last story tonight, I promise....
...I went to the MOPAR Nats looking to buy another T/A or AAR and happened to find this one.....numbers matching, documentation, rust free etc etc......a very, very nice little AAR Cuda.....it was late Sunday and I had given up on buying a car, couldn't find what I wanted when this appeared as we were making the last circle back to our Daytona to pack up and head home to Indiana....a deal was struck, cash ($8,800 I think)counted in the trunk, title was signed and I handed the key to a buddy of mine for the long trip home...we raced most of the way across Ohio with the AAR following the Daytona nose to tail....I got the car home and took it to a couple of shows, drove it for a few weeks and advertised it in the local Auto Trader....it sold the first day for $10,200 to a guy that had owned one identical to it when he was a kid....I delivered it to southern Indiana and felt it had a good home...I told him to call me if he ever decided to sell it again....
....time passes.... about 3 years later I get a call late one night, the guy was drunk and wanted to sell me the car back.....I was stunned at the price, I bought the car back for $300. more than I had sold it to him for (he wanted a profit)....the next night he was supposed to deliver it to me around 1AM after he got off work and drove about 150 miles to my house....about 3AM, I hear the car roaring down the street and it comes sliding into my yard.....the owner, Steve, gets out of the car and is blind drunk, beer cans falling out all over my yard and he has several drunken buddys with him....we exchanged cash for the title and he was on his way....
...I let the AAR Cuda sit with the windows down for a couple of days to air out and get rid of the beer odor, but luckily the car was virtually the same as when I sold it to him except for a small ding in the roof and a few rock chips.....
...I ran an ad in Hemmings within a few days and sold the car to a guy in Dallas Tx....he was to fly in to the MOPAR Nats in Cloumbus and was going to drive the AAR Cuda all the way home to Texas.....while I was waiting on the guy to show up a kid walks up to the AAR, looks it over closely and tells me the car belonged to his mother.....I explained I had just bought it from a guy named Steve and he said this guy was his mothers ex husband, and he had stolen the car from her garage just a few weeks ago, backing it thru a locked garage door (remember the ding in the roof ??)....anyway, later that day the guy from Texas showed up, we exchanged cash($21,500) for title and the AAR was on its way cross country......
...several days later I start getting calls from various family members of the kid I met at the show demanding I return the car to them, I had already sold it.....long story short....the guy had borrowed money from his elderly mother to buy the car from me the first time, never paid her back, divorced his wife and the two women had hidden the car from him till he straightened up, but the title was still in his name, not theirs.....I was threatened with lawsuits by these vindictive women, I told them to go for it.....nothing ever happened....never heard of the AAR Cuda again.....it is possibly still in the Dallas area.....
......playing with MOPARS was a lot of fun thru the years
