No tights or roller skates, just a tan logo shirt and black pants. Actually, I wish we had used the roller skates. On a Friday or Saturday night, my legs would get sore from all of the running that I did. We averaged 500-600 cars per night, and there were only three of us hops. You really had to stay on the move. The tips weren't bad considering that my friends didn't have much money as teenagers back then. It was a good summer job---better than picking peaches in the local orchards. I tried that one summer. It was a killer with the peach fuzz stuck all over your body. Our pay came in little brown envelopes. Remember those? My dad made me save half of the money. What's half of $24 for a six day week?! :sick:
"...He than says he has to go (which I was happy to hear)..."
I'm confused here. I know it must be frustrating to encounter a customer who has his mind set on buying something you don't have but isn't that better than having some clown who jerks you around with a story that turns out not to be true. I mean, with this guy you could conclude that he wasn't going to find what he wanted and broom him on his way. Better than the customer who tells you he wants a Malibu and then later you find out he really wants a Sentra but didn't want to tell you that.
Or are you saying you think that is what this guy was pulling on you?
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
Though not related to reporting cash to the IRS, here is another interesting fact. If you make a single deposit into your bank account above $10,000, the FBI flags your account...bank mortgage checks don't count. My wife recently received $50,000 from her aunt's estate. The bank teller informed her that the Money Market account would be flagged. Apparently, it is a routine procedure. Snake, have you heard of this?
"WHY. would you want the high beam button on the floor?"
Isell--
I really wouldn't want to return to those days. I put an emotocon (or whatever those little symbols are called) next to that sentence, but maybe I picked the wrong one. I am discovering, however, that I frequently accidentally nudge the left turn signal stalk on my Mazda3 so that when I flip my lights on the high beam is already activated. Never had that problem with our Honda, which required a much firmer tug towards the driver.
Speaking of a feature no longer offered, my 75 Plymouth Valiant had a pair of small, rear-facing orange lamps, one on each side of the hood just above the headlight. Each blinked when the driver activated the appropriate turn signal, but the left (driver's side) had an extra feature--likely a response to earlier gas price hikes. The light would come on immediately during hard, and not-so-hard acceleration (quite often actually) reminding the driver that he was getting poor mpg performance. It would stay on until the driver let off the gas. I believe Chrysler put this feature on a number of their models in that period. Look at how prescient Chrysler was, beating both the Honda Insight and Toyota Prius by 25 years! Of course, I'd be the first to say that the glitzy power management screens in the Hondas and Toyotas are much more graphic and informative. Sadly, Chrysler has moved in a different direction, embracing late-60s mopar nostalgia with Hemi engine gas hogs.
Incidentally, that car, like many others of that era, had manual windows and door locks and a AM radio. It also had the completely bone headed concave rear window without any glass defrosting element. Try cleaning your windows in WI and MI in the winter when you can only hit two small contact points on the glass with your scraper! :sick: :sick: On a few occasions the tire iron was removed from the trunk for especially intransigent ice and the glass never looked very good after that. I spent a lot of days cursing the industrial designers at Chrysler. Probably one of the reasons I still don't own another.
If you make a single deposit into your bank account above $10,000, the FBI flags your account ...
Those are the same flags that got set when Rush Limbaugh made those $9,000 withdrawals from his own savings accounts - because those withdrawals were suspiciously close to the $10,000 threshold.
Is this a New England misunderstanding or do I detect this is the “sauce” at work again?
This could be just a my dealership thing.... What you are talking about could be another version of what I am talking about...
And for the record... May 4th will be 3 months since I have been off the "sauce"... ?Still working on my goal of loosing 50 pounds before I take a sip... :shades:
The finance manager advices the customer that the IRS form will be filed and I believe at my store the operations department does it when the deal gets sent to them for final processing. Mack
Or are you saying you think that is what this guy was pulling on you?
