[DeTomaso] [SDP] 3277 CHA 1972 DeTomaso Pantera

[Dennis Valdez]

Mike, as far as test drives go I had a similar experience when I bought my car. They would not let me drive the car until we had essentially come to agreement on a price pending my satisfaction with the test drive. Given it was a low mileage car they said they did not want to put miles on it with people that were not serious. 

They let me crawl in, under, and around the car is much as I wanted and I did as much research as I could.

Fortunately, the rather long test drive went flawlessly and I ended up buying the car. I guess I got lucky. 

Dennis Valdez 

> On Feb 24, 2016, at 7:59 PM, Mike Drew via DeTomaso <detomaso at poca.com> wrote:
> 
>   In a message dated 2/23/16 22 41 16, edducati at mac.com writes:
> 
>     Check out this video on YouTube:
>     http://youtu.be/eOrS0SIlEwk
> 
>>>> It's a beautiful video, and might be a great car.  Unfortunately the
>   dealer leaves more than a bit to be desired.
>   I've been working with three different people who have made various
>   attempts to buy this car, one of them quite seriously.  The asking
>   price was $75K, and he got them to agree to $70K.  He made a commitment
>   to buy the car at that price, and was going to fly out on the weekend
>   to buy it.  No money traded hands, but he had a commitment and was in
>   the process of buying a plane ticket to go see it, and pay for it.
>   They called him a day later and told him that somebody else was
>   expressing interest, and if he really wanted the car, he had better
>   increase his offer right away.  He reminded them that they already had
>   a deal.  They told him the deal was off, and demanded more money.  He
>   told them to go pound sand.
>   That was weeks ago, and they are still trying to sell the car.
>   Some forum dudes went to look at the car on his behalf, and they
>   wouldn't let them drive it!  Who the heck goes to buy a car and doesn't
>   test-drive it?  Oh, they could sit in it and make vroom vroom noises,
>   and I guess they could drive it around a parking lot, but that's it.
>   Clearly these guys don't know how to sell a car.  Until their attitude
>   improves, they will likely have it for quite some time....
>   Mike
> _______________________________________________
> 
> Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA
> Posted emails must not exceed 1.5 Megabytes
> DeTomaso mailing list
> DeTomaso at poca.com
> http://poca.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso_poca.com
> 
> To manage your subscription (change email address, unsubscribe, etc.) use the links above.