ok here it goes, i told the story a long time ago on another forum....
in 1999, my father in law purchased a 93 for himself. his friend had bought a 93 brand new and my father in law went for a ride in it, ever since that ride he said someday he would buy one, fast forward to 99, his buddy, who owned a collision shop called him one night, said he was on his way back from connecticut from the auction and was driving a 93 mark VIII, he knew my father in law had wanted one, so he said i dont know anything about this car other then its going down the highway great, so he says if you want it as is, $1,100 bucks its yours, that night we met steve at his shop with some flashlights and looked the car over, took it for a ride, paid the man cash for it, so my father in law starts to tinker with it in the next few weeks cleaning it up and fixing things that were wrong with it, well, he needed a few parts for it, he knew steve had two more at his body shop that were both is severe accidents, both totalled but still running, non driving. he asked steve to sell him some parts off them to fix the one he bought, but steve says i'll tell you what, you can have both of them for 600 bucks with titles, so pete bought both the cars and took what he needed, but there were a few things he coulsnt salvage from either one, so he jumped on ebay to look, and saw tons of parts listed for mark VIII's so he looked at me and said what do you think about taking both of those cars completely apart and see if we can get back the money it cost to buy them, i said sure i'll do it, so we tore them apart, listed the parts on ebay and low and behold 7 years later and some 500 + mark VIII's later and we're still doing it, we have a friend who is a dealer here who buys them at the auction for us, we also have another friend back up in mass who is tied in with the tampa salvage auction who can get them for us over the internet, they mail him the titles in mass and tow the cars over to our shop, and we also buy them private party any where we can, ebay, craigslist, or just find one driving down the road. its a fluke we stumbled upon 7 years ago and now its just totally out of control, the phone rings off the hook, and the emails come in so fast you can never get ahead of them. not bad for accidentally coming across it!! i never had a care in the world for the cars, and when we started i didnt even know what a mark VIII was till pete bought his 93. i never cared for them, until about 3 years ago i bought my first one, my 97 lsc. a year after pete bought the 93, we took it apart too and he bought a toreador red 97 lsc, and when i saw it, i hated it, i thought the new nose looked like doo doo. but over time i got used to it, then i loved it, and hated the gen 1. then i finally bought my first one in 2004, my 97, i loved it and them bought my wife a 93. i said if this is what i am going to do for work, i might as well own the car i take apart, that way if i need to fix it, i have the parts. then i tore my 97 apart to pay for my 98, i bought it for 6 grand cash all in 20's, then i sold my 93 to buy my wife another 93, her favorite color, deep jewel green with mocha interior, as long as i do this, i will own these cars, i love them so much now, i cant see myself in another car, i would love a marauder for a family car, but i would never give up my 98 for anything. i'm a total diehard mark VIII guy now through and through, and some day when i have jeremi's kind of money, i'll be joining the supercharged mark VIII club too, i have aome of the parts lined up already, like an eaton supercharger and fuel rails and injectors, but its a long way off still unless i happen to come across a miracle!! thats my story you can all wake up now!
i bought it for 6 grand cash all in 20's,