good looking Camaro, without an engine... and it seems to me that this moron decided it was never going to move under it's own power, and no one was every going to pay him a fair amount for a project car... so he took a sawzall to it.
Stupider things have happened.
If you look inside, you can see the interior was garbage, there's no back seat, and I bet it's simply a case of resale paintjob. He probably screwed up the gears too, and no one wanted anything to do with what little was left to work with
Thanks Marc for the story link!
Way back in the distant past I lived up in Northern NY and there were a lot of people like this. One fellow in particular who ran a sawmill where I often went for stuff. He had various things technically for sale - old tractors and doodlebugs and whatnot. But when asked what he wanted for them he'd always say "I have $x in it and I gotta get $x out of it." And that was that. He paid $200 for that tractor 25 years ago, and that's the price, though it's now seized up and missing a rear wheel and hasn't been started since 1960.
ReplyDeleteNot long after, in Massachusetts, I ran across another such - in this case in the paper, a local garage that had a school bus for sale. Nobody bought it at their price, so they dug a big hole and buried it.
People really are that stubborn.
thank you for the stories! Imagine working long enough to bury a school bus! That's mule headed!
DeleteInstead of cutting it up you can just let it grow moss and rust back into the earth.
ReplyDeleteThere's the answer to your question a couple days ago.
HA! Lol, good theory on how that Austin became a mossy mound!
DeleteNo mention in either article of his asking price , poor excuse for journalism .
ReplyDeleteHe probably never told ANY one exactly how much he had his mind set on. Most times I've tried buying something, or selling something, the other person instantly starts that damn game of avoiding and evading the amount the thing will move for... one car I bought in 1994 was being sold by a guy that didn't want his wife to know how much beer money he was going to have, so though I paid two thousand, he wrote a receipt for one hundred. I got the benefit when it came to registration fee, so I didn't mind at all.
DeleteSo many people are just afraid of being taken afraid of, and losing a couple dollars, that they won't actually get a sale because of the dickering game
every episode of American Pickers was a good example of people afraid to say how much they'd sell stuff for. The Camaro seller was probably also simply wanting too damn much, for a freshly painted roller
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