Classic Car
Not the actual car, but it looked like this!
Several years ago I went to service a customer’s car. While I was there in his driveway, I noticed that he had a nice looking Pontiac in his garage. I asked him about it, because it looked pretty good. He explained that it was his Father’s car. When his father died about 10 years ago, he left this car to him.
Since he already had a good car, he just put it away in the garage and sort of forgot about it for nine years. He was planning to move out of state, so he decided to take the car out and have it fixed.
The car was a black 1963 Pontiac LeMans Convertible with leather seats. Over the past year he had the convertible top replaced, and the whole car detailed, including the engine compartment.
After putting on new tires, he took out an ad in the Los Angeles Times to sell it. It had been two weeks since the ad, and he had gotten NO response.
I asked him what price he advertised it for and he said he only wanted $3000 for the car. I told him that anybody seeing that ad would think that from the low price, they assumed the car was not worth restoring.
This car was a Classic in perfect condition with 23,000 miles on it, so I told him to put another ad in the Times, this time advertise it for $15,000 and see what happens. He said he would try that but didn’t have much hope for selling the car.
He called me up about a week later, telling me that he sold the car. When I asked him how much he got for it, he told me that the day after the ad came out, he had 3 guys at his house bidding on the car. He finally sold it for $17,000. He told me that a check for $500 was already in the mail for me.
Thinking back, I should have bought that car myself.