Hot Rods How many of us have been taken.....Bad

project car ? pretty solid don't you think...

 

I dunno, I'm sure you could spend a lot more now.

 

gwhite, you have a very good point, but we all get burned when we dont think things through. A good look through-- before paint strip would have been a good way to discover this and return the car as it was mis advertized.

For 80 thousand there are some poeple here on the hamb that could make you the car of your dreams from a flat sheet... We all learn lessons, and in this case it was-- take a good look and think about things.

 

x 2.

 

You had $80,000 to spend ????????????? You sir, should have bought a Brookville 3Window for $25,000 if your idea of fun is a bare steel body. Bob

 

The guy didn't even want to sell his car.
You spent four hours talking a guy into accepting more money than most of us have spent on hot rods and our whole life.
There was apparently no inspection done on the car.

I get the whole love at first sight, reacting more than thinking and spending more than you should.
I've done that sort of thing and probably blown the equivalent amount of money in my little budget.

Remember, if it has tits or tires its gonna cost you money. If you jump into either one without thinking it cost you more 9 times out of 10.

Is there any chance this guy didn't actually build the car and believed it was that clean?
Could it be possible that he was bragging up his car and felt backed into a corner when a guy kept insisting on handing him ridiculous money.
if the guy actually represented it as some original yet perfect car, he was wrong.
If a buyer pays absolute top possible dollars and doesn't do any Thorough inspection then he was wrong too.
if you pay enough to buy the car that won the Roadster Show for a car that obviously didn't look perfect or you wouldn't have to torn it down, you obviously had some motivation that nobody else is going to understand.

 

Now I know what the phrase "more dollars than sense" looks like.

 

Maybe the owner actually said he would take 80,000 doll hairs for it... or 80,000 doll arms.
You thought he said "dollars"

 

I agree with GW too, I sell at swap meets and some of the cars are just things I bought with big dreams and then the reality set in and I actually get under it with flash light and tape measure. Decide if this is my one and only, or polish it up a little, fix the obvious and drive it till someone wants it more than I do. I have found that people that know what they are looking at and for, spend the time and ask questions. If you bought a shiny paint job in in retail Red, and then decided to check into it deeper, that's one thing. If you found problems with it and then "bit the bullet" and figured you would fix it right, that's a different situation, I kind'a feel you though it was minor and then you were going to blow it apart, fix the issues and repaint it and as you got into it further and further there is no stopping point, and we end up looking at your pictures. I know how you feel, I bought a nice 32 chopped sedan highboy out of Grand Prairie, Tx, knew the person that owned the car and he had had it built. SBC, 400 and Jag Lots of chrome and nice wheels. serious eye candy, but after a year and half of driving it not just letting it sit between shows the right cowl collapsed, when I stripped the plastic and paint off that area it was Swiss-cheese. It obviously had laid on its side in a creek for more than a few years, anyway at least you have patch panels, I had a sieve. The point being we all have been taken and if not, you will be. I feel sorry that it happened, and the money is just a place holder, if it was a $2500, 64 bug it would be just as bad emotionally, because you have no real recourse and it just stings. If I could, I would volunteer to help you because that is what this site is about.
That was my 2 cents worth, so much for an old guy rambling.

 

So your the sucker that bought the suit from Sears.

 

Because he can afford to. http://www.scottgillen.com/

 

Go away, I've been burnt on a deal, sucked it up and got on with life.
Family, friends, lot more in life then cars.get your priorities right before making threats.
Thommo


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I disagree with most of you. This is what the HAMB is for, you get burned, you have a bad seller, hey warn others, shit I did. People are shady no matter where you're at. The man was burned by a HAMB guy, the current owner is on the HAMB, makes it legit. So what if this guy had 80k to spare on his dream car, still doesn't deserve to get talked sh!t to by you guys. The man is upset, let him air it out. I've been burned here too brother.

