In 1997 my father passed away and I had his 1979 two door Chevrolet Caprice shipped out west from Ontario.

I drove for about three years and didn't do much to it except having the transmission rebuilt. It was a great car but

with four kids aged 16,14,12 and 10  it really wasn't a car for my troop. I bought a Suburban and parked 

the Caprice on the pad in the backyard. Go forward 23 years, I'm now 76 years old and the Caprice is still there.

Looking at it the other week I decided I'm never going to do anything with it so I threw it up on Kijiji for sale.

I got a lot of interest and a dozen people wanting to buy it.

Trying to be fair,I set up a viewing process starting with the first person who answered the ad and was interested in buying it.

The first guy came , looked, and gave ne a $100 dollar deposit, all in ten minutes. He said he was buying it for a collector.

The 2 door Caprice was the only model the collector didn't have from that era.

The car will be shipped to Holland where it will be totally restored to factory condition. That's something I never expected to happen.

The buyer told me I would be updated on the progress of the rebuild.

 I'm sure my father would be pleased knowing his Caprice is going into a car collection in Europe.

-G