OT, but cars- Reality is stranger than fiction?

[doubt at inwave.com (Nate Mellom)]

Cathy,
I know for a fact that dealerships love to swap used cars.  If they 
don't think they'll make any money on it, they'll put them up for 
auction and other dealers will buy them, or they'll trade with other 
dealerships for cars that would be mutually beneficial to each.  A few 
years ago my wife bought a Saab 900 in Chicago.  We did some checking 
around, and found out it got traded in at one place, went through 4 
dealers (via auction and cash swaps) before it ended up being buried in 
a "budget" lot of a large dealership (where we found it).  The place we 
got it from wouldn't even dicker with us, they said they were barely 
making any money on the car priced as it was (could be true, they may 
just have wanted to get rid of it).

So in short, yes, that COULD be your car.  Any tell-tale signs to look 
for (besides the VIN, obviously)?

Nate

> So we have this new Mazda, and we traded in our old car at the Mazda
> dealership when we got it.
> Anyway, my son gets talking to his buddy three hours from here, and he's
> saying how he got this new car, a Protege 5. Adam asks him the colour, dark
> blue...so was ours. What tires does it have? Dunlops, and they're noisy on
> the road. We traded ours with those tires because they made you consider
> killling yourself at highway speeds, they howled like a banshee...anyway,
> yeah, he got our car from a Honda dealer! What are the odds? It's hardly a
> rare car. So when he shows up today we'll show him how badly we beat it at
> the track!
>
> Oh, and for today's odd news? There was a cougar spotted back in our woods,
> and not the middle aged human kind that Adam's been known to locate either!
> Cathy
>
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