 

Can,t imagine what a mess it was at the sandblasters workshop That must have been one overweight 1932 Ford.

 

OMG this is so funny! I never herd anything like it lol

 

This guy writes essays about the "vision" involved in his expensive but unremarkable house remodels.

 

Sounds like you shoved money down the guys throat untill he sold it to you. Man-up and take your lumps like anyone else should that looks at something and agrees to buy it. You looked at it for four hours, you liked it, you bought it. You have nothing to complain about. You still have a very workable car it will just take more than planed, welcome to old cars. Don’t be a cry baby. You screwed yourself

 

Besides the crap job on that door, the rest of the car looks pretty good to me..

 

i'd be more embarassed about starting this thread than owning that car.

 

^^^^what he said^^^^

 

I don't agree on the price and if nobody knew what you paid it would have ben a nice score. You talked him into selling and everybody brags about there car being pristine! It isn't so bad unless you know the price.

 

Perfect!!

 

What really pisses me off is that you started this thread insinuating that HAMBers habitually rip each other off. Some sort of "Come on gang, let's tell it how it really is." You expect us to rat each other out like it's some sort of common plague. Sure there are bad deals but there are ways to prevent it too. Even measures of recourse once the deal is done can be taken. But to start a thread implying that shady deals are rife here is a big asshole move in my book.


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Are you more pissed at yourself or at the previous owner?

Remember it took you 4hrs to persuade the owner to sell you the 3w. It wasn't for sale you talked him into it, maybe you should have spent more time looking it over.

 

I concur!

 

Welcome to hot rodding ! So, the guy didn't try to sell you the car but instead it took you 4 hours to get it away from him and now you are blaming him ???? Time to put your big boy pants on and accept the fact that you screwed up by laying out money for a car you didn't have checked out by someone with more knowledge than you.

You could probably buy most of the cars we HAMBers own and would find things that are far from perfect. When you are dealing with 80 year old sheet metal and parts from a dozen different cars, that is what you sometimes get. Maybe the previous owner didn't even know what was under the paint.

Stop whining and put the car together the way you want it. Evidently you wanted to make changes or you wouldn't have torn it completely apart.

Don

 

And I thought I got burned on that Vette 25 years ago. I/m older and hopefully much wiser now. Due diligence , my man, due diligence.

I wish I could have some sympathy for you, but for $80k, I would have done a lot more inspection and a lot less time begging the guy to sell it to me.

 

Absolutely, jealousy of someone is able/willing to spend big bucks on something is so transparent. The guy got fucked! Just like having to guard everything you own with dogs, chains cameras, and firearms and if ya don't and it's stolen, it's your fault, not the fucking thief's??

 

I wouldn't have spent $80K in the first place, but really.....I guess I'm operating on a different than most. Remove a door panel? If I were selling an $80K car and some jamoke showed up wanting a door panel removed I would thank him for his time and wait for the next buyer. Do people really get to disassemble cars before they buy them? Even a door panel removal on a nice car can be a big deal.

 

I think you jumped the gun a little to quick, wanting A 32 ford. I bought one alot worse and knew it,.... and top builders laughed under there breath when they saw it in the raw,,but......this was a+ for me. I tore the body apart bought all the pieces needed, roof sections boht doors a body chopped out of square [no previous bracing,over a period of time. In the end i learned this~ if you can't build one, and you turn around and pay way to much for one finished. You lose two ways.
ps My fist one was was steel 3-window also junk, I finally came up with stored in "barn find".Everything turned out for the good.Hang in there ,,if you paid that much for the kar....you must have enough $$$$ left to repair it. I became a bodyman and A good one after that,I just chalked it up to I paid for my own education. good luck you'll get past it bob s
I was patient about my first venture with a 3-window, The second one you see in my avatar ,i am the second owner. it had A weak sub rail and that was it.

ps i really don't understand the 4 hour part?+ to give "ANYONE" that kind of money for A street rod.