"I don't drive it anymore..."

About 2 months ago I'm walking the dog and happen by a different street than I usually go down. As soon as I take the corner I notice the distinct**** end of a 59 Impala sticking out of a guy's driveway. Well, for the last 2 months whenever I walk the dog, I have brought him by that house in hopes that I'd bump into the guy.
It isn't in perfect shape, it looks good from the driver's side but has some surface rust showing now and the passenger side rocker panel is rusted in front of the door. I figured that the person obviously doesn't drive it and that he might just want to get rid of it, let someone else have a turn.
Well, tonight I finally see the guy. As I take the corner with the dog, the guy was unloading groceries out of the trunk of his 2003 Impala. I ask, "Are you getting rid of the '59?" He said he wasn't. Then he went into the story about how he'd waited 30 years just to get it.
I guess he went to school with the original owner's daughter and finally one day, 10 years ago, she called him up to tell him that it was for sale if he wanted it. He said that he drove it everyday until about 4 years ago when someone hit it in the parking lot at work. So he drove it home and here it sits since that day. I asked which engine it had and he said, "HMMMN, well, I'm not sure, I know it is a V8." I really wanted to look but I was afraid I'd flip out on him if it was a 348. He said that he wants to have the******* rebuilt and the engine smokes quite a bit.

Then he says that he has asked his old friend if she wanted it back in the family and she said that she might. So I don't know what this guys story is. Apparently when he brought it to AZ it had an overheating problem, he said he just had someone rig up a heater core from another car and bolted it up front, next to the radiator. So, I guess I'm just pissed that he won't drive it and won't let anyone else take it off his hands. Even if it doesn't run I could push it home and have it ready to go in a few days. I'm not really interested in the car, but it just bothers me that he just wants it so it can drip oil in his driveway.

 

Quit beein' a****** and just steal that*****er! Put a different vin tag in it and rebuild it.
-Jesse

 

By the time I'm done flat blacking and patching it up it he'd never know it was his. Actually, by the time I'M done with that*****, it'll be 10 years from now, and it would've been better off sitting at his place.