Greatest "I found a car" story you have

Great old Wiilys and the GTX is sweet.These are the kind of stories I love.OK,I just got home from buying the stroker and its close enough to Monday that I will give you another one.I used to go through downtown Louisville all of the time and there was a red 1967 GTX that was always parked on the side of the street in front of a row of old shotgun houses.It had 2 spotlights mounted on the windshield posts like a cop car or something.This was not the better part of town. I stopped and left notes on the car about 10 times and got nothing so I started beating on doors all around where it was parked and finally someone told me it belonged to an older black gentleman who lived in this one house so I kind of haunted the place until I got him to come out and talk.He said he bought the car new and it wasnt a cop car but he had the spotlights installed.The original motor was gone but it had a 383 automatic in it. He wouldnt even talk about selling it,and believe me I tried hard to buy it for about 2 years. So one day around 1984 I was at a junkyard down on the Point(The bad side of town back then) and low and behold there was the GTX sitting out front. I went in and talked to the owner and he said he had just bought it for salvage. I told him I wanted the car and he said he would have to have $200 so I snagged it. Now this is the best part.I'm not the only guy who was trying to buy that car for years and when my buddies found out I had it a couple of them wanted it pretty bad. One guy in particular had this gun I had been wanting, a Colt AR15 H Bar match rifle. At the time they were about $365 new but he had a bunch of extra mags and some ammo. We talked and he said he would give me the rifle for the car so we swapped,$400 worth of rifle and accesories for a $200 car,not bad I thought. But the kicker was a few weeks later Bill Clinton and his mob enacted the assault rifle ban which turned my $400 rifle into a $1200 rifle and my buddy will swear to this day that I knew that was going to happen and I screwed him good. I still have the rifle,probably worth $1400 today.