Have you ever wanted to punch the guy that bought your car!

When I was a teenager, my dad traded a beat-*** old bike for a beat-*** old 69 firebird. Not long afer dad got it, we pulled into the parking lot of a store, and this guy comes running up to us, yelling to wait a minute. I thought the guy was crazy, just turned out that he used to own the car. He told dad all about it, why it had a different color hood and fender (he had his pick of a van in his lane, or a telephone poll.. he took the pole), all kinds of stuff. He was pretty sad about how downhill the car had gotten, but was glad to see it back on the streets after the 10 years since he had sold it.

Anyhow, I often think about where that old malibu I had will be 10 years from now.. I guess that's the price of selling a favored car...

 

no,but i've had times when i wanted to punch the guy i bought my car from (like seeing all the pop riveted duct metal on my nice stock floor pans!)
creepy

 

Sold a 1970 Opel GT once, and a couple years later found it in a junkyard. Looked like the guy drank a gallon too much and played chicken with a Redwood Tree. Not too many of those GT's left, and now there is one less. I think the person might have died, but I never really looked into it.

 

Many years ago I purchased a F 100 and did many modifications to the body ch***is and running gear. The old man I got it from said I runied his truck. So one night after drinking a large amount of adult beverages he poured oil and K1 in the interior and set it on fire.

 

You runied it k9? No wonder he set it on fire!

Sorry, in real life I am an English teacher.

 

That sounds exactly like what I was thinking hotrod54chevy, but did you have 2 quarterpanels and outer rockers on your car? Yeah, you're jealous Sorry, but I would really like to punch the guy I bought my car from.

-jeremy

 

For the record, I have posted as many pictures of the Rocky 33 as Rockster himself!

 

Damn it didn't work Haring.I was trying to see which guy,Tman or Rocky would post a pic fisrt.
I love that truck,glad its got a good home.I thought it woulda been all ****ed up by now,you know,flat blacked,red wheels,www etc etc....Shiny

 

I don't know about punching out, but wanting them to ignore and have them not remember me would be nice.

My THEM! bros, B***, and Buzz all know my secret shame. One of my old cars scares me everytime I see it at an event. I am sure it will be at Goodguys and Sherman this year, the people never miss a show.

My old 49 Ford is now covered in Slyvester and Tweetie images and dolls. It has crystal champaing gl***es and other odd things all over it from time to time. To top it off, the car has often been cry baby doll central and had one on each side. You name it, it has been on the car. Everything from the moving and dancing frog band radio thing to the car hop tray with the fake sodas and food. Yep, car culture at its finest.

I hate seeing that car...and to have people knowing it was mine...ah well, the old koots are having a good time reliving the 50's.

BTW, for years I was really well know with that car because right before I sold it I drove it out to Hanging Dice (the year Stevie Ray died) and I had cheap moondisk copies on it and I was loosing them all the way up to Ark.

People kept comming up to me all weekend saying they saw my disc's here and there...looked like a damn UFO invasion. I got some lancer look alikes from Knightprowlers that weekend and they are still on the car to this day.

 

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Many years ago I purchased a F 100 and did many modifications to the body ch***is and running gear. The old man I got it from said I runied his truck. So one night after drinking a large amount of adult beverages he poured oil and K1 in the interior and set it on fire.

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I hope you kicked the **** out of him!?! What ended up happening? It sounds like you only told 1/2 of the story.

 

I'm not sure about hittin' him,but what he did to the 1930 truck made me sick!

It was a simple little model A,,,kinda restored look but not really,,no door handles,nose in the dirt,big and little wheels and tires and my favorite part a 1950's chris craft boat dash and a metal bed cover with beads rolled in the top to keep it rigid,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and the cover raised from the drivers side to put in gas and tools!

My wife spotted what she thought was the ol' truck in a parking lot in Piegon Forge Tenn. last week at the shades show.

Damn,I got sick when I saw it,,,,,bling,bling wheels and high back bucket seats with ford sewed in the back of the seat,couch upholstery and the bed cover had a ,,,,,,,,,,,Big *** spoiler on it like they put on imports!
and the painted the bed cover with black rhino coating.