I don't mean to sound negative but.... I have a guy who wants what I don't have... Who wouldn't give Nissan a shot because he never heard Nissan was reliable from the internet... And tells me he won't take a Nissan but comes to a Nissan store. Not to mention it was a Saturday afternoon and real buyers were all over the place.
Let me ask it this way. If you were in my shoes and there are buyers all over the place would you want to talk to the guy who you have a 1% chance of selling a car and if you don't sell him a car you end up spending 2 hours with. Or would you rather talk to a person who is interested in the product you sell and have a 20% chance with.
I only use 20% because that is the national average... My closing percentage this month is 43%... Now I don't take into comsideration anyone like this guy that I broomed for the record. Some people count that. If find out in the first 30 seconds that I don't have a shot I just try and move on...
But for today for instance... A young lady comes in and wants to look at Altimas and Accords(n we only sell altimas) She tells me it has to be a stick and she is going to a Honda dealer later today. Now I don't have a stick on the lot but I find out why she wants a stick. She thinks its cheaper, better in the snow, better pick up, and better control. 3 out of 4 those things I can overcome. The control part I agree with. The other 3 price,snow,and acceleration I can overcome :shades:
Two hours later she was in the box signing up with a automatic done deal :surprise:
Peaches huh? that's one fruit I never picked while growing up in New Mexico. I did pick cotton, pecans, tomatoes, and onions. Onions paid the best but you couldn't get the smell off your hands for months. Needless to say the girls would pick up on the smell and ask what type of work I was doing. I also did some grafting on pecan tree seedlings, that was a tough job but paid well. It was like being on commission. You got paid on the number of seedlings that budded. But those summer jobs are what helped me to get my first car. A 1964 Ford T-bird. (Joel would be proud of me) that was one tough car! I ran over a medium and took a couple of signs with me and the car never complained. Once at a party I was making out with one of my girlfriends when I hear a loud crash on the street. We walked out to see what it was and a friend of mine had run into the back of it with his Chevy station wagon. The T-bird just sat there and took the hit. Not a single scratch on it and my bud's wagon's front end was thorn up! I did wreck the car one night while negotiating a 15mph curve doing about 45mph. Slammed right into a light post and knocked out power around a 4 mile radius. This time the T-bird took a big punch. The passenger side door was crushed right where the door handle was but the glass did not break. The car was wedged and I couldn't move it as the engine was still running. Lucky for me a few friends that lived nearby heard the crash and saw the lights go out so they went to investigate. They helped me move the car and I left. When I got home I parked the car so that my mom couldn't see the door from the kitchen window. That didn't last long as about a week later all I heard was my mom screaming from the kitchen: "Mackabee! what did you do to your car!"
Good job GP! I'm proud of you!. Now just stay away from the sauce and you won't regret it. You'll feel better and won't be waking up with headaches and pain and your family and friends will love you for it. This is when you find out who your real friends are. Remember "One day at a time" Mackabee :shades:
I can relate with GP on this one. Yesterday I find a couple walking the front line where most of our white cars and trucks are parked as we are having a "White sale" There's a radio ad and also a flyer that went out to thousands of households. The flyer reads something like "We ordered hundreds of white cars and are having a big sale to unload them!" As if white cars were hard to sell. The flyer and radio ad also state that all new white cards will be discounted 10-25% off MSRP! Please. We don't have those mark ups on new cars now days. Maybe 10% at most. So anyway to get bac k to my story. I approach the couple and as it's the case in most situations the wife is 30 feet away looking at one car while the husband is looking at a truck. I approached the husband since he was closest and asked how I could be of assistance. "We heard on the radio that you're discounting alll new white cars and trucks 40%." he tells me. "What ? 