} I'd laughed as I read the posting about pre-purchase inspection. I mean,
} we're poor college students. Our purchase check list goes something like
} this. Is it under $1000? Do we have another uncle/aunt who'll let us park
} it in their garage/barn? Did it used to look like a Brit car? Did the
} engine once run? Is their more steel than rust? Could it possibly live
} again? Does it call to us?
A month or so before I bought my GT6+, I got a hold of the checklist from
the hoosier archive. I tried to follow it when looking at the car, but (as
someone brilliantly observed a while ago) no matter how I looked at the car,
it appeared to me as if it had just rolled off the showroom floor.
As I was leaving, I caught a glimpse of it out the rear-view mirror of my
truck. Yuck! Aha! That's the ticket! I ripped the rear-view out of the
truck and completed my inspection only viewing the car in reflection from
the mirror! At last I could see the primer, bondo, rotted rubber trim,
trashed interior, and rodent droppings in the engine compartment.
It was a rainy day in Seattle, and at this moment the mirror fogged and I
was forced to turn around and gaze directly at the car. I realized that the
image I had seen in the mirror must have *really* been the illusion, and I
forked over the cash.
- Chris
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