Thread: Clowns in Car yards, Do they think we are stupid?

Originally Posted by sclarke

.... that was better then the looks he was giving my missus... .

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Ron

Yeah, they do, but he will keep telling the same story and eventually some poor bastard will be stuck with it, sounds to me as though its a rebirth or something and its been bolted together from a couple of written off vehicles to make one whole one.

They will tell you anything though. A mate of mine went into a holden dealership and asked to buy a car just like Mark Skaife races. He walks him over to the SS on the show room floor and points to it, here you go, exactly the same but no roll cage. 5.7L motor (yeah right, i but skaife wishes his was 5.7L), he did get the 6 speed box bit right but thats where the similarites end. My mate pointed out all his mistakes and left the salesman there to ponder what had happened and walked out.

It ****es me off cause people who know nothing about cars take what these guys say at face value and get ripped off big time.

Matt

G'day All , that reminds me of a clown who had a car yard in Kurri Kurri about 10 klicks from home, I had seen a Stage 1 for sale in the yard and i knew it had been modified to have a Range Rover coil spring front end instead of leaf springs. So I told this dum s**t that I was just curious and wanted to look at the modifications that had been done to this vehicle, the slaes jerk insisted that it was a factory modified Land Rover done just prior to the 110 release hence the coil sprung front end, I started to tell him that no such vehicle ever existed, he went on to great lenghts to convince me that this was a really scarce Land Rover. What a jerk some poor sod who knew stuff all about Land Rovers could have been sucked in by this clown, imagine a scarce Land Rover factory modifed that no-one else knows about except for this clown that is trying to unload it on some unsuspecting person, would you buy a Stage 1 V8 with coil front end and the Dumb Irons still hanging out in front and the shackle bush still in the chassis as a real "BUY" then I told him I knew the bloke who did the conversion, I left before he blew a gasket stupid 'B' anyway they will try anything cheers Dennis

Originally Posted by Dinty

G'day All , that reminds me of a clown who had a car yard in Kurri Kurri about 10 klicks from home, I had seen a Stage 1 for sale in the yard and i knew it had been modified to have a Range Rover coil spring front end instead of leaf springs. So I told this dum s**t that I was just curious and wanted to look at the modifications that had been done to this vehicle, the slaes jerk insisted that it was a factory modified Land Rover done just prior to the 110 release hence the coil sprung front end, I started to tell him that no such vehicle ever existed, he went on to great lenghts to convince me that this was a really scarce Land Rover. What a jerk some poor sod who knew stuff all about Land Rovers could have been sucked in by this clown, imagine a scarce Land Rover factory modifed that no-one else knows about except for this clown that is trying to unload it on some unsuspecting person, would you buy a Stage 1 V8 with coil front end and the Dumb Irons still hanging out in front and the shackle bush still in the chassis as a real "BUY" then I told him I knew the bloke who did the conversion, I left before he blew a gasket stupid 'B' anyway they will try anything cheers Dennis

Thats it, they dont care who they upset, as long as someone eventually swallows the story and he makes a sale, to someone who thinks they are getting a rare land rover. Matt

I agree mate. I have been sucked in a few times myself but not with a landy I must admit. But then again thats what happens when you are in the "extremely cheapie" market as I have been in the past. BUT what about jokers selling landies on the web as well. And these arent dealers but private people coming out with the most absurd prices and stories of their landies. Im just amazed at some of the prices these people want for their landies. And im not talking discos or defender. SII and SIII at unbelievable prices

Saw a ad this weekend for a restored SII in the local paper for $13,500. Mate at that price it needs to be made of GOLD. Or how about this bloke in South Australia that wants $8750 for a S3 game on Trading Post. Huh... thats the better part of 10K for a 1978 Game! Yes they were a limited release but there were a LOT more made than 250 as he claims in the ad.. and somebody will fall for the story I suppose!

Others are serious rust buckets with a ton of things wrong and they all say "But Land Rovers are made of aluminium and cant rust". Yea right...

Cheers

New car dealers are just as bad. I went with my sister to help her buy a car (toyota corolla). One large toyota dealer just north of the city (Brisbane), tried to convince us (after supposedly phoning around) that there were no vehicles available anywhere in OZ (nor would there be for the next 2 months) except for the higher spec model they had in their lot. We walked out, and went to another toyota dealer who not only had three of the same vehicle (but the base model) in their lot, they also gave my sister the choice of any colour she wanted - and for a very good price!!!

Originally Posted by p38arover

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Ron

Ron,
Try the MudPit........

we had a look at freelander over parramatta way, we asked for test drive but had to agree to buy the car if we test drove it, then had to hand over driving licnce and credit card.
whilst this was happening the diesal engine on the freelander just ran away, lou shut it off before it went to far, the dealer said the choke needed adjustment, i suggested that there was no choke on a diesal and eventually had three sales men telling me i was stupid and what did i know. needless to say we left the dealer fully aware that car dealers here are as trustworthy and honest as the uk.