Re: [FWDLK] Fwd: Re: [FWDLK] Rejected, neglected, inspected, disrespec

When I was 11, my dad purchased a 65 white Dodge Coronet, slant six, 4 door. A nice looking car, I loved the chrome taillights that wrapped over the fender. The car was short lived: Dad went to a church meeting and left the key in it. It was February and he took the ignition key off the ring so he could open the trunk to get the emply gallon milk bottles to return to the store.

Anyway, he came out after the meeting and, didn't find the car. He called the police, they put out the APB. The cops in the next town saw the car, chased it up on highway, and cops said the guy driving was goining over 100 mph. Coming off the exit, he spun her around and hit a 3 ft wide oak that put the rear bumper very close the back seat. She only had 10k miles on her.

The bastard that stole her had broken out of the Cheshire (CT) Reformatory (now called a "correctional institution") and probably wouldn't have wrecked it if the cops hadn't chased him. BUT he did get caught. His punishment? An extra six months for breaking out, and only 30 days for stealing the car.

Dear old dad spent years recovering from economic loss. His next car was a Dodge 330 4-door w/318. This is what started me liking MOPARs.

Thanks for listening and letting me reminisce a little.
Dave Moore

64-300K

----- Original Message ----
From: Ray Jones <hurst300@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 12:47:58 AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Fwd: Re: [FWDLK] Rejected, neglected, inspected, disrespected

Hope y'all drove back to the Dodge dealership and showed the Sales
Manager what you bought from the competition!
Ray

On Aug 16, 2007, at 11:42 PM, Jan & Roger van Hoy wrote:

Not always a then-and-now matter:

In Spring, 1965 I "helped" my aunt trade in her simply stylish '56
Plymouth Savoy sport coupe [hardtop] on a '65 Dodge Coronet.  She went
in looking for a 440 model [not engine size, for which she wanted a
318] and came out with a Coronet 500 with a 361 and bucket seats, thanx
to me, her 16-year-old car-crazy nephew!  All-in-all a smooth
transaction.

That fall my Dad and I went to the same dealership.  A salesman with
liquor on his breath came up and said, "You don't look like car buyers.
  Show me a $20 bill and I'll show you a car."  Dad said, "Come on,
let's go buy a Chrysler."  And he did, from one of the remaining
family-operated large dealers run by a local decorated WW II hero.

--Roger van Hoy, Washougal, WA, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '56 Plymouth,
'66 Plymouth, '41 Dodge

----- Original Message ----- From: "eastern sierra Adj Services"
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Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:46 PM
Subject: [FWDLK] Fwd: Re: [FWDLK] Rejected, neglected, inspected,
disrespected

> Hope this mesage gets attached!
>
>

> Eh-yup! people WANT to be 'sold'  on a product-purchase; most people
> who
> go to a store-shop  subconsciously want   to have their resistance be
> overcome , by a salesman who validates their intelligence and taste, in
> being there, in the first place, and to make them feel GOOD about
> having
> spent their money, there.
>
> The wife & I, 10 years ago, when we were actively in search of a good
> used Jeep Cherokee, and finding no obvious candidates at Don-a-vee(?)
> Jeep, in L.A., actually had a salesman let us walk  off their lot,
> being motivated buyers ('guess that they already had plenty of THEM) ;
> later that weekend, we bought a nice used Cherokee, from Pasadena
> Jeep/Eagle (then).
>
> Back in the late 60's, my uncle, for whom I was working, in the summer,
> as a  Common laborer, in K.C., for his industrial plumbing
> contractorship, told me to go around to the local Fart dealerships, &
> price out the purchase of another 1/2 ton Company stripper work truck.
>
> Sheeit! a 17 year  old work-grungy kid going to CAR dealerships, &
> 'buying'  a (work) truck?
>
> I got the gamut of welcomes/responses, but Uncle Gibby ended up buying
> a
> truck from the dealership which best wanted to sell me a truck!
>
> Dealerships have always been in the business of moving (and:
> selling-from!) the existing inventory, and it seems that the larger the
> dealership, the less personal-interest the sales staff takes, in any
> Prospect, and their personal needs.
>
> Nowadays (and always?) : find out if the Prospect is ready to buy, how
> much they can spend, or loan-qualify-for, and WHAT  can WE sell to them
> , in their price range? And, only go try to find a car, at some other
> Corporate dealership, that fits their needs, as a last-resort.
>
>
> The  difference between now-and-then : the time-differential involved,
> because spending your valuable time with a tire-kicker/time-
> waster/monetary-loser can cost you a nice
> commission, when a real qualified/qualifiable
> Prospect might show up,  at any time.
>
> So, they gotta go decide whom they want to play-up-to, and whom they'll
> blow-off, in nanoseconds!
>
>
> Neil Vedder
>
>
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