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Thread: old man would\'nt give it up
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rtrypwr
Hauling
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posted February 19, 2003 07:08 PM |
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old man would'nt give it up
a friend of mine gives me the cross streets to where he seen a white repu. i go and hunt the thing down{not very clean} find out which appt the guy lives in, ask him if he wants to sell his truck.. NO! ok {just for the hell of it} i'll give ya a grand.. NO! ok 1500 NO!! allrighty then think i'll go now. guy has to be at least 60 would'nt give it up
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nwaco
Redlining
Posts: 407
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posted February 19, 2003 07:16 PM |
 Edited By: nwaco on 19 Feb 2003 19:17 |
I had same problem.....
I place an ad locally, and had a lady call me up and give me a number for a guy who had three. I called him up and he said he had two and his Dad had another. His personal truck wasn't for sale but his other one and his Dad's were. I head on down and the old man wouldn't part with it. It had 80K, he had had it since 76, and it was in primo garaged condition. Bad news is he wouldn't sell. Good news is he is 83 years old and I am first in line. He says when he kicks, I get the truck and his kid gets the cash. I got the other one, a runner for $100.00.
Ya gotta love this stuff.....and obviously they do too....
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rotormunky
Redlining
Orlando, Florida
Posts: 424
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posted February 20, 2003 07:02 AM |
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I place an ad locally, and had a lady call me up and give me a number for a guy who had three. I called him up and he said he had two and his Dad had another. His personal truck wasn't for sale but his other one and his Dad's were. I head on down and the old man wouldn't part with it. It had 80K, he had had it since 76, and it was in primo garaged condition. Bad news is he wouldn't sell. Good news is he is 83 years old and I am first in line. He says when he kicks, I get the truck and his kid gets the cash. I got the other one, a runner for $100.00.
Ya gotta love this stuff.....and obviously they do too....
That's the best way to handle those things. Be polite first and formost, if they don't want to sell just tell them you don't blame them cause you feel the same way about them that he does. Ask him if you can leave your name and number just in case he ever changes his mind or knows someone else who wants to sell.
If you part of good terms, if/when the guy decides to sell he'll usually give you a call before anyone else.
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-Martin
Orlando, Florida
http://www.themonkeyhouse.org/REPU
'77 REPU (Some assembly required :)
'91 Cabrio (Battered and bruised, but she's still my baby.)
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rtrypwr
Hauling
Posts: 115
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posted February 20, 2003 09:24 PM |
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old man would'nt give it up
considering he would'nt even open the door,{ whole conversation was through the window} i don't think anyone will be getting that one. i'm gonna try offering him a 50.00 and see if he will swap left side corner grill with me, mine is cracked.. but i don't much faith that that will happen either. it's a 500.00 dollar truck {pretty beat}
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Klaus43
Rotorhead
Posts: 1259
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posted February 21, 2003 10:25 AM |
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Dreams die hard...
..as I'm sure we all know too well. Like the guy in my town who's had a rusting, dead-pistoned REPU sitting in his drive for years...bed full of construction scraps...years ago we'd talked about it for $100, but I had no place to put it...then, when I got the place, $100 wasn't good enough any more! I mean, it's fairly straight & all, but heavy on the rust...and totally dead...and, as I recall, the cab is a fishbowl every winter...and the hood won't pop, making it a bitch to move w./out breaking something...
And, this is no rotorhead we're talking about--no other rotaries around his place. Go figure!
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