40% percent.?" I reply with a look of surprise on my face :confuse: "That's what they said on the radio, right honey?" he asks his wife as she approaches us. "Something like that." she says. So I tell them it's 10-25% and some vehicles have a higher discount than others. "Which vehicle are you interested in? " I ask them. "Talk to her, she's the one looking for an SUV." he replies. I noticed he's wearing a sling on his right arm and ask him about it. "I had surgery yesterday." he responds. "Which hospital?" I ask as he looks military and he responds that he had the surgery done at the naval hospital. So we make small talk and then I start asking the wife some questions. "What if I don't like a white one and want a different color?" she asks. "You'll get comparable savings. We have rebates and factory incentives on 4runners right now." I reply. There are only four other 4runners on the front lot and I tell them we have more behind the building if they would like to look at them. They agree and instead of walking I offer them a ride and open one of the white 4runners and ask them to jump in. She gets in the passenger side seat and he climbs into the back seat. "Can you make it ok?" she asks him. "Yeah, I'm fine." he says. Now picture this, we have over 400 cars and trucks on the lot plus there are customers on the lot walking the inventory so I'm very careful driving to the back lot. When we get there I stop the 4runner and before I say "Let's go look at them" the guy goes postal on me. "Don't move the vehicle anymore! I'm getting off here. I don't like to be jerked around with the way you're driving.!" :confuse: he opens the door and his wife is really embarrased and doesn't say a word. He gets off the truck and says "We are walking back, have a nice day!" and they start walking back to their car. I'm still trying to figure out what I said or did to piss him off. I'm thinking, "You just had surgery on your arm yesterday, you're not taking your pain pills, and you're out here in 95 degree weather plus on the black top looking at cars?" :confuse: I did ask him before if he was taking pain pills and he told me he was prescribed vicodin but wasn't taking any. He was a big Macho man so no pain killers need. So anyway, I vented with one of my colleagues and went back to work. :shades:
"...my 75 Plymouth Valiant had a pair of small, rear-facing orange lamps...The light would come on immediately during hard...acceleration reminding the driver that he was getting poor mpg..."
Knowing Chrysler products of that era, it was probably a short in the electrical system.
My 69 Plymouth had a similar warning system in it's later years. On hard acceleration the engine would rear up and bang on the hood while pulling the hose off the power steering pump. The mechanics said it was a broken motor mount but I knew it was just my old Plymouth telling me to slow down.
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
"...because those withdrawals were suspiciously close to the $10,000 threshold..."
They don't even have to be close to 10K, just suspicious. A group of local brothers were sent to the slammer for moving several millions back and forth between their gas stations in amounts around $5-6K.
Still, the passive-aggressive side of me wonders what would happen if I moved 10K of my money back and forth between my accounts numerous times just to cheese off the feds.
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
I would have kindly explained that we didn't have what he was looking for and taken his info in case something came in. Depending on my mood, I would have done this before or after I got done jumping up and down on his chest.
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
you might be referring to me, I still hang out lurking here everyday. As far as the Nash cruiser, no, that was even before my time, my first was a 65 Biscayne 4 dr with a 396, this was in 1965 when I started.
Not sure what they mean about being flagged but any transfer of funds 10 grand or over has to be reported to the IRS (This includes mortgage payments but who has $10K mortgage payments?).
Also repeated transfers between the same two accounts over a short period of time that meet or exceed 10 grand need to be reported.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Hey Mack, have you heard anything about health concerns with the Prius by driving around in a magnetic field for hours at a time? Inquiring minds want to know!
When we get there I stop the 4runner and before I say "Let's go look at them" the guy goes postal on me.
Mackabee, you are dating your self with that term, thats so 70's. The new term is you have gone "scholastic" with regard to all the school shootings/ planned school shootings and just general school violence. Just last week it was in the news a kid ordered triple 13 fertilizer off the internet to make a bomb to blow up his school. Lucky for the students the kids mom intercepted the fertilizer and turned her own son in before he could do the crime. To keep it on car topic so many salesmen from the 70's worn plaid polyster suits with red ties.
you might be referring to me, I still hang out lurking here everyday.
Darn, you’re good officer. I didn’t think you’d find me this quick. I guess I was above the radar once too often. Glad to see there is still a pulse.
