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

So Last night I drove over to my parents house and stopped at a parking lot cruise. I notice a guy that bought my 58 t-bird and asked him how it was doin' for him. Turned out we were actually standing next to the freshly billitized piece of sh*t He left the top chopped (obviously) but threw some huge billet wheels and engine/intior junk on it and it had the gaudiest paint job I've ever seen! He musta thought he bought a Honda I feel better now. Have any of you had this problem.

 

Got any "before" pictures?

 

<font color="red"> I love when folk rant about what somebody did to their OLD car....if ya loved it so muchwhy did ya sell it....if ya sold it why are you *****ing?

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At least he looks after it (sort of), as opposed to driving it into the ground and trashing it.

Unlike the ***hole who bought my first ever motorcycle off me. (I'd kept it in immaculate condition, all polished and clean)

I saw him a few weeks after I sold it, great dent in the gas tank, scratched all over, filthy, dented exhaust pipe. ***hole told me "it's only a ****in' bike and I'll soon dump it when I get a car, so why look after it"

I coulda punched him out on the spot

 

I have seen some real abortions made of my old cars, but as disheartning as it is, I really don't care. If I sold it, shame on me, but I usually sell something to get another car that is much better than what I had. Everyone has different tastes, and when I've bought cars, even finished ones, the first thing I do is go home and figure out how I can hack it up and make it my car.

 

I feel your pain. I sold my 70 ******* to my bro-in-law and he is always calling and asking for help with it. In 3 months he has busted a PS hose and froze up the pump, blew out a tire, spun a bearing and fried the wiring harness. To top it off he is making payments on the damn thing.

 

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I have to agree........So help for the future. alwasy sell your rides outside of the state you live in. That way the chances of running into them are very slim

 

Did you ever want to punch the guy that got your old money?

 

yEs

 

I normally want to kiss people that buy my cars.

 

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Yeah I can relate. My old 34 pick up. I sold it to get money to go into business. You do what you gotta do. Later I tried to find it and when I did, I found that it had been tubbed. Yeah hugh Mickey Thompsons and my hand made bed had been converted into a dump truck like those mini trucks of a few years ago. Needless to say I didn't want it anymore.

It's his to do as he pleases, but it did break my heart.
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Here is my cure for a broken heart.

 

Didn't have to.

In '85 I sold my '65 Mustang because my A was almost ready for the road. The mustang was nice, about 6 months since being completely re-done. The buyer was celebrating having just regained his drivers license after a suspension.
A month later I'm at the insurance yard to bid on some salvage... You got it. There was my old mustang all folded up and written off.

mike

 

I'm sure Just Steve cringed when he saw the photo with salt all over Big Olds. Steve had spent YEARS doing all the metal work on the car.

I know for a fact I don't keep him up like I should PLUS I've been known to "abuse" him every now and then. But in my defense, I paid MY hard earned money for him so it really shouldn't matter what I do, right?

See you tomorrow nite at RocketJ2's?? (FYI: I'll be cruzn Sears and Telegraph tonight)

 

This thread makes me think of poor ol'Rocky and the Rocky 33.....Shiny

 

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

 

Cword,

similar only kinda,

had a sweet, clean little grandma's '50 stude, a real cream puff

it wasn't even for sale and a guy offers good money so I sold it

imediately he has it painted a horrible teal color and a month later rolls it down a ravine.

he came out ok but the car was totaled.

I was ok too, I still had the money

Paul

 

Ouch, this story hurts... a dump truck? Really? Arrrrggg!!!
Sam.

 

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This thread makes me think of poor ol'Rocky and the Rocky 33.....Shiny

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why do you say that?

 

A couple years ago I sold a 20-year chopped '55 Nomad project to an out of town pal. The gl*** was almost ready to fit to the car. Everytime I ran into him he reported good progress and then I ran into a mutual friend who reluctantly told me that the buyer had bought another Nomad parts car and unchopped my old one. Pissed? Nah, he spent his money, it's his car. Disappointed? Yeah, a little, but I had run out of enthusiam for the project, so I sure didn't have anything to gripe about. Besides it funded a goodly share of my '32 roadster parts pile.

Charlie

 

I wanted to punch JimC but he's too short......

 

What makes you say that Shiny? I BOUGHT Rockys truck and actually fixed some of the little details. The guy that owns it now actually put floorboards in it but left it the same as when Rocky and I owned it.

 

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Ouch, this story hurts... a dump truck? Really? Arrrrggg!!!
Sam.

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Well, when the bed and fenders lift up from the front with big hydraulic rams so that you can see the huge tires, all I can think of is a dump truck. yeah really.

 

My first car was a 1971 Ford Torino. I sold it three years ago after driving and fixing it up for four years. It went to a guy who lives about 2 hours away, I saw it a few weeks ago and it looks exactly the same except for the roadrash and he's put 15K miles on it! More power to him!

 

I have heard guys try and tell their potential buyers what they will be allowed to do with "their" car......I always figure, You can tell what to do with the car if I can tell you how to spend the money.

 

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What makes you say that Shiny? I BOUGHT Rockys truck and actually fixed some of the little details. The guy that owns it now actually put floorboards in it but left it the same as when Rocky and I owned it.

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I know why Shiny mentioned Rocky's truck. Hehe, makes me laugh.

He's just trying to bait Rocky into POSTING ANOTHER PICTURE OF THE TRUCK.

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

In 1998 I sold the 1986 Mercury Sable* that I used in college to a kid who wrecked it a month later. I saw it abandoned at a local autobody shop. Not that it was a stylish car, but it was in immaculate condition when I sold it.

*sold it buy The Clubbed Wagoon

 

Wait a sec...you guys have sold your cars? I still have every car I've ever bought. 'Course I've only bought 5 cars, so that's not saying much...

-Jeff

 

I feel that way about Rogue's RPU...

 

i just like to punch dumb***boys,,,,
that and kick em in the balls,,,,

but ONLY the dumb ones,,,

kisses,,,

miss ho

 

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

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AMEN!

 

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<font color="red"> I love when folk rant about what somebody did to their OLD car....if ya loved it so muchwhy did ya sell it....if ya sold it why are you *****ing?

Just my 2 cents
R E D M E A T </font>

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Yes I'm afraid that I have been sick to see a few cars that I've sold, yeah I was happy to see them go away but only because I couldn't afford to keep them all! A few years back I sold a 30 Ford coupe hotrod that was a survivor from 1964, I found it untouched in a garage after a 30 year sleep it had Fenton Hawk mags, diamond tuck with the plastic still on the seats, decent paint and lots of chrome along with a hopped up A engine. I rounded up a "model C " engine put a high compression head on it with a Stromberg 2 barrel carb with a split exhaust header. Well after a couple years of driving I got the itch to get some wind in my hair so I sold it. The guy that bought it took it home (his first project) and gutted it he put in a junk yard Mustang front end along with a 76 Corvette rear end with a GM V-6 all this in a stock frame. No boxing anywhere, yeah it was his and I didn't say a thing to him but... it kind of feels like somebody violated your sister.