I'm just gonna double this post up so my "drama" level will be lower.....
For the last 2 weeks I have been setting up a deal to buy 2 5.3's from a salvage yard that my neighbor and his son know. I had thought everything was settled. we agreed on a price and that I'd be there to pick them up today.
I stopped by the yard yesterday to let them know I'd be in today and to see what time they'd be ready for pick up...... they didn't have them pulled yet and the employee's were being wishy washy and vague about the whole deal.
I go to the yard today about 3:00 and when I get there, they say the engine's aren't pulled and that the owner doesn't like the price that he agreed on and that I will need to renegotiate with the owner..... these engines are missing the starters and injectors, are not known to run and were bought from the police auction (they were in City of Flint Tahoe patrol units). Now, I've been to the auctions before and I have seen this guy buy Tahoe's for as little as $150.00 but as much as $500.00. I offered him $250.00 per engine and that was the agreed upon price before the renege. I was, to put it mildly, upset. I go next door to a different yard, get a 5.3 fully dressed and known to run, and a almost dressed 5.3 that they didn't know if it ran or not as well as a passenger side window for my '98 Chevy truck (the guide on the window rusted out) for $50.00 less than the other guy who pimped me so it all came out good :hurray: :thumbsup: Time to clean them up :yes:
Now, I know why everyone complains about Craigslist..... as a buyer I have had little to no problem with it, as a seller........
I have a '98 mustang I'm trying to sell (California car) and even though the ad states that it does not run, I have received about 5 calls with people asking "Do it run"..... Do it run? WTF, does you read? 'cause no, it do-ant run
So anyway, no luck selling it so I am starting to strip it to try and e-bay / craigslist some parts and scrap the rest. I get a text asking if it's got a clean title and if I'd be interested in selling the frame. "Frame?" I asked "do you mean the unibody?" So, OK, he is good with that and asks me for a price. I ask what he thinks a unibody consists of, and I told him my definition is floor, roof, trunk and engine compartment structures as well as the quarters but no hood, doors, deck lid, fenders, interior or suspension (or wiring, glass etc, but I wasn't going to strip all that out) and I gave him a price for my definition. He says "OK, send pics" so I spend the next 45 minutes crawling around and under the car sending pics. He mentions how nice the doors are and I said "Tell you what, give me $200.00 more than what I want for the unibody and you can have the whole car, give me another $100.00 and I'll deliver it to your front door with a bow on it (it's about a 130 mile round trip... in a 3/4 ton, extended cab, long box, 4x4) he tells me he can't afford that so, OK....... I ask him if he has a trailer because we'll need to figure out how to load it and he said no, so my curiosity got the best of me, I texted back to him, "so how are you going to get this back home?" he says that he has a tow strap and he's going to tow it behind his truck....... ...... I tell him he can't because he'll grind the body away dragging it on the ground so he says "no, it'll have the wheels on it"..... I then, again, ask what he thinks a unibody / frame is and he responds "everything except the engine and transmission"..........:noway: ............ I am kinda pizzed by now so I ask him to reread my text explaining to him what a unibody is and what he is getting for the quoted price because what he wants is a car without an engine and transmission, not the unibody. I said i'd let my offer of price and delivery stand if he wanted a car with no engine and transmission but that i'd throw in the engine and transmission for that price (if all I had to do was load and go I was willing to take less just so a car this clean wouldn't get scrapped).......
So, if you've made it this far, what do you consider a "frame / unibody"?
For the last 2 weeks I have been setting up a deal to buy 2 5.3's from a salvage yard that my neighbor and his son know. I had thought everything was settled. we agreed on a price and that I'd be there to pick them up today.
I stopped by the yard yesterday to let them know I'd be in today and to see what time they'd be ready for pick up...... they didn't have them pulled yet and the employee's were being wishy washy and vague about the whole deal.
I go to the yard today about 3:00 and when I get there, they say the engine's aren't pulled and that the owner doesn't like the price that he agreed on and that I will need to renegotiate with the owner..... these engines are missing the starters and injectors, are not known to run and were bought from the police auction (they were in City of Flint Tahoe patrol units). Now, I've been to the auctions before and I have seen this guy buy Tahoe's for as little as $150.00 but as much as $500.00. I offered him $250.00 per engine and that was the agreed upon price before the renege. I was, to put it mildly, upset. I go next door to a different yard, get a 5.3 fully dressed and known to run, and a almost dressed 5.3 that they didn't know if it ran or not as well as a passenger side window for my '98 Chevy truck (the guide on the window rusted out) for $50.00 less than the other guy who pimped me so it all came out good :hurray: :thumbsup: Time to clean them up :yes:
Now, I know why everyone complains about Craigslist..... as a buyer I have had little to no problem with it, as a seller........
I have a '98 mustang I'm trying to sell (California car) and even though the ad states that it does not run, I have received about 5 calls with people asking "Do it run"..... Do it run? WTF, does you read? 'cause no, it do-ant run
So anyway, no luck selling it so I am starting to strip it to try and e-bay / craigslist some parts and scrap the rest. I get a text asking if it's got a clean title and if I'd be interested in selling the frame. "Frame?" I asked "do you mean the unibody?" So, OK, he is good with that and asks me for a price. I ask what he thinks a unibody consists of, and I told him my definition is floor, roof, trunk and engine compartment structures as well as the quarters but no hood, doors, deck lid, fenders, interior or suspension (or wiring, glass etc, but I wasn't going to strip all that out) and I gave him a price for my definition. He says "OK, send pics" so I spend the next 45 minutes crawling around and under the car sending pics. He mentions how nice the doors are and I said "Tell you what, give me $200.00 more than what I want for the unibody and you can have the whole car, give me another $100.00 and I'll deliver it to your front door with a bow on it (it's about a 130 mile round trip... in a 3/4 ton, extended cab, long box, 4x4) he tells me he can't afford that so, OK....... I ask him if he has a trailer because we'll need to figure out how to load it and he said no, so my curiosity got the best of me, I texted back to him, "so how are you going to get this back home?" he says that he has a tow strap and he's going to tow it behind his truck.......
...... I tell him he can't because he'll grind the body away dragging it on the ground so he says "no, it'll have the wheels on it"..... I then, again, ask what he thinks a unibody / frame is and he responds "everything except the engine and transmission"..........:noway: ............ I am kinda pizzed by now so I ask him to reread my text explaining to him what a unibody is and what he is getting for the quoted price because what he wants is a car without an engine and transmission, not the unibody. I said i'd let my offer of price and delivery stand if he wanted a car with no engine and transmission but that i'd throw in the engine and transmission for that price (if all I had to do was load and go I was willing to take less just so a car this clean wouldn't get scrapped).......So, if you've made it this far, what do you consider a "frame / unibody"?
