Today I'm the same age my grandfather was when he purchased my car

Which date do you think was the date of sale

  • December 7, 1966

    Votes: 8 88.9%

  • December 8, 1966

    Votes: 1 11.1%
  • Total voters
    9
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Cuda Al

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December 1966 my grandfather purchased my Barracuda new a few days before his 56th birthday.
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I have always questioned the purchased date as I have two different references for it.
First is the original owners manual showing December 8, 1966
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Next is the original Certicard showing December 7, 1966
Both of these presumably done by the sales person at the time of the sale.
So are you likely to error and put yesterdays date or tomorrows date?
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In looking through the receipts I ran across a couple that were interesting.
The first was dated August 14, 1967, eight months old and the 1967 window trim clips needed replacing/fixed.
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The second one dated December 27, 1967
This is for the rocker moulding, I had always thought they were added as part of the original purchase deal, guess it was only the Red-Line tires.
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Alan
 
I'd say he purchased it on the 7th and the expected delivery date was the 8th. Great to see such a good car that has stayed with the family.
 
Alan that's a cool story! Great lookin car, too. More pictures, please? ....and I'm terrible at guessing, but I'd say the deal was done on the 7th and finished up on the 8th. Not too uncommon.
 
Mopar-Mitch said:
I'd say he purchased it on the 7th and the expected delivery date was the 8th. Great to see such a good car that has stayed with the family.
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This was a walk-in and buy, car was only on the lot a day or two (I always understood it to be the day it was unloaded).
They could have purchased the car on one day and picked it up the next as the dealer prep may not have been done.


Alan
 
Beautiful Barracuda!

I agree with Dec. 7th as the purchase date, pearl harbor day, 25th Anniversary.
 
That is so cool you still have the car and all of the paper work with it. I'm gonna bet it was bought on the 7th. Paper work done that day but the car hadn't had the "road ready" performed on it yet. So they performed the PDI and made up the warranty card the day he picked it up on the 8th. Nice car :)
 
61 miles on it at purchase, so it had time for dealer prep & a road test or three before it sold.
 
Good history there, wish we all had detailed history on our cars. It is good when talking to others when you're asked questions and can spill good info about our rides.
 
Hellrats said:
That is so cool you still have the car and all of the paper work with it. I'm gonna bet it was bought on the 7th. Paper work done that day but the car hadn't had the "road ready" performed on it yet. So they performed the PDI and made up the warranty card the day he picked it up on the 8th. Nice car :)
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I have a bunch of miscellaneous receipts, those are the only two I have from that dealer (where they got the car), none of the original purchase stuff.


Alan
 
Alaskan_TA said:
61 miles on it at purchase, so it had time for dealer prep & a road test or three before it sold.
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Not sure where you see 61 miles, doubt it had 3 miles on it (whatever it took to ship a car, load, unload, etc.)

Hellrats said:
Demo rides
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I don't think the car was on the lot more than hours, not days. My grandfather didn't even take it for a spin first.

Murray said:
I hope that I will see you at the Mopar show on June 9th, love the history. Murray.
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Yes I will be there with this car and not the CHP car.


Alan
 
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