- 7:23 AM,
Wednesday, April 9th, 2014:
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- These days can't
all be like this. They just can't. I'm so exhausted
and my brain actually hurts. Like a stress
headache that won't go away. Actually though, for the
first time typing this at 7:24am - it feels ok. Maybe
I got some good sleep last night. Then again, the
stress of the day hasn't started either.
LOL.
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- Yesterday, oh my
jesus yesterday. Where do I start? I finally
finalized things late Monday night (could more shit
have happened on April 7th? Jeeeeezus) to go see a car
in the Redlands that Bob and I were fairly
certain was a fair price. $15k down from $16,900. It
ran great, had issues we would have to fix inside, but
at the end of the day I'd hit my $20k mark for the
car.
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- So at 9:45am I
started the drive. Nearly 100 "California" Miles away
with
FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN MY POCKET.
Like, that might sound cool, and for a second it is
indeed fun, but then it's just stress. Anything can go
wrong when you drive that far away - I am alone,
I have a ridiculous amount of cash on me... and I
finally get there...
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- And the car, had
been painted, RED.
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- He did a good job
getting most of it off (said it took him over 50
HOURS) but as anyone knows when you strip paint
without taking everything apart, you get red in the
cracks, crevices, around bolts... it's nearly
impossible to get it all off... which isn't that big
of an issue when you're REPAINTING IT, but
Deloreans are stainless steel... that's the whole
point of them. To boot? You can't very easily PAINT
stainless steel, so the process they had to use back
in the day to get paint to stick to it makes it even
MORE difficult to remove. Of course the guy acted like
all the cracks and bolts, etc. were no big deal, it
comes right off. I was on the phone with Bob of
course to which he replied: "If that was true,
he would've done it already." Duh. But the question
here was was it worth it. He said it added a couple
weeks and certainly some more money because they had
to take so much apart and stripping some of those
areas may not work. He couldn't assure me that he
could get all of that red out from every single bolt,
etc. He said he knew of the car when it was all red
and the owner was trying to sell it for years. This
dude bought it 6 weeks ago, thought he could fix it up
enough and turnaround to sell it. Bob finally said if
it's mechanically BADASS, try to talk him to $12k. The
guy came back out, I said "let's take it for a
spin around the block" and he said "no."
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- ?
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- The car doesn't
have tags, so he won't drive it. He'll turn it on and
let it idle. I wish you could've seen the look
I gave him. IT'S A CAR DUDE.
I have to see it drive. I don't have to be
the one driving it, but it does have to be driven.
I just shook his hand and walked away. I mean are
you fucking serious? Clearly there were other issues
and even knowing how much time and money it was gonna
cost to deal with the red paint (which he conveniently
left out of his pictures on the ad) I was still
gonna buy it and then THAT? Duuuuuuuuuude. Whaaaaaaaat
a dick. For reference, here's the ad:
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