As far as the Nash cruiser, no, that was even before my time, my first was a 65 Biscayne 4 dr with a 396, this was in 1965 when I started.
My Father had a 65’ Impala, 4 dr. hardtop with the 327. He wasn’t used to that kind of power; said he had to try to hold it down. Sometimes he just didn’t try very hard. I remember one time my Mother said, “He thinks he’s 20 years old again. We should never have gotten rid of that station wagon”. I don’t think that comment bothered him given the smile he had on his face when she said it.
FWIW, 1965 was the year I started with the company I stayed with until I retired. That was a very good year.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
Peaches huh? that's one fruit I never picked while growing up in New Mexico.
The next time you and Richard get together and talk about your pickings, since he had so much peach fuzz on himself after all the peach picking he did, ask him if he remembers who it was that first discovered fuzz on peaches and don't let him duck out of this.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
6 years ago today (actually it was a Saturday, 4/27/02) I took delivery of my Milano Red, '01 Honda Prelude Type SH. It was sitting on a dealer's lot for 6 months and was one of the last Preludes ever produced by Honda (build date of 10/01). As of today I've got 95,899 miles on it and it is still as tight and fun to drive as the day I picked it up.
2001 Prelude Type SH, 2022 Highlander XLE AWD, 2025 Camry SE AWD
Before my time but I read where the CHP used 1955 Buick Century 2 door post sedans with three speed manual transmissions.
Centurys were very fast cars. They were basically Specials with the Roadmaster engine.
Last night, I just happened to see the most beautiful one I have ever seen. Restored to better than new condition. A 55 Century hardtop, black and white.
Oh I don't know about that you can flat spot a modern radial. I have had LR3s, might have something to do with being almost 6,000 lbs though, with flat spots before and you can usually run them out by doing enough high speed driving with hot tires but not always.
Echelon Ford makes sense. I can walk to there if I get ambitious (maybe 1-2 miles tops).
I did learn something though. Seems the Controur has ABS brakes, and I didn't even realize it!
I know I am doing this backwards, but I am taking it to my indy guy this week for a good once over. Had to decide quick to buy it on my own analysis, and I don't really trust that completely anymore. Don't think he will find any nasty surprises, but I just want to make sure!
When I bought my car, the dealer I worked with had 6 base models with slushboxes sitting on their lot. They were selling them crazy cheap, but I HAD to have a stick!
I had the timing belt service (along with everything else that goes with it) done around 75K miles. I'm fanatical about preventitave maintenance. I've only used synthetic oil. The engine is so clean. When I had the valve cover gasket replaced a few years ago, the mechanic who worked on my car told me it was so clean underneath that he could take it off and serve Thanksgiving dinner on it!
2001 Prelude Type SH, 2022 Highlander XLE AWD, 2025 Camry SE AWD
Still, the passive-aggressive side of me wonders what would happen if I moved 10K of my money back and forth between my accounts numerous times just to cheese off the feds.
LOL We have to make you stop posting three replies in a row. You had me laughing so hard that I now have salsa con queso and Tostitos all over my monitor. :surprise:
"Mackabee, you are dating your self with that term, thats so 70's. "
Hey! I like dating myself. I'm good looking, don't ask for much, and I respect myself in the morning! I could have used "ballistic" instead but thought "postal" would come across a lot better.
