Where did you see this car advertised? Another thing you could do is write the
place that ran the ad and tell them of your experience. I doubt they will
cancel them because of you, but if they get a number of complaints they might.
MM
>
> From: "Chris Boekhout" <charger69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2004/06/20 Sun PM 05:12:00 EDT
> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: IML: Warning: bad dealership!!
>
> Country Classic Cars is little more than a high priced junkyard, they are so
>greedy they even charge an admission fee to come in and look at their junk,
>situated between interstate 55 and old route 66 they get a lot of "lookers"
>sadly, they seem to get some "buyers" as well....
>
> Chris,
>
> 72 Lebaron
>
> 71 Lebaron...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Melissa Swenson
> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 11:01 PM
> Subject: IML: Warning: bad dealership!!
>
>
> Hi all.
> A couple of months ago I wrote the club asking for help in finding an
>Imperial for my husband, Eric. Then, about a month ago I wrote asking for
>help on transporting the vehicle to our home.
> Now I am writing to warn everyone about the shady place that sold us our
>Imperial.
> The purchase of our Imperial was supposed to be a surprise for my husband,
>but I ended up involving him, because I didn't want to be taken advantage of,
>not knowing what I was doing.
> Eric found a 1965 Imperial for sale at a dealership that was mentioned on
>this site right after we purchased it, called Country Classic Cars, located in
>Staunton Illinois. Some of you probably saw the ads for it on collector
>trader, and other sites. The dealership had the vehicle for sale for quite
>some time. Well, Eric decided that after several phone calls, and millions of
>questions later that this was the Imperial he wanted. It was a little more
>than I wanted to spend, but he was sure it was worth the money. We were told
>the car was a good runner, as stated also in the ad, all original, no rust,
>and no bondo. We were told everything on the interior worked, and was
>complete. What we got delivered to us was not that car.
> Our Imperial had been painted at least twice, thick with bondo and rust.
>NOTHING in the interior is working, including the power windows which, doesn't
>help with exhaust that is leaking inside the car. Radio is broken, no rear
>seat belts, clock broken, no horn bar, air and heat not working, leaks in
>pretty much everything, etc.. I could go on forever, and in fact Eric has a
>two page list of things that are wrong with the car. We realize the car is
>old and that things are going to be broken. But, that is not what we were
>told when we purchased it.
> The main thing is, is that we bought this car soley on the fact that we
>would be able to go for family rides this summer in it. The car will not even
>drive around our yard. It is so not driveable that he can barely even start
>it up. I am no car expert so I don't know everything that is wrong, but I
>feel bad for Eric that he was taken advantage of so badly.
> Anyways, the whole point of this is to let EVERYONE know NOT to purchase
>anything from these people!! They are not honest business owners!!
> We tried contacting them about this, and the owner literally laughed at us,
>and said there was nothing that he was going to do about it.
> So please tell everyone you know not to shop at Country Classic Cars!!
> Eric and Melissa Swenson
> owner of one very neglected 1965 Imperial Crown
>
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