So you’ve just embezzled $8.7 million and you’re into collector cars. So what do you buy?
Well, if you’re 55-year-old former construction company controller Sue O’Neill and her as-yet unidentified partner, you buy a pair of 1969 Shelby GT500 Mustangs — a fastback and a convertible — and a 1953 Mercury Monterey, a 1966 Pontiac GTO, a 1969 Ford Mustang (on which they spent more than $160,000 restoring) and a 1978 Chevrolet Corvette.
At least that’s what the Equipment World website reports, adding that O’Neill and her partner also bought some construction equipment, including a track loader, excavator and trailers.
The website also reported that O’Neill pled guilty and agreed to pay mandatory restitution including more than $400,000 in back taxes and fines. She faces as much as 20 years in prison, with the court scheduled to make that determination in March, 2020.
A 55 Chevy for me and then a 55 T-Bird for my wonderful wife.
Well, I’d buy a 69 Z-28 and a 1967 or 68 Camaro SS, a Chevelle SS, a 69 GTO and a 69 Olds 442 convertible among other things.
But, then, I would be smart enough to live outside of the US jurisdiction so I could keep the money and cars/
The other cars I get, but why a ’78 Corvette? In ’79 I bought a ’69 Mustang notch back with a 302 and a three on the floor with a two barrel carburetor. My favorite thing to do on the turnpike was to was till a new Vette tried to over take me, and then, in third gear, slowly increase my speed till I motored away from it. all the while enjoying the look of consternation of the Vette’s driver’s face in the mirror. Why would anyone want such a dog?
$8.7 million? Well now: ’64 GTO post coupe 389 3×2/4spd/4.33 axle; ’69 GTO Judge 4spd carousel red; ’73 Porsche Carrera RS 2.7; ’28 Bentley 4.5 litre short chassis Birkin spec LeMans; ’30 Bentley 4.5 litre Blower; ’32 Invicta S low chassis; ’78 Ferrari 308 GTB with the 288 GTO steel bodykit; ’64 Plymouth SportFury 426 wedge/4spd; any year Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman armored limousine; the "Munster’s Coach"; ’19 Challenger Hellcat; Mercedes-Benz E class AMG wagon; any Land Rover Defender 110. Probably get some bikes, too- MV Agusta, Nortons & Triumphs, a Laverda Jota for sure, and one of those insane Confederate creations.
And of course citizenship in a country without an extradition treaty with the US, where a little $ goes a long way.