So they ask, what will it take to buy your car ?

Man i hope you mean 1:18, or you got the worlds largest car...

 

Best reply yet.
Will never sell my 1947 Dodge 5W because my great grandpa bought it brand new.......hope to pass it down to my great grandson.
Any other car I've owned.......not so sentimental

 

That's what I was thinking. That thing would be HUGE.

 

.... errr, yeah, ... now back to figuring my taxes!

 

Reminds me of this:

Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?
Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill… Well, I suppose… we would have to discuss terms, of course…
Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds?
Socialite: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!
Churchill: Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.

Trust me, everyone has a price.
Maybe you'd sell them for 10,000 each, or 100,000 each or million each. Eventually a number will get you to sell them. Realistic or not, you do have a price.

 

No, I don't.

 

I tell them it's not for sale, they dont eat much, so I think I will keep em.

 

I guess I dont understand the concept, I will sell any of mine for what I think is a good price for me, and just buy or build another. I sometimes miss them when they are gone but I usually get over it pretty quickly.

 

One hundred thousand dollars. cash.

 

easy to say no when it is hypothetical.....

let me load this up in my dump truck and pm me your address.

 

That kind of money needs to be cash only for me.

I think I have a couple of cars now that are no where near being drivable that I would really like to hold on to and it would probably take large amounts of cash to move them like in way more than they are worth. But that is right this minute, tomorrow I may be in a pinch and need to sell.

On a finished car it all has to do with my mood as a rule. Do I feel like starting over from the beginning right now or am I bored with the car. On an unfinished unless I just really need money it is more often than not a matter of trading me something that I think I need more than the one I have.

 

Nobody ever asks me? Guess I'm the only one who wants my junk!

 

For some, money talks, I'm still sick fifteen years after I sold my favourite car, will never do that again, I have a really nice 36 ford pickup that I built myself, meaning that if I could make it, it got made. I bought very little for the build, been on the road thirteen trouble free years, lotsa miles, and my daughter knows that she'll get it when I can't drive it anymore. By the way, I WAS offered 50k for it, thought about it, looked at the business card hard, swallowed and tore it up. Never regretted it at all, now, there isn't enough money, its mine and always will be.

 

Bingo, We have winner.
Lowsquire understands the concept, of the question.


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You can call B.S all you want. The coupe aint for sale. At any price. Now, if you want the F1, I'll take the $50K.

 

at burger king in Pensacola FL i brought my truck for show and tell (ya no swapin lies)
guy walks over said how much. i said not for sale
i have had it on the road since 71 then made it legal in 74
drove it till 97 blue the clutch and put it on stands then it was the bottom of the pile till 2002
had it running a year when approached me. every one has a price
i said OK my 56 nomad was sold 20 years ago it was found on E Bay i lost the bid to a trade
you get me the nomad back and the truck is yours
he said get real
truck aint much but it gets lots of attension while traveling. many pictures are taken
thats it up there in the corner

 

I love threads like this.My 1957 Pontiac Safari was purchased years ago for very cheap money.I bought it with the idea of doing it up for my wife(she decided she didn't want it)and because I had done some paint work on it in 1963 that was still on there.It is still sitting in my shop half torn apart and hopefully will be completed some day.I have been offered VERY stupid money for it and have declined.Not that I couldn't use the money but for the fact that I HATE people who think they can buy anything they want if they offer enough money. I had a guy try to buy a stripe job in a hurry once(I told him I couldn't get to it for several weeks because I was booked up).A simple job that would have taken me maybe 20 minutes and cost normally about $40. He offered me $500 to do it that day(I was at my day job).I told him to take a hike and not come back. Everyone in the shop heard it and thought I was an asshole for not taking his money.Maybe so but as I said then:I ain't a whore;I'm an artist.

