DJ Red Barron
Door-To-Door Pipelayer
- Joined
- May 10, 2003
I don't think anyone here has reading comprehension issues. Yes, the OP should have gone to look at the car if he wanted a complete guarantee that it was 100% as described. Even the OP has admitted to such, several times. That's not the ONLY issue here. All of that said, go look at the ad again. Does that engine compartment look as though it's ever been modded with anything major? Hell, even simple things such as a MAF pipe or up pipe change isn't even on the car. I would think most people who looked over that car would figure it to have never had a bottle put on it. Yes, while these are performance cars that were modified a lot, many people bought them, left them bone stock and drove them. This car LOOKS to be the latter of the two. With that in mind, a big point to this thread is that the seller misrepresented a car and did so knowingly by all indications. THAT is an entirely separate issue and one day, a car will get sold to the wrong person and this problem will take care of itself one way or another.the holes in the trunk were not rust holes but hole from a NOS bottle. along with a drilled out throttle bracket. NOS was very popular in 86/87 . Ya I had it along with a lot of other friends. This is a 24 year old PERFORMANCE USED car !! Around here its an "as is" sale.
....Getting a lawyer involved is a joke BUT I am sure he will take your $$$ to go after him cause this isn't right!complete waste of time.
.... Bottom line all this wouldn't be here if he went out to see it in person (yes he already said this to BUT I want to make sure others read this again an get the point).
ok next problem...
Oh some of us younger guys HAVE been to the school of hard knocks. And to be perfectly honest, had this car been sold to perhaps a less cool headed person, the seller might have well been introduced to a different type of school of "hard knocks".My "why bother getting a lawyer" was not intended for the original poster
A secondary discussion began talking about a lawyer knowing full well that the OP really had no intention of doing this. Personally, I was pushing this part of the discussion so the seller would read this (as I'm sure he is doing) and realize SOME people out there might take his @$$ to the cleaners rather than just grin and bare it. Let's say, for instance, instead of simply making a road trip to KC for some "friendly discussion and persuasion", I'm more the type to retain counsel and wreak havoc in someone's financial world if the need were to arise. When it's all said and done, I might not see the monetary difference in my pocket. But I would make double damn sure this seller was out a large chunk of change and then some in legal fees. Yea, at the end of the day I might have spent a good bit of money with no real return. Except for me, the return would be in principal... Knowing that the seller will likely think twice before purposely misrepresenting something in the future, especially when he is at risk of having to spend the profit from several cars to defend his actions.
There are a couple of ways to get through to certain types of people in this world. One is a more "physical" approach. The other is beating their prized bank account into submission. And both are rather effective methods of getting one's attention.
