EVER BUY A CAR FROM A FRIEND?Or sell your car to a friend? We’re talking about a real friend — someone you’ve known a long time, with whom you’ve broken bread, whose family members know your family members. Under those circumstances, if the transfer of ownership of a machine that is likely packed with memories enters the picture, things can get sticky.
A car deal between pals can test even the best friendships. Custom builds are particularly fraught. Are further changes going to be made to the car, and if so, do all parties need to consent? Is it wrong to feel proprietorial about a car that you no longer own? Does the seller need to just let it go already? If you’ve been on either end of this sort of deal, you know exactly The ’Vette was in its used-car, not-terribly-valuable phase when Dennis Anesi of Illinois brought it home in the mid ’80s. Today, the notion of cutting up a factory big-block ’Vette would shock the purist, but back then,
