Bronze Brick

[Texas82GP]

My impressions of this whole story to me reads worse than some scripted reality show. Here's how I'm reading all this and interpret it to mean based on how it sounds to me:

You've got a guy selling a car, but wanting to control its life in perpetuity.

You've got a buyer who may or may not know this depending who you believe, but, rubs the sellers nose in a car getting hacked and it's parts abused.

You've got a "loaned" drivetrain, as if motortrend can't open a catalog and buy whatever they want for cash, with a purported "promise" to return it in as good or better shape.

You got a mixture of hearing how the drivetrain is now property of motor trend despite promises of its return, but, you've also got later statement that the drivetrain is in a safe place to be updated. Which... doesn't make sense, but I guess no more or less than the rest.

Then we're told just because of a Facebook post to some third party now the car is unwanted and all love lost, although earlier were told it was 12 surgeries that mean the car can't be worked on is a reason for a sale... but, if I had 12 surgeries that left me so poorly off I couldn't work on a car, why would I have bought it to begin with?

So now it's for sale at a somewhat ridiculous price for a roller with a trash motor thrown in that needs a rebuild and had no oil pressure, and yet within a sentence later was still a healthy motor despite needing said rebuild and having lost oil pressure right after being first used..

But it's not being sold to get the most money, its being sold cheaper than a better offer because someone who claims to have lost all love for a car (and thus shouldn't care anything about it if they lost all love) wants to decide where it goes, but IS going to dictate that they won't recover the former drivetrain to go with it that, by their own words, is entitled to be returned as good or better than when it was removed.

My impression is it sounds like honey boo boo's family bought the car and are trying to tee up some new reality spin off.

POPCORN, GET YOUR POPCORN HERE!

Agreed. 2+2=7 in this story. Too much bad TV being made.

 

[melloelky]

Agreed. 2+2=7 in this story. Too much bad TV being made.

that TV math's nothing new..it's been kinda bad for a long time. 😏

 

[Jakefromstatefarm]

This whole story reminds me of buying a house... Somebody somewhere built that house... And once you buy it they are mad because you remodeled it to how you wanted it, you now own it, you could bulldoze the damn thing... Or light it on fire.

I don't know any of the parties involved here, I have no emotional investment here, I just see this as a high school s*&+ show

Don't sell something then cry it's getting changed... If you didn't want it changed, don't sell it, if you sell it, take your money and shut up.

 

[ck80]

Agreed. 2+2=7 in this story. Too much bad TV being made.

that TV math's nothing new..it's been kinda bad for a long time. 😏

Try this for a hypothetical:

Buyer goes to see a car and gushes over how it's originality and condition, the backstory really sell him on it. Seller interprets this as meaning it's going to someone who wants to keep an original car.

Unbeknownst to seller, buyer was seeking a very clean original looking car with a good backstory with intent to butcher for shock value. What's better and more taboo than cutting up a "special" Chevy to stuff it's heart and soul into a Ford just to try and grenade it for grins.

Seller then is upset and feels misled, authentic reaction. Starts to voice this feeling. Buyer, appears to have a very thin skin and fragile ego that can't handle being criticized. Having made money through the "show" buyer decides to stem the criticism and attacks by concocting various "stories" that create 2+2=7 math to get out of the situation, having not foreseen the backlash.

Pure hypothetical, and just like on law and order any resemblance to actual parties, real or fictitious, is coincidental

 

[motorheadmike]

Checks to see how the thread is developing...

 

[Supercharged111]

I'm more interested in why they haven't returned YOUR motor and transmission to you as agreed upon? What you do with it is your business.

 

[FasBu’s75]

Shew. Y’all got some serious imaginations.
1. 12 surgeries later but still had intentions of paying a major shop to build this car out.
2. I have no ego whatsoever.
3. Motortrend needed a motor immediately to finish a show. like in that moment and put off filming for 36 hours while paying a lot of people from California to wait for the swap
4. I didn’t rub Bobs nose in anything. There was a lot of bragging on him and his creation on and off camera. I only wanted to share with him.
5. Editing made it look like we done a 13 minute burnout at 10,000 rpm
6. The car has not been hacked up. The motor and trans was pulled out with it most care.
7. I got sick of the bitching and the ASSuming like you guys are doing here and dissecting every word.
8. I was offered X but accepted Y simply because the man has plans with his kids (Dear baby Jesus)
9. I done forgot all the crap that’s been spewed.
Come at me Bro. Lol. Just kidding

 

[FasBu’s75]

I'm more interested in why they haven't returned YOUR motor and transmission to you as agreed upon? What you do with it is your business.

Exactly!!

Try this for a hypothetical:

Buyer goes to see a car and gushes over how it's originality and condition, the backstory really sell him on it. Seller interprets this as meaning it's going to someone who wants to keep an original car.

Unbeknownst to seller, buyer was seeking a very clean original looking car with a good backstory with intent to butcher for shock value. What's better and more taboo than cutting up a "special" Chevy to stuff it's heart and soul into a Ford just to try and grenade it for grins.

Seller then is upset and feels misled, authentic reaction. Starts to voice this feeling. Buyer, appears to have a very thin skin and fragile ego that can't handle being criticized. Having made money through the "show" buyer decides to stem the criticism and attacks by concocting various "stories" that create 2+2=7 math to get out of the situation, having not foreseen the backlash.

Pure hypothetical, and just like on law and order any resemblance to actual parties, real or fictitious, is coincidental

No SBC or Egos were harmed in the filming of this show 😂

 

[FasBu’s75]

Try this for a hypothetical:

Buyer goes to see a car and gushes over how it's originality and condition, the backstory really sell him on it. Seller interprets this as meaning it's going to someone who wants to keep an original car.

Unbeknownst to seller, buyer was seeking a very clean original looking car with a good backstory with intent to butcher for shock value. What's better and more taboo than cutting up a "special" Chevy to stuff it's heart and soul into a Ford just to try and grenade it for grins.

Seller then is upset and feels misled, authentic reaction. Starts to voice this feeling. Buyer, appears to have a very thin skin and fragile ego that can't handle being criticized. Having made money through the "show" buyer decides to stem the criticism and attacks by concocting various "stories" that create 2+2=7 math to get out of the situation, having not foreseen the backlash.

Pure hypothetical, and just like on law and order any resemblance to actual parties, real or fictitious, is coincidental

Don’t know how to just grab the words I’m referring to but ... I bought the car sight unseen.
And for the record Bob and I are still close friends. He stayed at my house a couple days when the GuTo broke on him. I think the world of Ole Bob. I will (if my health lets me) be doing drag week in Turbo truck and will most likely stop for the night at Bobs house.

 

[oldsmobile joe]

this is weird, i type "g-body forum" into my computer and "real olds power" comes up.
now all we need is Whoppi and Joy to join in.