Country Classic advertises in Hemmings and in Old Cars Weekly very often.
Hemmings will drop an advertiser if/when complaints mount up. Please
contact Hemmings and tell them the bad news. Could be they are just waiting
for more bad experiences to pull the outfit from the mag. Same for Old
Cars.
I contacted Hemmings because I could not find a listing for a license plate
restorer I had used at one time. I was told that they did not aaccept ads
from that restorer. They gave me the address/contact and did not go into
detail about why no ads but from the tone and hints I understood, TROUBLE.
Guess they have to be careful about what they can or cannot say.
Henry in Richmond, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: <tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: Re: IML: Warning: bad dealership!!
> 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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