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Re: Import Carlisle

To: msecres@ibm.net
Subject: Re: Import Carlisle
From: fred thomas <vafred@erols.com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 17:08:25 -0700
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
References: <000d01bd7dcd$40501640$2441a1d1@fogbros.nb.net> <3558BC5D.167F@ibm.net>
msecres@ibm.net wrote:
> 
> Ed Woods wrote:
> >
> > Listers,
> >
> [snip]
> > The old saw about "1/2 of the new price" doesn't fly at Import; more like
> > 1/10 of new. Some stuff was laughable like the TR250 with the rear 1/3
> > missing and the front wrecked for (asking) $1500.
> 
> [snip]
> >
> I saw the car and had exactly the same impression. And that ain't all
> that was wrong with it, either.  As I walked by that 250, I said
> something to my wife like "$15-hundred bucks ... good luck!" and then
> felt a little bad when I realized it was probably loud enough for the
> owner to hear.
> 
> Oh well ... just some free market advice, I guess.
> 
> --
> Martin Secrest
> 73 GT6
> 74 Spitfire   
Martin, he got the message when no one even cared to talk to him about 
the car, knew a girl like that once many years ago she was always asking 
to much also, never did get together with her either


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