have you ever not sold a car to someone because of what they were gonna do to it

Perfect!

 

What kind of fuck would want to turn that fine car into a dirt track jalopy?
It should be beam-axled and turned into a GASSER!!!!
Isn't that what all the other "I just bought this primo perfectly restored or original old car from someone's grandma and now I'm gonna fuck with it just because thats what we do here!" thread?
And a lot of you guys support that for some ungodly reason?

Remember the look on the guys face who sold his Ranchero(?) to Jesse James and then found out JJ turned it into a half a race life span figure 8 racer?
That guy looked like some posse just gang raped his sister and made him watch.

But then, it IS just a car.
MAYbe you DO have it priced too cheap?
If the dirt track guy comes back, double the price.
If he still pulls out his wallet, triple it.

 

What do you care?!?!? You don't want it or you wouldn't sell it.

Let that guy live his dream.

You never know, he make history, and you can have the self gratification of telling everyone "you sold him his first car"!

Nuzzy

 

Once sold a Ranchero that had a flawless black lacquer job on it. Had to do a bit of touchup on the tailgate so had the buyer come back a month later for the tailgate. He showed up with the Ranchero - seriously there were at least a hundred door dings down each side and the primer was showing on all of them. Made me sick at the time but I've since gotten away from driving or caring about high maintenance body and paint work. The years have gone by too fast with too much time not driving and racing the cars.
A couple of times I've had people not sell me cars for whatever reason. Whatever. Now if I sell something I don't care what happens. If the car is really that valuable, someone else can bring it back to glory someday down the road.
I'm seeing a lot more trailer queens being driven nowadays. Some people freak out about that, but I love it. Even seeing more stuff being driven in the rain here in the northwest. I give them a grin and a big thumbs-up.
It's just a car, for crying out loud, and you only live once. If their weren't idiots in the car hobby there would be a lot less to gripe about here on H.A.M.B.

 

I had a guy trying to buy my 38 Chevy. All he did was tear it down to get me to lower the price and say all that he was going to change on it so he could turn a profit. Didn't mater much to me as long as I got my price but it pissed my wife off and had to promise her I wouldn't sell to him. After all I built the car for her but she was afraid to drive it. It’s still for sale!

 

Haha, NuzzyFipples: that's a GREAT screenname! And the only thing worth reading in this whole thread, goodbye.

 

haha. Check out his avatar pic

 

Some of you guys are arguing passed each other because you are in different circumstances. I see two distinct perspectives in this thread: either you a selling a you "care about" or a car you "don't really care about."

1. If you are selling a car you "care about," then you obviously either need the money or you need to move on to something more important (otherwise you wouldn't be selling it), but you don't want to see your vision totally perish. In that case you feel justified in screening buyers.

2. If you are selling a car that you "no longer really care about" or "never really cared about," then all you care about is getting the best price.

Two guys in different circumstances aren't going to agree on this.

 

Did the guy you bought it from tell you what you could do with it?

Wonder what the previous owner would have thought of this ?

 

Ha. the fella who bought my 66 skylark lifted it and put 24's on it and is currently painting it purple.
He told me what he was gonna do to it fore he bought it. to be honest He was paying what I was asking so I could care less if he drove it off a pier. that car meant a lot to me but it was time to let go.

 

i have. and i haven't when i probably should have.

eventually you just come to terms with the fact that about 90% of people are warped or dense, and stop caring. then you wonder where the beer is.

 

had a 69' chevy short box with 30k original miles on it clean as a whistle. sold it for really good money and the first thing the guy does is yank the 396/400 and replace it with a olds 455/400 combo out of his totaled 71' 442. sold me the old motr back for almost nothing.

 

What about a prospective purchaser that asks about what you are going to do with the money? When you tell him, he just laughs and tells you he no longer wants to buy your ride, because he does not want to see HIS money wasted on such foolishness.

 

Soon as I meet someone who has an emotional attachment to money, I'll let you know.

