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Originally Posted by LazarusLong
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Got to his house about 10 the next morning,and the 54 Merc was gone and nobody would answer the door. Which was probably a good thing because it kept me from getting arrested. The SOB finally answered the phone and told me he had sold it to someone else early that morning.
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Sounds like that clown was not trustworthy anyway. You're better off.
I drove to Virginia once to buy an antique Ford. The seller was super nice, honest to a 'T'. He even went over the car with me to point out various small flaws after I got out there.
Anyway he told me that the day after our phone conversation when I told him I'd take the car and was on my way out there from the Midwest, he got a call from somebody in New York that wanted the vehicle. The owner said 'sorry' I already sold it, and the guy from N.Y. said 'I'll give you $3500 over what he paid right now.' The owner said 'no' I don't treat people that way.
When I got to Virginia he told me this story, gave me the guy's phone number and said 'If you want to make a quick 3500 bucks, here you go.' I thanked him for his honesty but said no, I want the car and I'm not looking to sell it just to make money. They even insisted I stay for supper, a farm family about as nice of people as you'd meet!
12 years later and I still have the vehicle and still enjoying the heck out of it
