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Marty Grzynkowicz

1959 Intermeccanica, Subaru H2O Turbo (Convertible D-GT) "Le Cafe Macchiato"

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"That damned thing is jinxed "
Nope....you're way off on that & that's how things get out of kilter.

This is what took place:

I built and showed the speedster at Carlisle with positive compliments from Henry and others..
The guy in NYC that buys it the following month from me
He then five weeks later he decides to trade it in on a Lexus in Ohio and take a $10k loss.
The present owner in Kentucky buys it from the Ohio Dealer and does a few mods.
That's the nothing special, boring story about a one off, super nice custom speedster. ~Alan
You're just too close to it . . .

If you knew NOTHING about the deal and I told you about this Speedster that was built by this guy who really didn't think that he'd EVER sell it! That it was going to be the last Speedster that he EVER built. BUT he sold it just ONE MONTH after showing it.

And the guy who bought it and supposedly LOVES it then trades it on another car in just a little more than ONE MONTH after buying it and takes a HUGE loss on it to boot!

An THEN some OTHER guy buys it and even HE doesn't keep it and it goes up for sale yet AGAIN ! ! ! !


You'd say, "MAN, that car is FUCKED ! ! !"

And I'd say right back at you, "YUP, you're RIGHT ! ! ! It's gotta be jinxed ! ! !"



You're just too personally involved here. That car is somehow, someway fucked up. Not your fault. But I wouldn't take it for free if part of the deal was that I had to keep it. Too creepy, too jinxy!



The replica hobby of building selling and buying is a 16 year continuing story that has at times approached near insanity.
Each time I buy or sell each has it's own unique chapter with little rhyme or reason.
From unknowingly arriving in Indiana at the front door of basketball star Larry Byrd's home to buy a CMC speedster.
Seeing a custom high end speedster in Manassas,Va. and stumbling on that same car just a mile or so from my house some 9 years later and buying it for a song then selling it to a divorcee for her 16 y/o son to have "second car" . I deliver the speedster a few days later to find that he'll park speedy next to his new GTO that the long legged tiny butt Mommy also just bought him.
Driving in NJ, we stop at a place to eat dinner and the young waitress asks about the Bradley and if it's for sale....by the time we have desert, her Granny arrives with cash in hand to sponsor the girl's purchase ....and it goes on and on. ~Alan
Cool stories. You ought to write 'em down and share them all with us. Kind of like a story hour. I know that I'd LOVE to hear them ! ! ! !

It must be different with various Speedsters and kit cars, more personal because of the build and also because the buyers are taking something of you with them when they get the car. Different from just selling the family truckster.

Share some of them with us some day, OK?





FoRUm PriCk

If I can get what I want for the triple black VS, it will sell if not, I'll drive it well into the Fall season, it's a very nice solid driver and gets a lot of attention.
I enjoy change in the toy box inventory a bit more often that most others do, I have nothing new in mind right now other than a in progress Berrien Nostalgia street buggy build. This has been on my "Bucket List" for many years, will sell it when done and if lucky break even.....Ribbing permitted and encouraged :)
As the current owner and now seller of the white wide body I can say that the car is cursed by having had the worst owners possible. She had Alan, who has never owned a car long enough to change the oil in it; the guy in New York, who did not know the engine was in the rear and gas tank in the front, so had to trade before she needed a fill-up; me, who had her parked in the front space of a deep garage and having her blocked by a new Boxster S that got to see all of the good action this summer. I hope she can change her luck and that her next owner will buy her as a second car with his first car being a four door econobox.

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Sorry Tom, I thought we talked about the spot in the back on the paint, I did not have transmission fluid on the garage floor and guess I did not know what a VW motor should sound like, besides you know Alan paints his cars with a brush and roller and orders his motors and transmissions direct from Mexico.
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