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If you guys don't know me/remember, I blew up my project 528e. To this day, I'm still not quite sure how I did it..
Anyways, itching to get back to working on something, I started looking for a few cars, I kind of want to keep it a secret so here's your hint, It's american, and it can't fit a big block without sawing out 90% of the firewall/strut housings.
Anyways, I bought the car the day I was moving (1 month and half ago) for a cool $400. This thing has been a hell of a time to actually get because of the current owner, auction place, and DMV. I'm so mad and just kind of venting.
Basically, I was moving out of my apartment at the time and a buddy calls me and says "theres a 70's ******* here, should I big on it?" I've been looking for the car for a while, probably since June. Calls me back, says it's rough but salvageable, also said it's been on jackstands in a garage for 10 years prior, so hopefully the floor and frame isn't trashed. To this day, I still haven't seen this thing and I'm sitting on edge all day because I don't want to see it and it be a total basket case.
Anyways, buddy pays auctioneer 200 then and says I'll pay the rest when I pick the car up, sounds fair right? He agrees and tells us to come get it when we're ready. I have a bill of sale, but they said they wanted to get a title and transfer it before selling, so I thought, okay whatever makes my job easier. About 4 weeks ago, I coordinate all of my friends and have the truck and trailer ready to go get this, call the auction place at 10AM on a saturday and tell them "Hey, we're gonna go get that car, then stop at your office and pay the other $200." and he's like "Perfect, I'll call the homeowner and let her know so she doesn't think it's getting stolen, call you right back." So my buddy and I waited, and waited, and waited, 3 hours, call the auction place back and he says she [the homeowner] is worried about letting the car go while it's still in her name or some bs like that. The thing doesn't run and is a little far from it. So cue another 10 hours wasted playing phone tag and all that. Then we decided to call it quits, we'll get it another time. I got a call the next day from the homeowner and she was going on about "Oh theres too many memories to only sell it for 400, etc etc." just kind of trying to milk me for sentimental value which pretty much pissed me off**. So I pretty much told her, that sentimental value doesn't mean shit to me and I'm not paying more (having a bill of sale notarized by the auctioneer's agency) told her I'll just pay someone to repo it, since it is technically mine. To which I drove by her house (she lives a block.5 from my parents and the car is now pulled into the garage and blocked by 2 non running vehicles. So mad, like why's everyone just trying to screw the shit out of you these days?
Probably gonna give it 2 weeks and if they still don't either
a: have the title
or
b: give me the car
I'll just call the police. ughh
**Prior to this ordeal a buddy and I were going to rent a house and the tenant held us in grid lock with our CASH DOWNPAYMENT and then ended up renting it to someone else because he didn't want to move his shit out the garage. He said it was because we didn't make enough a month. (Between both of us we pulled around 9-10k/mo. on a house that's rent would be 1300 + 180 for the garages.)
Anyways, itching to get back to working on something, I started looking for a few cars, I kind of want to keep it a secret so here's your hint, It's american, and it can't fit a big block without sawing out 90% of the firewall/strut housings.
Anyways, I bought the car the day I was moving (1 month and half ago) for a cool $400. This thing has been a hell of a time to actually get because of the current owner, auction place, and DMV. I'm so mad and just kind of venting.
Basically, I was moving out of my apartment at the time and a buddy calls me and says "theres a 70's ******* here, should I big on it?" I've been looking for the car for a while, probably since June. Calls me back, says it's rough but salvageable, also said it's been on jackstands in a garage for 10 years prior, so hopefully the floor and frame isn't trashed. To this day, I still haven't seen this thing and I'm sitting on edge all day because I don't want to see it and it be a total basket case.
Anyways, buddy pays auctioneer 200 then and says I'll pay the rest when I pick the car up, sounds fair right? He agrees and tells us to come get it when we're ready. I have a bill of sale, but they said they wanted to get a title and transfer it before selling, so I thought, okay whatever makes my job easier. About 4 weeks ago, I coordinate all of my friends and have the truck and trailer ready to go get this, call the auction place at 10AM on a saturday and tell them "Hey, we're gonna go get that car, then stop at your office and pay the other $200." and he's like "Perfect, I'll call the homeowner and let her know so she doesn't think it's getting stolen, call you right back." So my buddy and I waited, and waited, and waited, 3 hours, call the auction place back and he says she [the homeowner] is worried about letting the car go while it's still in her name or some bs like that. The thing doesn't run and is a little far from it. So cue another 10 hours wasted playing phone tag and all that. Then we decided to call it quits, we'll get it another time. I got a call the next day from the homeowner and she was going on about "Oh theres too many memories to only sell it for 400, etc etc." just kind of trying to milk me for sentimental value which pretty much pissed me off**. So I pretty much told her, that sentimental value doesn't mean shit to me and I'm not paying more (having a bill of sale notarized by the auctioneer's agency) told her I'll just pay someone to repo it, since it is technically mine. To which I drove by her house (she lives a block.5 from my parents and the car is now pulled into the garage and blocked by 2 non running vehicles. So mad, like why's everyone just trying to screw the shit out of you these days?
Probably gonna give it 2 weeks and if they still don't either a: have the title
or
b: give me the car
I'll just call the police. ughh
**Prior to this ordeal a buddy and I were going to rent a house and the tenant held us in grid lock with our CASH DOWNPAYMENT and then ended up renting it to someone else because he didn't want to move his shit out the garage. He said it was because we didn't make enough a month. (Between both of us we pulled around 9-10k/mo. on a house that's rent would be 1300 + 180 for the garages.)
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