I have resisted a reply because I don’t want to jump in the fray. A lot of hurtful opinion. Hopefully the attitude will change once one attends the show, as suggested. My 1st time was this show. I certainly don’t have $$$. But one thing I have learned from attending this and the SCR’s in Bowling Green, KY., is that egos are put away and if you share the same passion and yearn for knowledge as the ones with the enviable stuff, many a friend can be made in the hobby. Personally, I have made many friends and earned respect as factual a contributor.
I am thankful for wealthy guys. Sure I would like to have a copo or Z or something that I feel I am priced out of the market. I think, if it is meant to be, aka, a blind hog finding an acorn, which someday I hope is the case with me and that certain car falls into my lap. But when I think of a car, like the Ken Stoddard Trans-Am 69Z, I am so glad it fell into the hands of someone capable of doing a correct restoration and the justice done to that car which a fella of average means could never attain. The important thing is, someone wealthy and capable saved that car from certain death. For that and the countless other cars that have fell among prodigious caretakers, I say thank you.
