Ever Have This Happen To You?

I was talking to a insurance adjuster yesterday. We get to talking and he says sounds like you know your way around cars. I tell him I've been fooling with them since I was 15, I'm now 61. He says he bought a 56 Chevy Nomad from someone last year that is liquidating their husband's old collection. He tells me they still have a 56 Olds 2- dr. post for sale. I ask him what price range and condition. He says stored for about 30 years in great condition about 56,000 original miles. I tell him I'm interested and ask for the person's phone number or address. Then comes the song and dance. He says they are super secretive, don't like strangers, if they don't know you they don't want to fool with you. I ask him if he knew them. He said no, not really. I asked then how did he get to know them well enough to purchase the car. He says he went through a friend of a friend. I asked him to put me in touch with the friend or the friend's friend. He said I'd rather not. Long story short, I told him sounds like a bunch of B.S. to me. I hate people like that. It is suppose to be somewhere in Kentucky near Louisville. No more information.

 

some people just like the sound of their own voice.

 

He wanted you to be impressed, then you called his bluff and ruined the story.

 

I think the two posts above me hit the nail on the head.

 

That's why I sing in the shower.................

 

Your first mistake was talking to an insurance adjuster!!!

 

That sounds about right to me too.

 

the "my brothers neighbor bought a dog off a guy the knew a fella....." story

 

90% of men sing in the shower, the other 10%***********.

Do you know what song most sing?

 

Happens a LOT at cruise nights ect.

I know a fellow with a 32 Ford " just like this "
Then when asked ... the fool always has a weird response

1 ) forgot how to get there
2 ) was sworn to keep it a secret
3 ) turns out is it a Model A
4 ) It is in three states over ... ( like that would stop me )
we all know I will travel ... to get a car ...

As a general rule ... they are liars and just trying to impress you.
Every now and then ... you will get a real, true lead on a decent car.

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You could've saved a LOT of typing by just asking if we ever run across people that are full of*****. YES, every day. Some idiots must think they get some kind of acrued(sp) credit for lying. Hell, I got a friend that takes one of my childhood stories and tells it back to me as one of his own days later.

 

That sounds suspiciously like a trick question.

 

Right on groucho. People are full of*****. A guy told me his car whooped**** on this car he'd seen at the track go 9s. The guys wheels were in the air and we still beat him. I just smiled and agreed what a fast and powerful car they have there. BTW, it's a hydraulic-cammed 350 in an all steel Chevelle with a 650 Holley and no N2O, and I'll bet you knew that before you finished the story.

I was told of a Ferrari 288 GTO for $200,000 several years ago right in my home town. I said "I'll take it." "Yeah, right..." "No, I'll take it and give you a 10% finder's fee." It got to where he was waiting for a phone call back (it's his buddy who was overseas for the month) then to where the guy didn't want anyone to see it unless they had cash ready to buy on the spot, no checks. I even agreed to that and 2 weeks later, "Man we waited too long. It's sold. He let it go for $150,000 too." The funny part was how put out he was that I didn't care.

 

iam in the other 10%

 

Did he show you a picture of the car he was bragging about ??? >>>>.

 

Not sitting in a field but behind the store where the owner works. I think the same guy has owned the car since new or almost new and he drives it almost daily. I'd like to have a dollar for every time someone has tried to buy it off him.

I don't even count the times that guys tell me that they had a truck exactly like mine "except it was a____________ and wasn't chopped and didn't have suicide doors" but it was exactly like mine only a Dodge.

 

Had a neighbor kid offer me a 65 vette convert. cheap, told him I'd take it, started giving me the long story. Turns out it was his neighbor's car and the guy was on vacation when he decided to borrow it and act like it was his.

 

Damn Bob that's getting kinda personal aint it ??? >>>>.

 

the funny thing about people who make***** up all the time is they think we believe them when in reality we don't believe anything they say unless it can be proven.

 

What about the guys who sing while they***********Hint it's one of Mike's songs.

 

Yes.

 

I had a guy try the same BS story on me at Woodstock....or maybe it was when I was a Navy Seal.

 

ROFLMAO........."Beat It " !.........LMAO

 

Is it: "My one skin lies over my two skin...........
My two skin lies over my three......................
My three skin lies over my.................................""""

 

I get it sometimes and I always say I can have the money in 5 minutes Lets GO!!
Then the him hawing starts. I thought the song was Stroooke me by Billy Squier

 

A '56 Olds 2-door post? That's no holy grail.

 

I guess that's why I got into Model A's....Millions were made....the price was even low enough so I could get a collection of them together. There are so many repop parts made at a realistic cost. Every hot rod builder in the USA makes reasonable chassis parts available.

But an old timer did pull into the driveway last month telling me about his mom's '31 Chevy Woodie wagon...just like my '28 Ford Model A custom made station wagon/hack......

Being a car guy you know it's gotta be better than having a stamp collection or a bug collection...
unless it's VW bugs....

 

Well on Long Island there was a 1966 or so Corvette with FI and the knock off hubs, the baddest & best Vette you could get.

The only problem was that the owner came home one night bombed and parked in the garage, passed out and no one found him for a few weeks. The decomposition was so bad that no matter what was tried, the smell never left the car and everyone that looked at the gar gagged and passed on the purchase.

After numerous people telling that story and 30 or so years I left LI in 2005 without getting a chance to buy it. It had to be true if so many people knew the story...

 

At 61 you should be well versed in that*****. Its happens 1 to 2 times a week. Part of the game.30 BSiters and a mother load of cord or 32 parts make it worth it all.