...walks into my shop the other day and asks me if thats my Fairlane in the parking lot. Not seeing any other Fairlanes, I acknowledge with a yes as I pull my head out from behind the CAT motor I'm putting a new turbo on. He proceeds to tell me that he also owns a Fairlane and is need of the drivers side door trim. He asks if he can buy it off of mine. I say to him, "I don't have any extra, but hey do you have an extra drivers side door?" He answers with a shake of the head in the direction of "no," so I retort with, "Well how would you like it if I came into your place of business and asked to buy the door off your car?" He spins on his heels and leaves me back to the turbo as my co-workers errupt in laughter. The nerve... I don't get it. Politically correct edit: Based on the overwhelming number of responses with bugs bunny type diction, and seeing as my original ***le has been edited (thanks, sorry), I have ammended the ***le.
Better keep an eye on your trim...... the maroon might sneek back & try to steal it. By the way...I need a horn trim ring...yours any good???
We had the 57 in the driveway shortly after we got and some guy came by asking about finding some back gl*** stainless trim. We told him a couple possible sources, talled a bit and he left. Next morning I noticed one of the mouldings was pulled loose, pushed it back into position and went to work. When I got up the next morning both sides were pulled out from the rubber. I pulled all three of them off that night. The car was never disturbed again. I'm glad I didn't catch the guy in the act. I still one kid to raise.
Its ****ed. Everywhere I lived when I had my 38 I would have knobs knock on the door and ask if it was for sale! Never had a sign, never sold another car there, people just ***umed it was for sale. ****heads.
I had a guy do that to me when I had my Ghia. Ran in the boat shop and asked who owned the red Ghia out front...I thought someone hit it. However, the guy was from Cali and used to have one like it. I couldn't believe how estatic these people were about the little Ghia. But, I can't believe that idiot wanted to buy your trim. What a douch bag!
Wow, that dudes real kooky....nice reply though, hahaha I had a 68 Charger some dude was flipping out over, he told me he "really liked my Chevy".....
It's the Bugs Bunny pronunciation of "*****"! C'mon, didn't you waste your youth watching cartoons like the rest of us?
Yeah, a Maroon was bad enough, but every once in a while, Bugs would run up against an "Ultra Maroon"---
think this is bad? try owning a shop with mul***udes of old tin outside. at least once a day, I get the "how much for" question. and Curt has discovered that he has a real nice El Camino (it's a Ranchero), and I am frequently asked if my Oldsmobile has a Hemi in it. I have been informed that anything built before 1989 is "old school" and apparently, a 73 Delta 88 is very sought after. VERY. (who knew?) most recent fits of laughter were caused by a fella that wanted us to work on his "hot rod", as it had some front end damage. I walked right past a wrecked 85 Mercury Grand Marquis looking for a hot rod. the worst part is...he wasn't kidding. according to him, it was really fast. I somehow doubt his 6 cylinder was that quick. some peoples kids...
Yeah, keep an eye on your trim, years ago some guy walked into my shop wanting to know if I'd sell the wiring harness off of my 63 Impala SS. The car wasn't that old at the time, just parked out back waiting for a new engine. I ran him off, sure enough the next morning when I got to work the hood and door was open on the Impala, guess what was gone. One other time a guy was looking for a 53 Merc "Mercamatic" emblem. Showed him one on a parts car, had some pitting on it, so I told him 3 bucks. Said no, too much, but he'd give me 3 bucks for the cherry one on the hardtop I'm building. I told him that one wasn't for sale, and if it was it would be a lot more then 3 bucks. A couple days later ALL the emblems on both cars are gone, the jerk didn't even leave me the bad ones.
My boss and his wife ran salvage yards for 30 years- they learned quickly -- if somebody came in asking about a part-- and they confirmed they had the part-- and the guy didn't buy it-- they had to pull the part and lock it up, or it would "disappear"
A Ultra Maroon! Pub is smiling ear to ear hearing that! Bugs was one funny *** rabbit. However, I feel Foghorn Leghorn was the man, or bad *** chicken.
A guy at a car show tried to bargain with me for the tailgate off my F-100. He offered a stepside tailgate in trade and wouldn't believe me that they aren't the same size. When people offer to buy the whole truck, I take pleasure in telling 'em it's not for sale. That is, of course, unless they're knocking on my door or otherwise interrupting me.
ifn the trim in question was something you had dupes of... i would have said sure its for sale .. get the money from him put in your pocket and proceed to bend the **** outa the trim during removal and hand it over ... okay have a nice day but ya gotta give some credit for asking maybe just maybe when asking the ol jalopy in the backyard might be a deuce or the hemi caryou saw was crushed last week..
I am of the opinion that everything is always for sale. Whenever someone asks me if somehtings for sale and I don't really want to sell it, I give them some astrnomical price. If they are dumb enough to pay it, I'm in the green, if not, I'm where I wanna be. But not in this case, buy the whole car, then you can have the trim.
this is something i fear most. Coming outside in the morning to see that some ******* has pried a piece of my trim off with a screwdriver. luckily, there aren't many of my car around so i haven't had such an encounter as the original poster.
You got it. I've sold many items that way. If its to the price that I would be stupid to walk away and they would be too stupid to buy it - I'll sell it.
I rolled my 69 camaro out of the garage while I was moving, its a solid car sitting on space saver spares, complete with old paint, no rust, driver quality interior, no engine, built th350, and 9 inch rear. I had 5 people stop that day and ask if it was for sale, 6 the next day. I wrote on the windshield with white shoe polish, "not for sale, do not inquire" then some jack *** knocks on my door to ask about the car. I tell him its not for sale, so he offers me $3000. I tell him to go get ****ed. the next day the car is back in the garage and he stops by again with a stack of ebay print out to prove to me that my car is worth $3500 top dollar and he will give me that for it now, he even had a trailer on the back of his truck. I told him if he came back to my house I was going to shoot him for tresp***ing, and oh yeah **** off. that afternoon I posted a no tresp***ing sign in the driveway, I was really going to shoot him if he showed up.
Same here. I've been followed home a couple times with someone wanting to know if my car is for sale. I tell them that it isn't but that they can have it for $****.**. So far that has ended the conversation and I've been able to go on my way.
I always act nice in these situation try to lead them to anothe source for there parts /car they are looking for then walk them back to the vehicle they came in and see them off while making note of their make model tag number and personal description . got me back some "mssing" parts once cuz there's usually lots of fingerprints left behind Mark
Look who I caught trying to nab my truck one night,I say,Isay boy I keep pitchin em, you keep missin em. Later Robhttp://
I guess ignorance is universal...........My Plymouth wagon was sitting in it's usual spot at the end of a three space carport. A gold chainer pulls up in his Cadillac and asks if it's for sale. I said no it's not. He replies that he really wants the car and is going to buy it before he leaves my driveway. I politely told him again the car was not for sale, but that I appreciated his admiration of it and to get the **** out of my yard. He says hey, I 've got a big pocket full of money and you look like you could use some money. I told him I had a big .44 caliber pistol in my pocket and he looked like he could use a flesh wound. He left at this point vowing to return. Well, I chained the car to the pole it sits next to, put it up on stands and pulled the wheels. It wasn't running anyway, and why take a chance on having to shoot some Maroon, even if he really needed it.
Ok then can I just buy the windshield, or maybe a little corner of the roof? I think the elevator musta got stuck. Listen bro some of us are just **** magnets and we live in a world of ****.
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