Signs on car windshields indicating "not for sale"

Just goes to show theres a lot of enthauists out there that want to keep them n do em in there own time......never seen a sign saying "not for sale " etc

 

so what is the right way to go about it?

i've had my eye on an early 50s burban for over a year. i got some info from a friend of mine, he said they guy was a wierdo. i've seen him outside maybe twice. the burban sits in his mom's backyard peeking under a tarp, it can barely be seen from the street.

i p*** by at least 3 times a week. any tips?

 

the day after I got my '53 some guy came into the yard and asked my ucle (farmyard, 2 houses) if it was for sale. He said he didnt think so, as it was just brought home the night before. The guy got into his truck, got halfway out of the yard, saw my '57 and backed up to my uncle again "is that one?!?" "NO!"

haha

the '57 is hidden from view, but I park the '53 out of sight from the highway.

 

everything i got is for sale for the right price! any takers?

 

For thirteen years I had to see a pristine 66 Chevelle SS with 396 emblems, Ansen slots, arrow straight body, nice paint and interior rust away and weeds/small trees growing up between the bumpers and body, headliner sagged, paint faded due to exposure. This car was gorgeous in 1993 and in 2006 it disappeared. I stopped a few times and asked about the car and they were going to do nothing with it. It really pissed me off to find out after all those years they had the car hauled off to a junkyard.

 

When out-and-about in my 52 sedan, I frequently got asked if it was for sale. I learned to reply with a simple "maybe, but it won't be cheap!" answer. That left it pretty open-ended to see if they wanted to play ball. Didn't seem to offend anyone, but let them know where I stood.

Before that, when someone would ask how much, several times I'd say a number like "18"*

and they were like, "18 hundred? I guess these old cars are going up...",

Me: "Um, 18 THOUSAND, dude!"

(Me knowing full well the car wasn't worth near that at the time.)

 

The people I dislike the most are the people that say "let me know when you want to get rid of that I really want it" then when you do... well they don't want it then. My house is up for sale and a few months ago before it was on the market we had 2 different people say call me when you decide to sale, we did and they declined. One guy grew up in the house said he really wanted it and he knew we were getting ready to sell, no dice!

 

I have read a few posts here where people sound like they get annoyed by the thought of people asking. So if asking is not appropriate, how are WE to get the next barn find? I have only bought a couple of cars in my life that were for sale. I have only been turned down a couple of times (maybe I have been a little more realistic with value than some of the guys bothering you?) I had one guy that appreciated my offer for a junker of his, we were about bucks different in price so he offered to flip for the 50 -- I probably would have paid it, but I won.

Probably the worst experience I had though was a guy that had a 63 1/2 Galaxy in his back yard when I was looking for a project. He politely declined, because he had his own ambitions for the car. As part of my greeting I offered him my business card. Turns out he kept the card and wrote on it my interest in the car and about 6 months later, after I found my next project, his daughter called me. Her father was killed at work and going through his things she found the card and called to offer me the car before she junked it. Since I was now deep into replacing the frame on my Falcon, I helped her price it and sell it rather than junk it, she had no clue how much it was really worth and was very happy for the help -- but man did that ****, that's not the way I really want to get them.

 

i'm kinda surprised....
25K doesn't seem too unreasonable fer a decent nomad....



i've got one car that'll get cut up before i sell it but everything else can be had...
too bad nobody wants any of it...

 

got a friend that chased this 69 z28 for 10 years, finally got it bought this year so it DO pay to ask....

 

remember seeing this '59 four door bel air sittin outside a insurance place. the dude wasnt going to sell, he got so tired of people asking, he then wrote on the windshield with window marker "Not 4 Sale".
i later went over there in the middle o night just for kicks and rubbed off the "not" part.
i kinda wondered how askings he got after that. i mustve done that for about five or six times within two months.ha

 

Gee boys might be time for a chill pill. How many others have scored a car by asking when there hasnt been a For Sale sign?

I asked about a VW beetle one night sitting on the street and was given it! If I hadnt asked.......... I also bought a house by door knocking.

Nearly everything I own is for sale although none is advertised. If some wood duck wants to offer me $70K for my coupe its their's, even if they walk up to me in the street.

 

20 years ago my Buddy Ken was outside washing his chopped 51 Merc when a 6 or 7 year old kid stopped on a bike. As Ken told it the conversation went something like this:

Kid: How much for this car?

Ken: It's not for sale.

Kid: I know, but how much for it?

Ken: I told you, it's not for sale!

Kid: I KNOW, but HOW MUCH?

At this point it dawned on Ken what the kid was after.

Ken: $30,000!

Kid: HOLY ****!

And he rode off on his bike completely satisfied. Ken decided all the kid really wanted to hear was a number, a value.

I think that's what most adults want to hear when they ask the price, or ask if it's for sale. Then the adults walk away with a story to tell their friends, a story they can embellish any way they want, whether it's about the great friendship they now have with the owner, or a story about "the ***hole won't sell it", or the "***hole who thinks the car is solid gold".

 

I have the opposite.
About 15 years ago, coming out from a swap meet, there were a couple of guys hanging around my truck. Not that it was a big deal, but it was a real clean 71 Chevrolet, big block, air, the whole deal.
They told me that they had come up to buy a truck but couldn't find one at the meet, and that this one sitting in the parking area was just about as nice as they had seen.
Then got the question, "Is it for sale?"
At the time I was going through a divorce and needed some cash so I just asked them what they had on them (knowing that they had come to buy something and must of had cash with them), between them they pulled out 13k.
I pulled the plates, wrote up an 'as is - where is' bill of sale and went back into the swap looking for a ride back home with a pocket full of green.
This was good money for the truck at the time and I made out like a bandit, but I still regret it sometimes...

 

I see nothing wrong with asking and have bought and sold several cars that way. One day while driving my '58 Yeoman Chevy wagon a BMW pulls beside me at a stop light and the guy yells, "nice car". Next light he asked if he could look at it. We pulled over and he proceeds to tell me how he and his brother used to sit on the tailgate on a similar wagon delivering news paper while his dad drove the paper route. He then asked if I'd consider selling it. I said sure and gave him a rediculously high price. He pulls out $5K cash and asked me to follow him to the bank for the balance. The rest is history.

 

Maybe I'm nuts but I'm always flattered when they ask, and I've managed to sell 3 cars this way for good money..... **** , I like having the conversations. Sometimes I even learn where other good deals are hiding.