I go to a good number of classic car shows and swap meets throughout the year. I remember, in October of 2007, having this feeling of dread in the air. One thing, that seemed different, was there was an unusually high number of Corvettes for sale at this particular swap meet. Usually, the Corvette crowd tends to stick to Corvette-specific meets and swaps, and I get the feeling they don't change hands as often as a lot of other classic cars do. The Corvette seems like one of those types of cars that people lust for all their lives, and then when they finally get one, they keep it until you pry it from their cold, dead fingers. So, for a bunch of them to be up for sale, that just told me something was amiss, financial-wise.