 

If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand.

 

If you really care that much about a car you need to keep it. Once it leaves your hands you have no right to control what happenes to it. That being said I have let a car go for less than what I was asking simply because I knew it was going to a good home where it would be taken care of. I did witness an incident a few years ago at a friends British motorcycle shop here in NH. He had about 7 restored vintage Triumphs lined up for sale complete with prices listed on the signs. A guy from New Zealand shows up and says he'll take them all and is prepared to pay the asking prices in cash in US greenbacks. My buddy walks over to the bikes and removes the signs and says "sorry I've decided to keep them". Now the New Zealander was polite & all but my buddys reasoning was that the vintage British bike business is a tough way to make a living and there are only so many around in this area. He felt that shipping those bikes out of the country was 7 potential customers who would never come into his shop later on for parts or service. That same guy from NZ showed up at a British Bike meet where they were raffling off a restored Triumph triple with a set number of tickets for sale. He was first in line, bought ALL the raffle tickets and left with the bike. People were not too happy with him after that...

 

well you have to look at it from the perspective of an olds lover usually it's whatever is in yanked and replaced with a chevy, not the other way around , I hope he at least did a nice job, not a hack. How many 455 powered chevy's do you see?

 

I never understood people like that. It's one thing that your going to buy it to flip for a buck and your being honest about that...but why SHOULD I sell it to you for less money just because you want to make a buck on it? Bottom line, I get what I get out of it and I am happy, but I am NEVER going to lower my price just because some wannabe off the street wants to be a dealer. I get someone in my shop at least once a month like that. Now I do it for a living...pay a mortgage, permits, INSURANCE, TAXES.....why the hell don't these people do the same?
I'll wholesale something to another dealer, but I won't ever cut someone off the street a break if I know they are turning it for a quick profit.

 

If I'm getting rid of it and they're paying what I want, I don't care what they do with it. I did have a guy tell me he wouldn't sell me a car because I wasn't going to "restore" it, I had an older friend go buy it since the guy didn't want to sell it to a young hot rodder. We drove the car back by a couple months later all slammed on the ground with a "non-stock" engine, talk about a dude that was about to have a stroke.

 

I once had a guy come and look at a Pontiac I was selling. It was a 73 Firebird, had a Ls6 454 Chev, TH400 with a high stall converter and a nine inch with a detroit locker centre - built to go real fast in a straight line. As we were talking I asked him what he was going to do with it and he said he wanted it to tow his boat...

 

Hell no. No matter what kind of hare-brained scheme they have in mind, I always tell them the same exact thing: "Wow, that sounds cool! Be sure to bring it by when you are done." No one ever has.

-KK

 

How do you think the guy you bought it from feel ?

 

As soon as I have the cash I always say "Now get your junk out of my yard." I'm usually curious about what they plan to do with it, but now its theirs...

 

A guy was in here at work the other day. He was talking about his 54 Ford pee cup. I asked about buying it and he said, "All my kids and grandkids want it. I'd just give it to them if they'd leave it stock...........you know?" He knows me so I didn't ask again, I was already planning what I'd do to it in my head.

 

Your cash is mine, My car is now yours....don't look back...to many stupid people in life to let it worry you...

John

 

When my dad got his 50 merc he had to lie to the guy and say he was not gonna butcher it

 

Yeah, just like "Cash for Clunkers"

Epic FAIL

 

once i traded the model a the new owner could pour gas all over it and light it for all i care.
once you sell it its not yours any more.
plus its not like 50s plymouths are rarer than rocking horse crap.

 

I decided to back out of a deal with my 36 ford 5 window when i heard the guy was going to cut it into a bunch of different pieces and sell some parts and use the others to build a "rat rod." I really needed the cash but have to much love for the car to see a perfectly all original car that was parked since the 50's go out like that.

 

Nope could not care less about what the new owner will do. As long as i get my asking price gooodbye car. Scott