Hey freinds, yep getting formal here. Well got into a pickle here. Told a buddy about a rod 1939 coupe rustfree ,327,1939 trans with change over, nos fenders and with some excellent extra parts to go with. Not a turn key but nice project. Well it's cheap like 3k or under and the old boy turns it around in a month. He's not on the board so I feel I can vent here. To be honest it pisses me off, because I had a few buddies that wanted the coupe and even after he bought it he wouldn't sell it to them because it was too valuable to him, or the parts were, I guess???? thanks for the ear, john
Next time you have something he wants, sell it to someone else after he makes you an offer. Do it in front of him, and sell it for less than he offered. That usually does the trick!
A guy did something similar to my brother. Knew where a nearly complete Model a truck was for $500. Good body, good frame, front axle...stuff a hot rodder would need. He sat on it for months deciding whether or not he wanted it, ducking us the whole time. By the time we got ahold of him, it was sold. Good buddy.
........sorry to hear that news John. I thought something was bugging you a little. It has happened to me a few times over the years too. I try to think about all the good deals and nice finds and try to forget the bad***** that happens once and a while. Your the best tin hunter I know.....keep your chin up....keep finding the goodies.....you'll be OK Steve
That really*****s. I haven't had that happen to me with a car but I did pull some strings to get my sister into a good teaching position (I worked with the facility's administrator's wife) only to have my sister leave the job after just two weeks. Sometimes you just feel like smakin' some folks...
i bet givin him a good****-whuppin' would amke ya feel better. I know if one of my buddies did that***** to me, especially like the model a truck mentioned, I'd have to hurt em.
I had a buddie of mine that had a kind of ratted out 32 Ford coupe. He bought a much nicer one. The first one needed alot of parts missing a door trunk and was a rough car. Some************** I would try to fix.. He said I could have it for what he had into it. So I called in some connections and they said they would give me the parts I needed if I would use them. I told him I was ready for the car. I told him innocently who my buddies were that would hook me up with the parts. He actaully went up to the guys I knew and asked them for the parts . I was pretty pissed off. I got over it. I look at it as a lesson learned.***** The*****in'*****ers!!! I'm still looking for a 32 to this day
I know John it*****s!! A good**** whippin would be nice, but the guy that did this to my friend and soon to be coyote if he keeps going down the right track, continentaljohn is a pip squeak. I know you are reading this so please confront me with this the nice time you see me at a car show because I heard it through the grape vine that me and continentaljohn made a scene and you wanted to hit me! that would of been funny. But all you hambers, continentaljohn will pull through I have a half a bottle of prozac left that I will drop off tomorrow!! p.s. Don't sell it or you are going to need more then prozac!!!!!! Love always, the coolest cat on this board, nummnuts.
That kinda thing always seems ta happen amongst certain "friends"! This one buddy of mine hardly knows which end of a screwdriver to use, yet he insists on cluttering up his place with car projects. Years ago, he had this goofy yellow Camaro that he couldn't get to run. He wanted it to move under it's own power so he could sell it, and he called me over to "help" him. ("help" with this guy = YOU do the work while he bugs you, sits in the car making engine noises, or goes in the house to bang his girlfriend.) Anyway, all this car needed was a set of points PROPERLY installed, a timing adjustment, valve lash set and the charging system wired up the RIGHT way. (No, Dave...the alternator does not charge the horn relay...it directs power to the voltage regulator!). So, I had it running in about an hour and set everything for him while he was drawing pictures on the wall with a grease pencil and putting more stickers on his toolbox. It was late, so I told him I was going home. I told him I was going to come by the next evening and take the car out for awhile. Test drive it to see if I might wanna buy it from him. He agreed to give me dibs on the car in return for getting it to run for him. Next night I show up with cash in pocket and he informs me that he's holding it for some kid his girlfriend mentioned the car to, and didn't want me to drive it since he'd taken a deposit on the car! No real loss...I mean, it was a bondo-buggy Camaro after all...and I bought something else...but the idea of the whole thing kinda pissed me off! That's just the way that guy is...I accept it...but I also don't work on his***** for free anymore! (Fortunately, he can be a good customer!)
Seems the ol' golden rule applies here: "Treat others the way you want to be treated" I think you know how to treat this "friend" in the future.....
had something similar happen to me twice,, my first 55, i was 15 lost my license and agree'd to sell it to a friend on the condition that when he decided to sell he would sell it back to me... of course he didnt...********... then was a guy that ran a tow company,, towed in an 1959 Austin Healey 100-6, nearly mint condition,, i visited him every day,, he swore to me he would sell it to me for 750 bucks as soon as the state would issue him a clear****le.... months passed with me seeing him a couple times a week at least... one day he comes by, and asks if i still want it.. or course i want it!!! oh.. too bad i sold it to a salvage company for 200 bucks!!! what a******!!! natural selection isnt effective enough,, days like those makes you feel like giving nature a hand!!! bob
This is kinda different but the same....Your sellin a motorcycle and to get it gone you make someone you know a really good deal, you guys settle on a date for him to pick it up, you don't hear from him when that date rolls around, you confront him about it, "I was bussy and couldn't get away", well thats nice but you said that day was cool. Now he still is interested and you still need the cash so you wait some more, finally you get flat pissed and trade it for something cooler. You can't trust anyone! Everybody wants to take advantage of you! -Jesse
That upsets me too. There is just too many guys out there who would give their right nut for a dream car. And then you get these guys who act like they have been waiting their who life for it and turn around and sell it for a profit. No wonder there's so many older guys who sit on their 30-40 and 50's junkyards and wont part with them.
Here is one from the flipside: buddy Joe gets a call from the local scrap yard. Joe git yer**** down here now and bring $200.00 and a truck. Joe owns a welding/fab biz so he goes down there and they send him to the yard. There sits a '54 BelAir 2 door minus, front clip, motor&tranny. He doesn't ask any Q's but hands the bucks to the guys and they hand him the****le! He opens the door and all the trim is inside and all the bolts are in labeled baggies in the trunk. Then another truck pulls in and drops off the front clip @ the front gate. Driver said little old lady wanted it out of her garage...son took it apart years ago and left it. Interior was mint (except for two small rips in headliner) once we took all the trim out. Guys at the yard confessed they ripped it when they were lookin' at the stuff. Pays to have GOOD buddies in the right places.
Ive been around a few of this type of things.One bud told me he had several cool rat rod items he had collected,that were not for sale at all, but he felt sorry for a dude building a rod --sooo he donated them---nooo charge! A few days later the same guy was bragging in front of sveral guys, how he had sold them on e-bay and how much money he had made!Needless to say the guy was fummed, But did we learn anything from this! No more parts avalible here!
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