sellers remorse????before selling???
Not thinking of that car at all, although another mem seems to have gone thru the same as others in an attempt to but the car that has "always been for sale".
I was thinking of a hemi cuda from years ago that was for sale, I tried to buy it, seller decided not to sell (I respect that) and when it came back up, I didn't have the $$, lol. If only I had used my kids school tuition money,,,,,,,
Ok, now you reminded me of a story....
Back in the 80's we bought a 426 Hemi from a guy called Tom. He was a big Hemi fan and had 4 "loose" Hemis and two original Hemi cars. His brother and his "cruiser" was a 69 440 Charger R/T. He had an original 70 Hemi Challenger 4 speed car with 13 k on it, and a 70 Coronet with 9 k on it.
We bought one of the loose Hemis for a future project...
Meanwhile, I find a set of Max Wedge heads that I was trying to convince dad to get for the Superbird, but he wouldn't have any of it. Luckily my friend Jim wanted them for his 70 Roadrunner, but didn't have the money, so I paid for them and he was going to pay me back...
Well after a while, Jim goes to Car Craft Nationals and meets with Gary Dyer from Dyer's Blowers and decides that he wants to go with a blower. However they don't make a blower for the Max Wedge heads, so he no longer needed them.
So we go to a local car show sponsored by Mopar Muscle and see Tom there with his 70 Hemi Challenger with 13,000 original miles and he says that he's going to sell it and is taking offers...
Meanwhile Jim is going around trying to sell the Max Wedge heads. I tell him, "they are mine, and not for sale." I had paid for them, and he didn't even make one payment to me, so they are mine.
He wants to sell them and "split the profit"...
I say, "How can you 'split the profit', when you didn't lay down any capitol for them? I paid for them, now they are mine. If anyone gets the profit, it's the guy who laid out the capitol."
So now Tom wants the Max heads, and we want his Challenger, we have a good bargaining chip.
My brother and I look the Challenger over from top to bottom while dad keeps him distracted talking to him. The car was immaculate....
A few guys had given him an offer by then. So I tell dad to take the highest offer, subtract $500 and offer that to him with the Max heads...
Tom refused to tell dad what his best offer was. (He wanted someone to offer way more than it was worth.) So dad said, F*ck him, I'm not going to play games, and didn't even give him an offer...
It turns out that he did not really want to sell the car, just wanted the "attention" and see what he could get...
So I kept my Max heads....
The only way that I would let them go was to get a Hemi Challenger for them, and I still have my heads today....
I wonder if Tom still has his Hemi cars....
