Re: "I want to buy you Car syndrome.... share a tale..?"

["The '84 Scirocco" <scirocco@macslut.org>]

Send him to st. louis, he can have mine for $8000 cash.

Greg


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Greg Coan
'84 Scirocco

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> From: 16v Jason <jason@scirocco.org>
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:10:21 -0600
> To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Subject: Re: "I want to buy you Car syndrome.... share a tale..?"
> 
> Heh, some of you guys know this story, happened to me early last summer.
> 
> I was using an ATM in town with the Scirocco parked conveniently on the
> sidewalk next to me.  Some guy walks over as I'm walking back to the car
> and says "Hey, how much for the Scirocco?"
> 
> "It's not for sale."
> 
> "Oh come on, I'll give you $8000 cash for it."
> 
> "Sorry bud, it's not for sale"...
> 
> "$9000?"
> 
> "Nope."
> 
> "$10,000 on a certified bank check tomorrow."
> 
> "Sorry, it's not for sale..."
> 
> <getting nasty>.  "Fine, then $12,000, you'd be crazy to say no."
> 
> "Call me crazy, but I told you the car is not for sale, period."
> 
> The guy got really pissed... I just laughed at him.  "I'm offering you,
> what, 3 or 4 times what the car is worth!  You'll never get that much money
> from someone else for that old thing"...
> 
> And my now-classic response: "Dude, you could offer me one HUNDRED twelve
> thousand for the car, and it's not going to change anything, the car isn't
> going anywhere.  It is not for sale"...
> 
> And I drove away.
> 
> Let's not discuss how many open offers I have on the 190, though. :)
> 
> Jason
> 
> At 12:21 PM 2/26/01 , Ryan McCarthy wrote:
>> A guy walked into the shop about two weeks ago, right off the street, and
>> asked me if I wanted to sell my scirocco. I politely told him hell no (grin)
>> Feels good to have something that's desirable, though. Me and my roc are in
>> it for the long haul, however.
>> 
>> Ryan
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:28:42 -0800, David Liu said:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>  about two years ago, someone put they're bizcard on my windshield and
>> left
>>>>  a number with the accompanying text "i want your car!"
>>> 
>>> Just this past saturday, I went to Candian tire to get parts, and as I
>> asked
>>> for the price for a 1985 volkswagen scirocco heater core, the 3 guys in th
>>> parts dept paused.. all looked at their shelvings, and this guy walks
>> out....
>>> "how much do you want for your scirocco.?" ( I felt like I was on a movie
>>> set... too weird...)
>>> 
>>> It was the oddess (and first time for me...) situation I ever been asked
>> to
>>> sell my car... I told him... not for sale...  he answered name a price...
>> (dont
>>> you just love peer pressure)
>>> I plainly answer 50,000$ and he started laughing...and so did I... and he
>>> said.. "that's too much!"... and I reply... "Indeed.. about that heater
>> core
>>> price?."
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Patrick Bureau < car for sale.... my price 50K >
>>> '85 Scirocco
>>> http://longcoeur.com/scirocco
>>> ----
>>> ICQ   : 32918816
>>> AIM   : PatricDLC
>>> MSN  : Patricdlc@hotmail.com
>>> Yahoo: Longcoeur
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Patrick Bureau
>>> '85 Scirocco
>>> http://longcoeur.com/scirocco
>>> ----
>>> ICQ   : 32918816
>>> AIM   : PatricDLC
>>> MSN  : Patricdlc@hotmail.com
>>> Yahoo: Longcoeur
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
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