Car kharma? very, very long

[naplesZ]

I think I have figured out why Everything happened with my car. Let me give a little back ground info.

Time line

-Bought 78 280x for 700.00

-Drove car twice and was told that it had a blown head gasket.

-Car sits for close to a year while I read hybridz everyday and wait for money to do something.

-Finally get money and have car taken to Neapolitan mechanic. (if you ever been to Naples you know the difference)

-Told that the car not only has a blow cracked head but also a cracked piston.

-Decide to commit to car and order all new pistons and rings for car and various other parts and find a head used somewhere.

-Couple of months later I still can't find a head that doesn't need to be rebuilt. This is a problem Because I don't trust the mechanic to do It right.

-Around this same time I remember that the previous owner told me the military had lost the title to the car. The mechanic saying he's going to have to take the engine to a another shop that specializes in rebuilding motors. In classic Neapolitan behavior he can't give me a solid price for how much all of this will cost.

- With pressure being put on me by the military to do something with my car because the inspection has been expired for almost a year and the facts that with the exchange rate and the unknown price is coming close to 3500 to 4000 dollars for a car that I don't have a title for and will have to pay around 1800 to ship back to the states.

-So I decide to cut my losses and scrap the car.

-Another six month go by and I still haven't scraped the car. It turns out a new guy at work has a friend that owns the only other 280z around. We come to a dill and I sale him the car and all parts for 500$.

-Several months later ( two months ago) I go to the scrap yard to turn In what left of the car.

As I am doing this I notice that there is a bunch of paperwork sitting on the seat. As I am going through it I come to an envelope with the original title in it.

Now for the reason I believe this was karma.

one year prior to the purchase of my z I came across a 79 280z. I started talking to the guy and turned out he wanted to sale it. In the end I decided not to buy for several reason most of all being that it was an automatic.

To make a very long story short I think the universe was trying to tell me that It had given me what I wanted once and I had been a dumb *** so it was going to teach me a lesson.

 

Sorry so long, but I think of this everyday as I read all the post on this site.