In the Spring of 1966 I was already a car nut at the age of 8. I tried like heck to get my Dad to buy a 1966 Belvedere with a hemi in it but he went with a 4-door Buick Wildcat. We lived about 1/2 mile from McPeak Plymouth and would ride my Stingray over there to drool over the Hemi Belvederes and later the GTXs and Roadrunners. As a senior in high school I bought a 383 Roadrunner coupe with a 4-speed but that was sold after college and life got in the way. All these years later I still think about those 66 and 67 Hemi Belvederes, Satellites and GTXs.
So now as I'm about to sell my business and retire I will have the extra fun money to buy one of these dream machines. There seem to be a handful available online and the same ones seem to be for sale today as when I first started looking a couple of months ago. I just do not know where to begin. I would prefer a Belvedere II with a 4-speed over a Satellite or GTX but any of them would really work for me. I don't really want to fly all over North America to check out all the available ones in person, so I guess I'm asking what is the best way to approach this kind of sale? I have never purchased a car sight unseen. I don't want a fake or clone. $75,000 is a lot of money for me and I have one chance to get this right.
So now as I'm about to sell my business and retire I will have the extra fun money to buy one of these dream machines. There seem to be a handful available online and the same ones seem to be for sale today as when I first started looking a couple of months ago. I just do not know where to begin. I would prefer a Belvedere II with a 4-speed over a Satellite or GTX but any of them would really work for me. I don't really want to fly all over North America to check out all the available ones in person, so I guess I'm asking what is the best way to approach this kind of sale? I have never purchased a car sight unseen. I don't want a fake or clone. $75,000 is a lot of money for me and I have one chance to get this right.