Hey Cam,I don't think I've ever had an easy dealing when selling my cars, but I just shrug it off.
But nothing tops dealing with the diesel truck buyer... especially if you have something unique.
When I was trying to sell one of my trucks - my '96 F250 7.3L ... I had done a TON of work to the truck and despite it having 400K miles on it, the truck didn't look the part and drove perfect. One customer wrote us a terrible review about how awful we were for not taking his offer of 50% of my asking price.
Also when I sold my '01 Excursion 7.3L ... that was a lot of fun. Some guy told me that I should just drive it off a cliff with me in it at my price. LOL. Sold it the next day to a guy who drove from FL to pick it up.
Since this is my Thread we can discuss anything on it that we wish.
I'm glad your jumping on here and telling/sharing some of your personal experiences on selling your vehicles.
Nothing really surprises me dealing with the Public.
I worked in sales for over 30 years and that was dealing with the public.
So, like I said above nothing surprises me at all with the public.
I have given even more thought to my situation recently.
I am going to take the Bullitt to Gateway and have that discussion with them seeing the car in person.
And I have no doubt when Tim is finished with it, it will be up to Show-Car standards.
If Gateway and I get our heads together and all goes smooth then I'll leave it with them.
However if I sense any Bull-Shit I'll simply bring it back home and forget this brilliant idea of selling it.
Also, the other thing I have been tossing around for sometime in my head is, Dropping the Power Level.
And that would be a very easy thing to have done.
If things just simply don't work-out with selling it I'm going to contact Brent at Brenspeed and discuss him personally doing a New Tune and Dropping the H/P way back.
My thinking is if I do that it will greatly reduce the stress on all moving mechanical components.
And in doing so will have it back to actually where it will be much easier to drive on the street once again.
The plus side is all that would have to be changed back to it's current power-level would be a Pulley change on the Roush S/C.
And of course simply Re-Loading the Tune that will remain in the SCT Tuner for that Power-Level.
I don't think I'm at the point to almost IMO give the Bullitt Mustang away just to get rid of it and then have to spend somewhere in the neighborhood of plus $75K for it's replacement.
I appreciate your candid comments on here buddy.
If you have anything else to add please feel free to do so.
Terry
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