On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Ralph Walter wrote:

> > I love the one that you get presented with about the Corvette in which some
> > guy died in it, and they can't get the smell out.  You can have it for
> > $500.00.
>
> The dead guy in the car story is a true story that a friend of mine from
> Jersey City told me-- and he was the one who had bought the car.

Probably it has happened dozens of times -- after all, people spend so
much time in their cars that some of them are bound to die in them, even
without help from other vehicles or immovable roadside objects.

It has to be a Corvette, because there are specialists who can get the
smell out of any conventional car with a steel body.  Corvettes are
plastic.

> The apocryphal 'Vette story is that the owner ran off with his
> girlfriend/secretary, telegraphed his wife and asked her to sell his
> treasured 'Vette immediately for whatever she could get for it, and send the
> money to him.  So she put an ad in the paper, offering it for $500.

This story has been done with every different kind of expensive car.  It's
even a song now.

                               Larry

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