i paid a lot for mine as well , back in 2004, they were very expensive in those days.., i just hope that it goes so someone who gives a damn.
chris made me get my **** together after i looked at what he did to his car.
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i paid a lot for mine as well , back in 2004, they were very expensive in those days.., i just hope that it goes so someone who gives a damn.
chris made me get my **** together after i looked at what he did to his car.
He's talking out of his arse!! It was never up at £2500, the existing listing proves that. As I mentioned previously in the ad he states he has already purchased his son another car and no longer requires the cougar but the lower bar of the ad states he is open to px. As far as I'm concerned he's a piss taker!
Had an email back: (Apologies for the layout, this is an exact copy and paste of the email as I received it.)
To sum up:
- I feel my ad is fine. I'll not be changing it, so deal with it.
- Tim sold me a dud car and I've had to fork out £700 on a new head gasket. Because I'm such a nice guy, I never mentioned this to Tim.
- Tell your mates to get off my back.
- The price is fair, if you feel otherwise then it's actually Tim's fault for not telling me about the head gasket problem.
- You're all just jealous because Tim didn't give you lot a chance to buy the car.
Can't say I'm particularly chuffed with the response, but I don't see the point in getting into a prolonged email exchange when the guy has clearly made up his mind.
The two things that ring alarm bells in my mind are:
1) If the car had a shot head gasket, it would have begun to manifest itself quite some time prior to Chris's passing. I'm fairly sure he'd have made some mention of that, either on here or at the meets towards the end of the year.
2) I absolutely refuse to believe that Tim would have sold the car with knoweldge but no mention of the problem.
It seems this topic has run it's course. For what it's worth, I really don't think he'll achieve his asking price but (this may sound nasty but I feel it to be justified, given his apparent lack of morals) I actually hope he doesn't.
Buying and fitting an engine would have been less expensive.
Don't believe a word of it.
Like has been said, its his car to do as he wants, and a war of words will achieve little....and Chris would not want that.
Don't believe a word of it.
Like has been said, its his car to do as he wants, and a war of words will achieve little....and Chris would not want that.
Odd theres's no mention of a top end overhaul in the ad.......
Am sure it wouldn't have knowingly been sold as such anyway...
A disappointing response, but hardly unsurprising
Am sure it wouldn't have knowingly been sold as such anyway...
A disappointing response, but hardly unsurprising
That response proves he's talking $hit. If Tim sold the spares car for a measly £25 because HE was concerned about someone's expense in taking the car away then I'm as sure as f&£k he didn't sell a car with a major fault such as a head gasket. How dare he even insinuate that??
The ad and it's immorality aside, how dare the bastard disrespect Tim and Chris?? He has a receipt for "head gasket and skim" did he just have the one done??
That's pissed me right off
The ad and it's immorality aside, how dare the bastard disrespect Tim and Chris?? He has a receipt for "head gasket and skim" did he just have the one done??
That's pissed me right off
I think we are all gonna end up going down the same road as "Thunder-cat" here people, am I right??
We cant complain to the guy about him wanting to sell the car on, its his now to do with what he sees fit. A certain couple of other vehicles have also stirred up feelings in people these past couple of months too, is it right to chastise the new owners of these vehicles too? ... Nope.
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We cant complain to the guy about him wanting to sell the car on, its his now to do with what he sees fit. A certain couple of other vehicles have also stirred up feelings in people these past couple of months too, is it right to chastise the new owners of these vehicles too? ... Nope.
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Last person to actually "drive" the car was RichB at Chris's funeral, and he didn't mention anything untoward.
Last person to actually "start" and run the engine prior to it being sold was myself and there was absolutely nothing wrong with it then. Started 1st time and ran sweet as a nut.
Last person to actually "start" and run the engine prior to it being sold was myself and there was absolutely nothing wrong with it then. Started 1st time and ran sweet as a nut.
Most people have already acknowledged the guy's rights in the selling the car on, Matt.
What I and several others object to, however, is the use of Chris's memory as an advert.
I know the feeling Al, I sold my 1st car to this couple with a small child and after a week they came back to me with all these faults etc. demanding money back, I told them sorry, SOLD as SEEN, tried and tested, their argument then being that they didn't test it and that i'd sold them a dangerous car that should not have been sold and they would take legal action against me (my dad was about two minutes away from telling the guy to f-off or bopping him one) and that they thought they could trust us as we were a nice family....total load of cobblers (i even asked the local old bill and as far as they were concerned it was all above board what i'd done) in the ned to stop the hassle i had the car back and gave them their money back, but I was under no legal obligation to, it was just the hassle. As it happend the so called problems didn't exist they were just time wasting idiots. Sounds like a similar situation here, but whats done is done.
yep close the thread! chris was a nice fella lets a least forget the car and remember him and what he did. thats more inspire for me.
I'm no expert but I believe the car would've at least overheated at some point in the cortege if the head gasket had gone, or maybe have oil in the water when the buyer checked it over. If it's had the work done, then it's probably due to the seller (Not his son as he has no balls and wouldn't be capable of fathering anything) mistreating it, there was no eveidence of any problem when I drove it.
I can see why this causes people distress, Chris was a friend to many on here, the car was an extension of his personality and an icon of our former events organiser, the sad fact is that as nobody here bought it, through choice or financial circumstance, and we all knew it was for sale, then we have no cause to complain about his asking price, I saw it that he was mentioning Chiris and his role here as a selling point regarding the car being cared for as Peter said, but he has contradicted himself by saying the HG was shot. We will all sell up at some point, if we wish to sell the car, then we have to accept that we no longer figure in the cars future, I have issues with this myself, I wouldn't like to see mine covered in stickers, (oh the nightmares!!)
but there is nothing that I could do to prevent this happening if the new owner wished to do it.It's sad that the car has gone from the club, even sadder that Chris is no longer here, hopefully the new owner will come across this club and the car will rejoin us, who knows, maybe the new owner will become a useful member of the club, you never know.