CAR HUNT! or BOF & me car shopping!

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Hey FABO!

CAR HUNT! FABOZENE:cool:
usually is all about the hunt of A Bodies and other finds of any kind Auto.
It is
CAR HUNT! FABOZENE:cool:
"A Web Based Auto Pickers Magazine"

So on that clear directive I thought I would share the flip side of the auto deal.......THE SALE.:cheers:

Now there are a few members on FABO who know my wife (ABodyBetty) and myself as hard working honest people.
Her= A sweet honest gentle person who has no vises (except me), who never says any cuss words or bad thought of any kind.
Me= An honest straight foward, No Bullshit (well bad BS anyway, but plenty of good BS!) always willing to help and honest to the point of suppling a "Whats wrong with this car list" to potential buyers of our cars.

I was raised in the "etiquette of the horse trade" (autos too) by my grand pa who was as old school as you can get. My dad never had time to mess with cars or teach mechanical stuff to me. It was all my pop (Grand Pa). He would flip cars, boats, lawnmowers, livestock, or anything else he could skin off and make a $.
A true skinner who lived by all the unwritten rules of the deal no matter what was being traded.
Not many people live by these rules anymore.
What rules you ask?
Well, you know...
#1; CASH is king. NO CHECKS OF ANY KIND
#2 Buyer beware due to being sold "As Is where is".
#3 Never negotiate (LOWBALL) over the phone before seeing the unit. It insults the seller.
and so forth, You guys know the rules I'm talking about!:bounce:

Well especially sense CL, Feebay, internet, etc these unwritten horse trading rules have all but been forgotten.
When dealing with a wholesailer of autos you would think that buyer would know better.

Anyway.......
A few FABO members here also know how ABB and I are always trying hard, working hard, and trying to maintain a good sense of humor all the while Karma works hard on slapping me down more than it picks me up.
Nothing ever comes easy for me. Not whinning, just stating facts. It is the warriors path to be tested constantly to either make you stronger or kill you.:coffee2:

Well we have been trying to sell our 74 swinger for sometime and have tried every arrow in my quiver to sell the beaked *****! LOL:D
It has been on feebay several times only to be pulled due to a$$hole stalker. CL= flagged everytime even when following rules.
On and on and on.
It was a looks too good to be true senario.
True to my karmas path even the final deal at the very last second, almost turned into a go "F" yourself and your money moment. (I have been known to send home many a buyer with all their money still in pocket just to teach them a lesson of the horse trade rules.
So with out further background copy, here is;
CAR HUNT! FABOZENE:cool:
"Chapter 3, Page 3, revisit"
OR
"Daisy Finally Sold! Good Bye, Good riddance!!"

Here's the jist:coffee2:
1.12.12, What a day!
Snow storm on the way....
Well some of you know we have been in survivor mode around here $.
So we have been trying to sell whatever car would sell first.
So after losing it so many times over not selling our 74 Swinger, need money worse than ever before, we decided to offer to Dodge dealer for display and resale. We wanted to trade dead even on a newer mopar mini van. Once we got a nice one for ABB we could sell the ferd windstar so I could make my payday out of the work I had done.
Sounded like a good plan. We even had a back up plan. A big auction co. in Indy who caters to all the auto dealers in that Indy area (No Public Auctions, must be a dealer) The manager there said he would make an exception and sell Daisy by putting in their lobby for a month to publisize her auction. After a months worth of Buzz she would be sold to the highest bidding auto dealer in Indy. Another good idea.
OK
Plan A,
We take home a 2004 Town & Country Touring with 180K miles for overnight trial. Piece of crap compaired to the windstar (sorry fellow mopar freaks but it's true) but we try to get it anyway so we at least have something else to flip fo some badly needed cash. Long story short, the next day the deal went to the point of they were to "look" at and fix on thier dime the flat tire light on on dash. When we are about to take delivery on it they call and tell me it will be $100.00 to pick up the van. They had our swinger stored inside there for a little under a week. We didn't have 100 but I told them I would call ABB and ask her sense it's her car/van. I called her at work and told her. She started crying and had to go. Now I'm tellin Ya. 30 years ago I would have went down there to see the sales man and his greedy boss sales manager, and dot their I's to the back of their brains with a broom handle for making my woman cry or any one in my family for that matter. Weuns lives bah da feud!!:cheers:
Anyway, I call back and bitched them out and told them to shove their van. We went down there at 7:30AM on 1.12.12, I walked into to service and drove Daisy out of the garage into a nasty winter storm with bias tires cussing all the way home.......
:coffee2:

Stay Tuned! Don't touch that dial!!!:blob:
CAR HUNT! FABOZENE:cool:
will return after this break.

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