davey-dimples
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@56oval ... What age are you? Because that sounds proper old school!
And to think we complain now if the car doesn't turn the first twist of the key to take us 5mins down the road to work.
Old enough to know better than i did back then!!!!
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I must get my old films from that trip developed. We loaded the flatbed with tonnes of sets of porsche fuch's and a set of original magnesium BRM's for some cool pics. I used to import vw buses from italy and portugal as i had a mate who would find them and ring me with the details. The ambulance we dragged out of a barn in Portugal was a comedy roadtrip.
I did write a bit of it up years ago, ive been lucky to have done a lot of stupid stuff in my time. Like riding a classic original low mileage monkeybike round Spa Francorchamps.You need your own section or thread at least by the sounds of it lol
Sold a Fabia SDi to a real eccentric fella, who went on at great length about making his own biodiesel. I remember showing him the warning on the inside of the fuel flap saying biodiesel shouldn't be used, he said it was OK, as his wifes Skoda went OK on it, so I left it at that.
6 months later I got a few nasty e-mails stating that I only sold it because I knew the fuel pump was on its way out......
Bahahahahhaa ... screenshots please
Never kept them, funny thing was I had it advertised with just my phone number, so couldn't work out how he got my (work) e-mail address!
Years ago I was selling my mazda 323f. Nice we car, just needed a diesel sadly.
Young lad comes out to view, likes it, rings insurance company and they say no. Off he heads home.
Same fella rings later and says his mum is coming out and if she likes it she's gonna insure it for him (standard for us all at 17 odd).
So boy gets out talks to me and then his mum gets out of the car.......
Oh dear.
I'd bucked her a few weeks before hand having met her in Bar7, gotten drunk and figured why not. To be fair she was a very sexy 40 year old woman (kinda had that American newsreader look about her, fake tits and all) and I Smashed her fanny in all night.
So it couldn't be more awkward for her, so I said take your mum for a test drive and see if she likes how it rides and handles. At which point she says the line that sticks with me to this day.
"If it was anything like you I'm buying the car right now"
Lol. Son looked so confused and by time they had gotten back she must have told him because he turned into the biggest tool to me.
Told his ma to call me sometime, she waved getting into his car and he sped off spinning the wheels the entire length of the road in a diesel Peugeot 106 5 door.
Lmao. Sure. These things happen.
When I was breaking the old 182 a guy had come out to lift the engine and the throttle bodies, had them all ready to collect and sitting in the garage for him. Cracked open the door and he proceeded to point things out in the garage he wanted to buy, felt like supermarket sweep. He picked up all sorts of random parts, tools and a second engine and I totalled it up in my head and out came the notes.. Suited me fine!
Selling the Z the first time the guy who bought it was a body builder, got out and was MASSIVE, then his mate gets out of the car from presumably the back seat. He made the other guy look tiny and when a massive wad of 10s adding up to 12k were taken out for me to count I swiftly texted @Boydie to pop round incase my arse was turned into a yawning hippo. Lads ended up being dead on, but I didn't fancy that one all on my todd.
Clio 197 was easily the best sale, chatted to the guy over the phone. Picked him up for the airport, drove to my house while his Aston Martin mechanic went over the car and talked to me about the work done/spec. 10mins later money in my account and off they went to the ferry
Now the bmw on the other hand would put me off selling cars, 2 boys from birmingham on at me for ages about the car and no time ever suited them to get over. Finally a Friday came round where I was meant to be heading down south for a wedding but I stayed around and picked them up from a flight which was 4 hours late. They went over the car with everything bar an X-ray machine to make sure it was ok, pointing out every flaw in the car. Everything I'd already mentioned over the phone and in photos anyway. Went through every receipt and invoice in my kitchen when his mate decides to roll himself a fat one and get loose, now wants to talk about how much I earn and how much my house is worth. Tells me i'll take an offer 3k less than I was asking and after laughing in their face I say it's time to call them a taxi i've to get on the road to Dublin. Their reply was no... we aren't leaving. Couldn't get them out of the house for love nor money and now I was starting to lose the rag with them. @ChrisL was text to get round asap and we hear him coming round the corner in the jag like Ken block is filming a new gymkhana video outside. A few minutes later and a couple of phonecalls turns out he decided to take it, payment via 2 different bank transfers and some cash. Couldn't have been a more awkward sale