Does such a thing as a bargain muscle/performance car still exist?

[SOUNDMAN5000]

I am blessed in that my wife of nearly four decades has never given me any grief over my automotive acquisitions.

A friend of mine related this story from automotive industry legend Bob Lutz:

"A guy marries his longtime girlfriend. Shortly after marriage, she finds him in the garage cleaning his beloved Jaguar E-type and says: 'Now that we're married, I think you should sell that thing and get something more sensible.'
Long pause. Then he says: 'You know, for a minute there, you sounded just like my ex-wife!'
She: 'I didn't know you were married before!'
Says he, quietly 'I wasn't."'

I'm divorced and remarried, hitting 25 years of marriage next year!
I am blessed to now have a wife that said a few years back when I got that itch. "You should buy that new Harley but you can't sell the old one", Boy a wife like that is a KEEPER!

Then I have a great old ridding buddy that one day out of the blue decided to sell his Harley.

I been riding a Harley almost 30 years now. I will admit I had a year that I did little riding, life was in the way but during my down time my ridding buddy sold his bike!

a few years back I rekindle my passion and love of riding this time I went over the top, I purchased a few more bikes so now I have a garage full and ride almost every nice day I can!

My buddy sold his bike! His wife will now not allow him to purchase a new Harley. No IF and are BUTs, The answer is NO!

I am unclear if its the money, I think its more what IF something happens kinda thing but I honestly do not know?

My buddy will tell Me " I don't even know why I sold it? It was paid for, sitting in a storage building hurting nothing but someone wanted it so I sold it, Why did I do that he always ask me? why? why did I sell it?

Then I had another friend who purchased a Harley, he and his wife split a Airbnb one bike week with my wife and I. I'm not sure what happened but something during that bike week spooked her and she refused to ride with him again so the remainder of bike week he and his wife were in the car all week and I never seen them as I was riding all week.

My buddy sold his bike a few weeks after his return home and from time to time said he always regretted selling it.


I will never understand a married couple who tries to change the other... You can try, but in the end you can't.
No my buddy has never actually purchased a new bike as his wife won't allow it, but its in his heart, in his mind and on his mind all the time, every time he and I talk... What kinda crap is that?