One story I remember reading in Road & Track many years ago when the Ferrari priices were going stratospheric. There was a big Ferrari meet at one of the California tracks(Riverside I think)and all the owners were there with their air conditioned trailers and spectacular restorations.
There were also two college professors who happened to collect vintage Ferraris and had an extremely rare 250F right hand drive(one of two built)and had supposedly been offered $4.5 million for it and turned it down.They also had it out on the track thrashing the hell out of it(because they could)and even let the writer of the article take the car around for a few laps.
When asked wweren't they afraid it would get wrecked they replied that if it did they would fix it.When asked why they hadn't sold it,they said that if they had they would just go out and buy more(they owned 16 of them at the time).
So I guess those were two people anyway who didn't care a whole lot about the money.

 

I was offered stupid money just after I finished (?) my '32 pickup and turned it down,,,sometimes I wonder which one of us was the stupidest.

Him for making the offer or me not taking it.HRP

 

Trust me........you have a price,I don't, I have priceless memories of my great grampa driving me to school in this car..........they can sell it when I get oldtimers.....

 

I still have footprints in my own ass ,where I'm still kicking it for selling my '67 Chevy II wagon. 283,PG,Factory PS,PB,& A/C car..No rust,killer body... Guy comes to my shop and asks about the wagon..told him "Not for sale"...he kept on & on & on...kinda pissed me off...He then says..."Well, IF it were for sale,how much would you ask for it??" Like a big ol' bass fish ,I just swallowed that hook and gave him a price that would make most people sieze up.. He went out to his truck, came back in and sat the damndest bag of cash on the workbench and said..."you wanna count it??" needless to say ..down the driveway went my Chevy II...and I have regretted it ever since....I thought I had all the money in the world...That was over 9 years ago, and for what I sold it for ,you can't buy a rusted out hulk ..even if you can find one...
So ,I learned ..DO NOT Give A Price,unless you are prepared to let it go for that..

 

Exactly what happend to my dad's best friend. He had a '63 split window vette for oh, 25 years or so. Nice car, collected dust in his garage for most of that time.

People always used to bug him to sell it as it was just sitting. He had a habit of naming some crazy number. They'd all laugh and that was that. Until he did it to the wrong guy.

Dude showed-up the next day with the cash in a big brown bag. Man of his word, he sold the car and now just says "not for sale" when someone asks.

 

I'm with safariknut ,people who think they can buy anything piss me off , therefore , regardless of what they offer, I 'm not gonna sell [principle's are expensive sometimes]
dave

 

Mine's appraised for $70,000
Mine's insured for $70,000
My wife wants a red '57 T-Bird. So either gimme $70,000 CA$H or a partial deal with the right T-Bird.
Simple!

 

I saw it happen once. I friend of mine had a VW camper van. This was around 1991. It was pretty nice but still $2500 tops at the time.

A guy asked him what he would take for it. He said $4000. The guy told him he was crazy and left. About a half hour later he show up with 40 $100 bills.

 

I said the 52 would never be sold but with cash in hand and another to buy what do you do.

 

i was filling my avitar at a local gas station when this guy jumps out of his business truck and says i want it. i said it would be mighty expensive. he decided he could live without it.

 

Okay, Not for sale at any price...ever....I get that from you guys with your great grandpa's car, but for me, even though my dream car is a 1955 chevy hardtop, I wouldn't have a problem in the world taking a stupid amount of money for it. When people insist on a price, I give them one. A very high one.....if someone took me up on it, I guarantee inside of the next 10 minutes I'd be shopping for another, much nicer one.

 

Told you that you had a price.
Maybe it takes 20 million to get the coupe, but there is a price.

 

Theres a price, probably many hundreds or even thousands of times what the car us worth.

 

Nobody has tried to buy my car but plenty have asked what it's worth. I suppose I've got a rough idea what it's worth in the current market. I think it's somewhere around twice what I have in it, not including my labour.

I think to even get a bite out of me the offer would have to be around twice that figure.

Too much of me in that car to let it go.

Pete