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Is This ad deceiving ?
« on: July 26, 2013 - 08:35:08 AM »
Please take a moment to read this ad and look at the pictures: http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-classic-cars-40-Year-Classics-Car-Collection-Retirement-Sale-W0QQAdIdZ506982788


Here's a V code 1970 GTX listed....
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Re: Is This ad deceiving ?
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2013 - 08:38:13 AM »
After several emails and even a phone call.....I decided to drive the hour and fourty-five minutes to go check them out...

Here is what I found....

The V code 1970 GTX:
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Re: Is This ad deceiving ?
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2013 - 08:39:18 AM »
Clearly the hub caps are missing..... :swear:
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Re: Is This ad deceiving ?
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2013 - 08:41:09 AM »
Just a little!  :lol:
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Re: Is This ad deceiving ?
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2013 - 08:47:57 AM »
Geez, I would think he would mention that! Lol
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Re: Is This ad deceiving ?
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2013 - 09:22:30 AM »
Wow!  :22yikes: :swear:

Was it a V code?
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Re: Is This ad deceiving ?
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2013 - 09:46:38 AM »
After several emails and even a phone call.....I decided to drive the hour and fourty-five minutes to go check them out...

Here is what I found....

The V code 1970 GTX:

You took your picture from the wrong angle.  That's why it looks different. ;)
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Re: Is This ad deceiving ?
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2013 - 10:02:27 AM »
No real details in the ad but deceiving showing pics of restored cars and not the actual ones for sale.
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Re: Is This ad deceiving ?
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2013 - 10:08:58 AM »
The car deteriorated that much after an hour and forty five minute ride?  :clueless: Good thing you weren't two hours away there would have been nothing left to look at!  :smilielol:

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Re: Is This ad deceiving ?
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2013 - 11:11:03 AM »
Reminds me of years ago when I called about a Challenger. They assured me - no rust. When I got there, I opened the trunk lid and stared at bare ground. It was about an hour drive. Nowadays, that would have been a darn good buy. Back then, it was only 1978 -1979.  The second time was the same thing. Around 1983- 1984. no rust. Bare ground. Of course, back then, there were NO parts at all to be found, except in the junk yards. NO one reproduced anything Mopar at all.  Can't find the ad now, but it was from the Houston newspaper. 70 or 71 Cuda 426 HEMI, balanced blueprinted all kinds of stuff. Tired of racing. car and trailer and parts for $5000.00 I thought about it, then decided I didn't want to be working on something full time, I just wanted a car that I could drive, so I bought a 1987 Buick Grand National. Yeah. What a dummy I was. Of course it might have been a back halved strip car only. I will never know. Still. I ate beans and rice for years to afford that Grand National. I was 25. It was worth every penny. Mopar had nothing at that time to compare. Turbo econo boxes. Yeah, I liked the little Omni GLH, and the Chrysler Lazers, and the Charger 2.2's and the Dodge Rampage, but one ride in a full size car that could blow them and the Fox Mustangs away sold me. Off topic, so I will shut up now. I wonder how much different my life would have been if things had turned out differently........ lol. (my first car was a Charger that I bought at 15) Wish I would have kept my 68  Sport Sattelite  Vert.
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Re: Is This ad deceiving ?
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2013 - 11:15:09 AM »
You took your picture from the wrong angle.  That's why it looks different. ;)

Maybe you're right...I could get in between the two cars to have a look at the driver's side  :dunno: :clueless:
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Re: Is This ad deceiving ?
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2013 - 12:03:30 PM »
deceiving a bit yes, but the description was a bit vague too. the picture is a joke.

Did you manage to see the superbird listed in the ad?
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Re: Is This ad deceiving ?
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2013 - 12:12:39 PM »
deceiving a bit yes, but the description was a bit vague too. the picture is a joke.

Did you manage to see the superbird listed in the ad?

I asked him on the phone if all the cars were at one location, his answer was YES. We got there and asked about the Superbird...he said it was at his house.  :banghead: It's a U code bench seat car in worse shape then the above GTX. Asking pprice on the Superbird is $90K  :22yikes:
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Re: Is This ad deceiving ?
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2013 - 12:15:33 PM »
I asked him on the phone if all the cars were at one location, his answer was YES. We got there and asked about the Superbird...he said it was at his house.  :banghead: It's a U code bench seat car in worse shape then the above GTX. Asking pprice on the Superbird is $90K  :22yikes:

good god 90K? it must be the rare dipped in gold version.
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Re: Is This ad deceiving ?
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2013 - 01:11:22 PM »

Reminds me of another car that came up for sale that I basically blew a day to go see. Not a Mopar but all the same with this story. Talk to the guy on the phone for almost an hour, ask about rust in the undercarriage. He says there is little rust you can easily fix and it's a highly optioned car. Btw, someone is coming to look at the car tonite and its like 9:30pm at nite. So now I wonder if I'll get a call back if its still for sale. Sure enough in the morning I get a call and start to head out to his place. It takes about 1.5 hrs because of traffic and distance.

When I get there right off the bad I can see holes in the tail pan of the car, once I get under the car holy molosis it's swiss cheese. This guy wants 15k for it and then tell him after looking over the car that I won't even bother giving him an offer. Before I leave I ask to look at the engine just for giggles since I came all that way and I find that the guy who looked at the car the nite before has buried the fan right into the radiator. I tell him - there's your problem!

I promptly leave and curse him for wasting all my time....
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