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Yeah. I guess I was a semi-pro. I bought cars, mostly Porsches, I liked and wanted to own but that had a potential margin in them, then sold them within a few months via a mate with a showroom, he took a cut and covered me on his insurance.
It worked ok and was fun times in some ways but it sort of spoiled my hobby a bit as after a while even pretty special cars start to feel run of the mill. I collected a brand new GT3 RS 3.8 in 2010 to sell it on immediately to a bloke in HK. He said it must have under 200 miles when it got to him, but I only bothered driving it the 30 miles from the Porsche centre to the storage place, I wasn't that interested, it was just a car. :(
Hefty-
Interesting!
My uncle used to be a grey import dealer 15 years ago, I've mentioned it enough times in the past, and given the resurgence in people buying imported Japanese cars, I'm really tempted to explore getting involved. If only to fund me making trips to Japan a couple of times a year (or more), and getting to drive all those cars again.
He would buy the cars in Japan, sort everything out, then a bunch of us, him, a couple of other uncles, my dad, and sometimes me, would go overnight to Hook of Holland, meet the cars, then put them on the ferry and drive them back from Harwich.
From Harwich I remember some ridiculous midnight runs in all the Japanese supercars, on Dutch plates, zero fucks given. Standing - triple figures side by side twin turbo Supra and RX7 was one of the highlights.
NurseHolliday
OK I'm going to put this out there, you've owned some pretty punchy cars, have they all been personally owned or some sort of business connection, or did you just throw more money at cars when you were younger and have got more conservative now?