In other news, a young couple I spoke with on Friday stopped by the store today although I was not working. One of my colleagues called me and gave me their cell phone as the husband was a bit skeptical and didn't want to provide any info. Unlike the wife who was very charming and their cute little four year old daughter who by the time they left on friday she thought I was her grandpa. I finally got some words out of him and he told me he was looking for an xB, first generation pre-owned. With the current state of affairs with our gas crisis no one is trading those puppies in due to the great mileage they get. So I told them we didn't have any on the lot and also looked up our website to see if any of our other stores had any but no luck. So I thanked them and gave them my card in case they decided to come back. The guy had a self defeating attitude, he kept telling me even if I found one I couldn't match his price. So right before they left I asked him what his budget or price range was. "8k." he replied. I told him he was right. The last xB we had that was around that price was one of the first ones and it had just about 100k miles on her. So to make a long story longer, I called them back and he picks up the phone and pretends not to know me. "You were just at the store and my colleague showed you a car and he called me to let me know. He told me you told him to let me know you are are still looking for an 8k xB. I'll let you know if we get one in.:" I told him. "Keep an eye out for a Matrix, Vibe, and xB" he tells me. I ask him for his last name and he says: "What do you need that for?" I reply: "So I can keep you on my data base and when a car that you're interested in comes in I can give you a call. The data base will remind me to stay in touch so that I don't forget what car you're looking for." He still doesn't give me his last name but at least I got the first name and a phone number. We'll see if the mythical 8k Matrix, Vibe, or xB suddenly appears on our lot. Mack
My son's SH has just over 90k on it. It is a lot of fun to drive. I did get embarrased by a Dodge Neon R/T at a light a few months ago. By the time the V-TECH kicked in the Neon was long gone! I didn't have the heart to tell my son.
yeah, 1965 was a very good year, led to a 33 year career and a pension, something that today is very hard to match unfortunately.
The mid-60's full size Chevies were real work horses, just kept running even when knocked around. An amusing fact to me is when I started, the old-timers told me that every police cruiser no matter the make was stick shift (three on the tree) until about 1956. I could just imagine shifting and clutching in city traffic for 8 straight hours in heavy city traffic every day.
Those old-timers must have had left legs about as big as a tree trunk.
I think the Buick Specials were the most popular for Highway Patrols. During the 50's, almost no city police used the Buicks or the like, they used Fords, Plymouths and Chevies, the thought was the heavy Buicks and Olds were for high-speed freeway work.
Do you recall in 1957 Ford Motors came out with the 1957 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser as a civilian vehicle as a direct take-off of the Highway Patrols using the big Mercs on the freeway, these things really ate up the high-speed roads.
Hey Mack, have you heard anything about health concerns with the Prius by driving around in a magnetic field for hours at a time? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Richard
I'm confused here. I know it must be frustrating to encounter a customer who has his mind set on buying something you don't have but isn't that better than having some clown who jerks you around with a story that turns out not to be true. I mean, with this guy you could conclude that he wasn't going to find what he wanted and broom him on his way. Better than the customer who tells you he wants a Malibu and then later you find out he really wants a Sentra but didn't want to tell you that.
Or are you saying you think that is what this guy was pulling on you?
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
Richard
Because you're easily swayed and are subject to outside distractions. Try keeping your head in this discussion. :P
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
Thanks, I’ll try and stay focused.
Isell--
I really wouldn't want to return to those days. I put an emotocon (or whatever those little symbols are called) next to that sentence, but maybe I picked the wrong one. I am discovering, however, that I frequently accidentally nudge the left turn signal stalk on my Mazda3 so that when I flip my lights on the high beam is already activated. Never had that problem with our Honda, which required a much firmer tug towards the driver.
Speaking of a feature no longer offered, my 75 Plymouth Valiant had a pair of small, rear-facing orange lamps, one on each side of the hood just above the headlight. Each blinked when the driver activated the appropriate turn signal, but the left (driver's side) had an extra feature--likely a response to earlier gas price hikes. The light would come on immediately during hard, and not-so-hard acceleration (quite often actually) reminding the driver that he was getting poor mpg performance. It would stay on until the driver let off the gas. I believe Chrysler put this feature on a number of their models in that period. Look at how prescient Chrysler was, beating both the Honda Insight and Toyota Prius by 25 years!