The dash was gone and it had stupid gauges in it,,,,,,I wouldn't have it parked in my driveway now

I sold the truck in the late 70's and its for sale again,,,,for $19,000.00 American dollars MORE than I sold it for.

 

High-back buckets and a spoiler on an A truck? There's gonna be a line snaking around the block to punch that guy...

 

My high school daily driver was a '64 Corvair Monza convertible. My father & I did tons of work to the car, including a very decent garage paintjob. The crowning touch was swapping in a hot '66 Corsa 4-carb ex-SCCA engine, it was built well and plenty fast. I loved that car, but halfway through college I had to sell it. The dimwit we sold it to fried the motor within a month and junked the car. When I heard what happened I felt like somebody shot my dog.

 

Damn, HRP that was a good looking little truck and someone went and ruined it? I don't think killing someone for that is a good idea, but I see no harm in putting him in the hospital for a few weeks to give him time to think about what he's done.

Frank

 

the only time was when i sold my 65 chevy2 to a buddy with the agreement if he ever sold it i would get first shot,he sold it afew months later.didnt even tell me .i have wanted to punch my self for selling my cars,50 merc 2dr the chevy2,3 50 chevy trucks.84 chevy duelly was ugly as hell but had killer 454 and 400 turbo trans,

 

I did like Tommy,,,,,,,,I got a replacement for the ol' model A,,,,

My new little truck,,,,,just needs a couple of months work and it should be on the road! HRP

 

i'm more worried about the new owner wanting to punch me if they ever find some of the shortcuts and bodgy repairs i did

 

"so what do you say to the old guy whose car you just bought and chopped?"

...and lowered, and chanelled, and gutted.... yep im that guy. hey if you dont want to sell to car to me... dont.

 

bootie, remind me never to buy a car off you.

 

shipping would kill ya - i don't do anything unsafe - just if i'm fixing a car up to make some money i ain't gonna spend big bucks to get it right more filler than panel work that kinda stuff

 

conversely speaking,
Have you ever wanted to punch the guy that you bought your car from?


I discovered all sorts of nasty things about my A after tearing pieces of it apart to make it roadworthy.

1, Nothing on the inside was painted...just rusty metal.
2, no cotter pins in any of the front suspension
3, ALL brake line fittings cross threaded
4, used flat steel for engine mounts (now boxed)
5, front windsheild frame not bolted in...at all (it's a miracle it didn't fly out).
6, not painted under the vinyl top.
7, patches in the body LAP WELDED and buried in undercoat.
8, rear four bar barely welded in ( talk about chicken $hit welds)
9, 2 bolts holding the entire body to the frame

it's all been fixed now and the car is a safe reliable driver.

 

Chris, that p---es me off, I am nearly as tall as you.

Besides, my street rod will kick your hot rod;s ****.
You did not sell me your car , anyway, just pieces of a car.

I really thought I would own the 62 forever, no thought of selling it.
The guy approached me about trading the gl*** 32 for the Impala, and next thing I knew, the Old red car was gone.

Now the 32 is gone, and I can not really say I miss either.
they are not my cars anymore. and I never placed restrictions on what could or could not be done to them
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Hope Craig don't get mad over what I did to his Plymouth.

Like Roothawg alluded to, they never put conditions on what I could do with the money.

My take is if you sell your car, expect the new owner to do what you would, and that is try to make it his by his personalization of the car.

If you sell it, then the vehicle is no longer yours. Think Henry cares about what folks have done to all those 32 Fords?

I think not.

 

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CWORD -- follow up on your story about your totalled Mustang. Were you implying that the owner didn't make it through the crash?

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I never followed up to find out what happened to him, but from the condition of the steering wheel and windshield I'd say he'd been hit hard enough.

mike

 

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Hope Craig don't get mad over what I did to his Plymouth.

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I love what you did to it.
The colors and style of pinstriping goes well with the car. But even if you did something that I truly hated, It's still YOUR car. If I was that attached, I wouldn't have traded it.

Hood n sides are already off the duce.
That's why we buy em. To make em ours.

Craig