The new owner seems to have a comfort zone similar to mine. Basically. What more would I do if it was going to our daughter still? I said that I'd rebuild the good working trans. Install greaseable front knuckles. Install welded mufflers. Install Vintage A/C, and heat. With a new Sanden A/C compressor. Next a Digi-panel. My offer to him was simple. If he bought the parts. I'd install them for free. I sold it to him for a very resonable price. And now that dependable GMC. Will serve him even longer. I saved it from becoming a chicken coop in Iowa. So now I'm very pleased that this GMC. And the new owner will have many miles of joy together. He's coming to drive it home later this month. To WV. It just drives me crazy when I hear how bad some new ownes get taken by a PO. Bob Dunahugh
My 73 that I sold. Has found a great new owner
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> The new owner seems to have a comfort zone similar to mine. Basically. What more would I do if it was going to our daughter still? I said that
> I'd rebuild the good working trans. Install greaseable front knuckles. Install welded mufflers. Install Vintage A/C, and heat. With a new Sanden A/C
> compressor. Next a Digi-panel. My offer to him was simple. If he bought the parts. I'd install them for free. I sold it to him for a very
> resonable price. And now that dependable GMC. Will serve him even longer. I saved it from becoming a chicken coop in Iowa. So now I'm very pleased
> that this GMC. And the new owner will have many miles of joy together. He's coming to drive it home later this month. To WV. It just drives me
> crazy when I hear how bad some new ownes get taken by a PO. Bob Dunahugh
Bob,
With any luck at all, we will all be someone's PO someday.
What is easy for me to understand now is that many things can go unnoticed because the changes are so slow and over a long period of time and use.
(Wow, When did that Happen?) When I did surveys of yachts that were being considered by someone, it was often a big surprise to the owner when I
found and issue that he had not even noticed.
Our biggest problem this way is that so few new buyers do not buy through our community.
Case: A local person went a goodly distance to buy a coach that looked great. While he has had no mechanical issues, there was a lot of hidden water
damage. We have all seen coaches (including mine) that had serious front end issues that, while not expensive to correct, were significant to long
term driveability.
Do I have an answer?
No.
What I can suggest is that if you are selling a coach or know of one being sold that you offer to do a pre-listing inspection. I am hoping to do this
for some (sort of) local coaches that are the estate of a friend. I really want two things here. I am hoping that the new owners are content with
the purchase and have no expensive surprises, and that the heirs get good value out of the collection. It is my hope that both can be effectively
accomplished.
It is unfortunate that none of the heirs are interested in becoming part of the community.
Matt
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Matt & Mary Colie - '73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan
OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Twixt A2 and Detroit
> I'd rebuild the good working trans. Install greaseable front knuckles. Install welded mufflers. Install Vintage A/C, and heat. With a new Sanden A/C
> compressor. Next a Digi-panel. My offer to him was simple. If he bought the parts. I'd install them for free. I sold it to him for a very
> resonable price. And now that dependable GMC. Will serve him even longer. I saved it from becoming a chicken coop in Iowa. So now I'm very pleased
> that this GMC. And the new owner will have many miles of joy together. He's coming to drive it home later this month. To WV. It just drives me
> crazy when I hear how bad some new ownes get taken by a PO. Bob Dunahugh
Bob,
With any luck at all, we will all be someone's PO someday.
What is easy for me to understand now is that many things can go unnoticed because the changes are so slow and over a long period of time and use.
(Wow, When did that Happen?) When I did surveys of yachts that were being considered by someone, it was often a big surprise to the owner when I
found and issue that he had not even noticed.
Our biggest problem this way is that so few new buyers do not buy through our community.
Case: A local person went a goodly distance to buy a coach that looked great. While he has had no mechanical issues, there was a lot of hidden water
damage. We have all seen coaches (including mine) that had serious front end issues that, while not expensive to correct, were significant to long
term driveability.
Do I have an answer?
No.
What I can suggest is that if you are selling a coach or know of one being sold that you offer to do a pre-listing inspection. I am hoping to do this
for some (sort of) local coaches that are the estate of a friend. I really want two things here. I am hoping that the new owners are content with
the purchase and have no expensive surprises, and that the heirs get good value out of the collection. It is my hope that both can be effectively
accomplished.
It is unfortunate that none of the heirs are interested in becoming part of the community.
Matt
--
Matt & Mary Colie - '73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan
OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Twixt A2 and Detroit
Bob, when I look at a used car, or RV, or whatever, two questions decide whether I buy or not if the price seems right. 1. How long have you owned
it? 2. Why do you want to sell it. I answer these honestly and directly. I sold a high mileage Ford to a guy up the road for his kid. Answers, 1. I
haven't even changed the title because I got it to sell. 2. Because I make a fast hundred on the transaction. He drove it down the road and back, and
laid the price in hundreds. His boy drove it to school all this last year, and is still driving it.
--johnny
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Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
it? 2. Why do you want to sell it. I answer these honestly and directly. I sold a high mileage Ford to a guy up the road for his kid. Answers, 1. I
haven't even changed the title because I got it to sell. 2. Because I make a fast hundred on the transaction. He drove it down the road and back, and
laid the price in hundreds. His boy drove it to school all this last year, and is still driving it.
--johnny
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Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