Incidentally, that car, like many others of that era, had manual windows and door locks and a AM radio. It also had the completely bone headed concave rear window without any glass defrosting element. Try cleaning your windows in WI and MI in the winter when you can only hit two small contact points on the glass with your scraper! :sick: :sick: On a few occasions the tire iron was removed from the trunk for especially intransigent ice and the glass never looked very good after that. I spent a lot of days cursing the industrial designers at Chrysler. Probably one of the reasons I still don't own another.
Gogiboy
Those are the same flags that got set when Rush Limbaugh made those $9,000 withdrawals from his own savings accounts - because those withdrawals were suspiciously close to the $10,000 threshold.
tidester, host
SUVs and Smart Shopper
Modern tires don't flat spot. This used to happen with the nylon tires of years ago.
This could be just a my dealership thing.... What you are talking about could be another version of what I am talking about...
And for the record... May 4th will be 3 months since I have been off the "sauce"... ?Still working on my goal of loosing 50 pounds before I take a sip... :shades:
But I have to give you props for a "good shot"
GP
Mack
Mack
I don't mean to sound negative but.... I have a guy who wants what I don't have... Who wouldn't give Nissan a shot because he never heard Nissan was reliable from the internet... And tells me he won't take a Nissan but comes to a Nissan store. Not to mention it was a Saturday afternoon and real buyers were all over the place.
Let me ask it this way. If you were in my shoes and there are buyers all over the place would you want to talk to the guy who you have a 1% chance of selling a car and if you don't sell him a car you end up spending 2 hours with. Or would you rather talk to a person who is interested in the product you sell and have a 20% chance with.
I only use 20% because that is the national average... My closing percentage this month is 43%... Now I don't take into comsideration anyone like this guy that I broomed for the record. Some people count that. If find out in the first 30 seconds that I don't have a shot I just try and move on...
But for today for instance... A young lady comes in and wants to look at Altimas and Accords(n we only sell altimas) She tells me it has to be a stick and she is going to a Honda dealer later today. Now I don't have a stick on the lot but I find out why she wants a stick. She thinks its cheaper, better in the snow, better pick up, and better control. 3 out of 4 those things I can overcome. The control part I agree with. The other 3 price,snow,and acceleration I can overcome :shades:
Two hours later she was in the box signing up with a automatic done deal :surprise:
When I got home I parked the car so that my mom couldn't see the door from the kitchen window. That didn't last long as about a week later all I heard was my mom screaming from the kitchen: "Mackabee! what did you do to your car!"
Mackabee :shades:
There's a radio ad and also a flyer that went out to thousands of households. The flyer reads something like "We ordered hundreds of white cars and are having a big sale to unload them!" As if white cars were hard to sell. The flyer and radio ad also state that all new white cards will be discounted 10-25% off MSRP! Please.
We don't have those mark ups on new cars now days. Maybe 10% at most. So anyway to get bac k to my story. I approach the couple and as it's the case in most situations the wife is 30 feet away looking at one car while the husband is looking at a truck. I approached the husband since he was closest and asked how I could be of assistance. "We heard on the radio that you're discounting alll new white cars and trucks 40%." he tells me. "What ? 40% percent.?" I reply with a look of surprise on my face :confuse: "That's what they said on the radio, right honey?" he asks his wife as she approaches us. "Something like that." she says. So I tell them it's 10-25% and some vehicles have a higher discount than others. "Which vehicle are you interested in? " I ask them. "Talk to her, she's the one looking for an SUV." he replies. I noticed he's wearing a sling on his right arm and ask him about it. "I had surgery yesterday." he responds. "Which hospital?" I ask as he looks military and he responds that he had the surgery done at the naval hospital. So we make small talk and then I start asking the wife some questions. "What if I don't like a white one and want a different color?" she asks. "You'll get comparable savings. We have rebates and factory incentives on 4runners right now." I reply. There are only four other 4runners on the front lot and I tell them we have more behind the building if they would like to look at them. They agree and instead of walking I offer them a ride and open one of the white 4runners and ask them to jump in. She gets in the passenger side seat and he climbs into the back seat. "Can you make it ok?" she asks him. "Yeah, I'm fine." he says.
