Hey guys. No one on here knows this, but I am a freelance writer for a local business magazine. My editor wants me to do a story about people from Pittsburgh who are currently or have just restored muscle cars that they owned/drove during their teenage years.
I am looking for anyone who is 40+, is in the business field, and has a college/graduate degree.
If you know anyone who fits this, and wouldn’t mind showcasing their car and work in a local magazine, please let me know. Post up here, PM me or email me.
One of my good friends /co-worker has the same 69 LeMans he got when he was 16. He just restored it a couple years ago. Doesn’t exactly fit your description but close. Degree from Purdue. About 37 or 38 and software tester.
my dad is 56, has his own business, has a certification from rosedale for auto repair and we just got done restoring our 70 buick GS last year and my 83 hurst is in the final stages of resto. thats doest exactly fit ur criteria thou because of no college degree.
It’s what the editor/owner of the magazine wanted the magazine to be geared towards: professional, college-educated Pittsburghers reading about other professional, college-educated Pittsburghers.
those are the exact bastards that infultrated the market and drove the fuckin cost of muscle cars up. white collar 40somethings that found out classic muscle cars were trendy…
that criteria thou in pittsburgh will be hard to comeby. most of those people are rollin benz, bmw, lex.
Yeah, I’m finding that out right now. It’s sucks because I know people who have these cars from their past and are rebuilding them, but they don’t fit into the requirements for the magazine. I’m grasping at straws right now.
No your wrong… its those same people that made my dads COPO worth $250,000+… if you know what your doing, let those bastards pay a nice house for a car like that… ill buy em, restore em and sell them for 50k+ profit ALLLLL day long
I agree on both ends… its those kinda people that drive the market up, yet also the people that have enough interest to keep the movement alive.
My pops has been through millions of dollars worth of corvettes with the photoalbums to prove it… he was the one taking totaled big block or lt1 corvettes and rebuilding them to perfect condition. Without people like that, there wouldnt be these cars today. …its not his fault though that he got pulled out of PIA to go to vietnam and then persued vettes there-after.
well i hate the business of it… i’m in it for the hobby. its fine if you already have one… if ur wanna build one for urself to keep thou, its ruined. POS cars sell for way too much.
Well I understand what you are saying… but if you want to build one for youself to keep, why build a Yenko or COPO thats worth so much money… just buy a regular one, put a nice motor in it and have fun, you can do that for like 30k… I dont think thats much…
On the same hand tho, if you can find these super rare cars off of old people that dont know better, or women, etc… you can make a house off of one… just gotta look in the right places, etc…
