New upper trim level Corvette or seven year old used amps?

in 1978 I bought a pair of Klipsch LaScala speakers for $1100, sold them 30 years later for $1100

I’m a Hot Rod’er at heart, audiophile lags 2nd. Currently race NHRA Superstock classes. I drive and my older brother is my crew chief. Have for the last 20 years. I remember before getting the racing bug having a couple Corvettes. A 1973 L-82 targa blue full option car, and a Bright Red 1986 Lingenfelter 383 package. I remember a co -worker coming in my shop one day saying "I was thinking of you last night" . I of course ask why. He says I was at the strip mall last evening and I witnessed a brand new shiny white Corvette pull up against the curb double parked and this little white haired man struggling to get out of it. My co worker then went on to say he had a cane, and we were walking step per step as we headed down the sidewalk. "That’s an awfully good looking ride you got there sir",. The old guy thanks him for the compliment, then goes on to say "I always wanted a Corvette my entire working career. But my wife Suzie would never let me have one". At this point, their two paths split, one headed into one store and the old guy headed into another one, but even at a distance, you could still hear him say " But she died "…….

There is nothing like a new ride, especially one of those new Corvettes