Now picture this, we have over 400 cars and trucks on the lot plus there are customers on the lot walking the inventory so I'm very careful driving to the back lot. When we get there I stop the 4runner and before I say "Let's go look at them" the guy goes postal on me. "Don't move the vehicle anymore! I'm getting off here. I don't like to be jerked around with the way you're driving.!" :confuse: he opens the door and his wife is really embarrased and doesn't say a word. He gets off the truck and says "We are walking back, have a nice day!" and they start walking back to their car.
I'm still trying to figure out what I said or did to piss him off. I'm thinking, "You just had surgery on your arm yesterday, you're not taking your pain pills, and you're out here in 95 degree weather plus on the black top looking at cars?" :confuse: I did ask him before if he was taking pain pills and he told me he was prescribed vicodin but wasn't taking any. He was a big Macho man so no pain killers need. So anyway, I vented with one of my colleagues and went back to work.
:shades:
Knowing Chrysler products of that era, it was probably a short in the electrical system.
My 69 Plymouth had a similar warning system in it's later years. On hard acceleration the engine would rear up and bang on the hood while pulling the hose off the power steering pump. The mechanics said it was a broken motor mount but I knew it was just my old Plymouth telling me to slow down.
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
They don't even have to be close to 10K, just suspicious. A group of local brothers were sent to the slammer for moving several millions back and forth between their gas stations in amounts around $5-6K.
Still, the passive-aggressive side of me wonders what would happen if I moved 10K of my money back and forth between my accounts numerous times just to cheese off the feds.
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
I would have kindly explained that we didn't have what he was looking for and taken his info in case something came in. Depending on my mood, I would have done this before or after I got done jumping up and down on his chest.
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
Ah...good. I was worried I was going to be on the blacklist of one of the best FI guys around.
Not sure what they mean about being flagged but any transfer of funds 10 grand or over has to be reported to the IRS (This includes mortgage payments but who has $10K mortgage payments?).
Also repeated transfers between the same two accounts over a short period of time that meet or exceed 10 grand need to be reported.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2013 LX 570 2016 LS 460
Mackabee, you are dating your self with that term, thats so 70's.
The new term is you have gone "scholastic" with regard to all the school shootings/ planned school shootings and just general school violence. Just last week it was in the news a kid ordered triple 13 fertilizer off the internet to make a bomb to blow up his school. Lucky for the students the kids mom intercepted the fertilizer and turned her own son in before he could do the crime.
To keep it on car topic so many salesmen from the 70's worn plaid polyster suits with red ties.
Bob
But I have to give you props for a "good shot"
Just the opposite, the props go to you for doing what you said you'd do. Stay with it...you won't be sorry.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
Darn, you’re good officer. I didn’t think you’d find me this quick. I guess I was above the radar once too often. Glad to see there is still a pulse.
As far as the Nash cruiser, no, that was even before my time, my first was a 65 Biscayne 4 dr with a 396, this was in 1965 when I started.
My Father had a 65’ Impala, 4 dr. hardtop with the 327. He wasn’t used to that kind of power; said he had to try to hold it down. Sometimes he just didn’t try very hard. I remember one time my Mother said, “He thinks he’s 20 years old again. We should never have gotten rid of that station wagon”. I don’t think that comment bothered him given the smile he had on his face when she said it.
FWIW, 1965 was the year I started with the company I stayed with until I retired. That was a very good year.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
Is there someone here who knows where these are pictured on the web? Gotta be a site.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
The next time you and Richard get together and talk about your pickings, since he had so much peach fuzz on himself after all the peach picking he did, ask him if he remembers who it was that first discovered fuzz on peaches and don't let him duck out of this.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
Well...if you can believe what 'isell' says, you can go to bathtubs.com. :shades:
And to reiterate, yes, the EARLY episodes (around 52'/53') had Nash's. Not Buicks.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
Yeah, Highway Patrol had mostly mid-50s Buicks.
