched or repaired since the late 70s which was about the last time I raced there. I commented on that fact. Immediatley this young buzzard was standing in my space with his skinny pointed little nose to mine. "YOU, RACED HERE IN THE ^60s AND &70s ?" he asked rather rudley. "Well yeah" i said," I did." "If that is true,? he snorted looking around at his goney friends for support, "What did you run here?" "Well , i ventured quietely. "As a matter  fact, a Hemi Dart."  " Looking around at his pals he stuck his boney face right in front of my mine . "REALLY!?" he said in disbelief. "Yeah, really." i replied.  Right at that moment I wished i had never sold that Dart or that Hemi. In fact right now i still wish i had it. Money is soon, gone fun can last forever. 
Don
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