Like the Stones Classic....."You can't always get what you want......"

We all remember the Rolling Stones classic- "You can't always get what you want....But if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need." I get tired of people who say they want to buy a musclecar and then whine that they can't find a car they want for a reasonable price. With Hemmings, and the Internet, these people need to get over themselves. I ran a post last year titled "There is no used car factory" that was quite popular. In it- I simply stated that most of the cars were looking for are at least 30 years old and the chance of you finding the color you want, with the inteiror you want, and the engine / transmission / axle ratio you want is pretty unrealistic. It's still true, but these whiners are just too picky. I was talking with a friend about Trans-Am Specialties of Florida. They sell all kinds of musclecars, but they specialize in T/A 's. I was showing him the site, and telling him that I might be buying a car from them, as they had an awesome inventory, and everything I researched about them was positive. They had all years, and configurations, but they had quite a few Black "SE" cars from 1977-79-i.e. The Black and Gold "Smokey and the Bandit" model. He claimed that he'd love to have one of these. They had frame-off restorations, and they had 20,000 mile unrestored originals. They had 400 / 4-speeds, 400 Automatics, 403 Olds / automatics, models with T-tops, with Vynil seats, with cloth seats, with Rally II wheels, with 7 and 8 inch Snowflake wheels, with aftermarket wheels. As he turned up his nose at car after car that was absolutely pristine and reasonably priced i finally got pissed and said-"Your just playing Devil's Advocate."  "There's at least 10 cars here that I might buy, and I don't even really want a black one." His gripe was all the "SE" models had T-Tops, and that he'd had a bad experience with a '70's Camaro with T-tops-they leaked when it rained or when he went through a car wash. I scrolled down and found a Black on black '77 model with the 400 / 4-speed powertrain that had was priced at a reasonable $24,900. "Here's one without T-Tops." "Year one sells the SE striping kit, and the Gold dash panel and the gold steering wheel." There's your dream car."  "Or-Gasp!- Maybe you could just live with a black one that's not an "SE!"  "Your being sarcastic now." he snapped "No- I said- my dad bought a T/A brand-new in 1978, I went to the dealer to help him order it."  "And guess what?" "The SE package only came with T-tops." "You could buy T-tops without the SE package, but you couldn't buy an SE without T-Tops." "That's why my dad didn't buy an SE".  He didn't want T-tops. So we bought a Chesterfield Brown, W72, WS6, 4-speed hardtop model."  "Your so-called dream car never existed!!"  "I swear I've seen hardtop SE's"  He protested. "Nope." Then they weren't real SE's, they were base models that someone gussied up."  When I showed him the Nocturne Blue '79 that I was lusting after-he said-dead serious-"It's got 7 inch Snowflake wheels on it." "I know." I replied.  "I can live with them on such a pristine car, although the 8 inchers do look better." "Or if I absolutely HAVE to have the 8-inchers, Year One sells them for $169 each."  "If I spend 20k on the car, I think I can spring another $676 for the wheels I want." "These guys specialize in T/A's. I'm sure they could put 8 inch Snowflakes on it, before they shipped it to me, if I actually bought it."  "Hmmmph" he sneered. "I wouldn't buy a car with wheels I didn't like."  "That's why you'll never own a decent musclecar at any price." I snapped back. "Your to f*&%kin picky."  So next time you hear some one whining that they can't find a car they like at a reasonable price, don't even acknowledge it; Their an idiot like my co-worker that's going to find soemthing wrong with everything. These are the guys who say they wouldn't have sex with Angelina Jolie because she has tattoos or with Pam Anderson because she's got breast implants. Guess what guys-Angie or Pam wouldn't have YOU if you were the last man on earth, and your never going to find a car either. Mastermind.