I seem to remember some Oldsmobiles too.
AutoWeek had an article on the HP cars, but it was maybe a dozen years ago.
2001 Prelude Type SH, 2022 Highlander XLE AWD, 2025 Camry SE AWD
Centurys were very fast cars. They were basically Specials with the Roadmaster engine.
Last night, I just happened to see the most beautiful one I have ever seen. Restored to better than new condition. A 55 Century hardtop, black and white.
That market segment just went slowly away.
You are about due for a timing belt. Be sure to have it done.
Other than that that that car will last you many more miles.
I did learn something though. Seems the Controur has ABS brakes, and I didn't even realize it!
I know I am doing this backwards, but I am taking it to my indy guy this week for a good once over. Had to decide quick to buy it on my own analysis, and I don't really trust that completely anymore. Don't think he will find any nasty surprises, but I just want to make sure!
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
I had the timing belt service (along with everything else that goes with it) done around 75K miles. I'm fanatical about preventitave maintenance. I've only used synthetic oil. The engine is so clean. When I had the valve cover gasket replaced a few years ago, the mechanic who worked on my car told me it was so clean underneath that he could take it off and serve Thanksgiving dinner on it!
2001 Prelude Type SH, 2022 Highlander XLE AWD, 2025 Camry SE AWD
LOL We have to make you stop posting three replies in a row. You had me laughing so hard that I now have salsa con queso and Tostitos all over my monitor. :surprise:
2025 Forester Limited, 2024 Subaru Legacy Sport
Hey! I like dating myself. I'm good looking, don't ask for much, and I respect myself in the morning!
I could have used "ballistic" instead but thought "postal" would come across a lot better.
In other news, a young couple I spoke with on Friday stopped by the store today although I was not working. One of my colleagues called me and gave me their cell phone as the husband was a bit skeptical and didn't want to provide any info. Unlike the wife who was very charming and their cute little four year old daughter who by the time they left on friday she thought I was her grandpa. I finally got some words out of him and he told me he was looking for an xB, first generation pre-owned. With the current state of affairs with our gas crisis no one is trading those puppies in due to the great mileage they get. So I told them we didn't have any on the lot and also looked up our website to see if any of our other stores had any but no luck. So I thanked them and gave them my card in case they decided to come back. The guy had a self defeating attitude, he kept telling me even if I found one I couldn't match his price. So right before they left I asked him what his budget or price range was. "8k." he replied. I told him he was right. The last xB we had that was around that price was one of the first ones and it had just about 100k miles on her.
So to make a long story longer, I called them back and he picks up the phone and pretends not to know me. "You were just at the store and my colleague showed you a car and he called me to let me know. He told me you told him to let me know you are
are still looking for an 8k xB. I'll let you know if we get one in.:" I told him. "Keep an eye out for a Matrix, Vibe, and xB" he tells me. I ask him for his last name and he says: "What do you need that for?" I reply: "So I can keep you on my data base and when a car that you're interested in comes in I can give you a call. The data base will remind me to stay in touch so that I don't forget what car you're looking for." He still doesn't give me his last name but at least I got the first name and a phone number. We'll see if the mythical 8k Matrix, Vibe, or xB suddenly appears on our lot.
Mack
Mack
DC rewards
and Buick
Cool site:http://www.highwaypatroltv.com/photos.shtml
The mid-60's full size Chevies were real work horses, just kept running even when knocked around. An amusing fact to me is when I started, the old-timers told me that every police cruiser no matter the make was stick shift (three on the tree) until about 1956. I could just imagine shifting and clutching in city traffic for 8 straight hours in heavy city traffic every day.
Those old-timers must have had left legs about as big as a tree trunk.
Do you recall in 1957 Ford Motors came out with the 1957 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser as a civilian vehicle as a direct take-off of the Highway Patrols using the big Mercs on the freeway, these things really ate up the high-speed roads.
Thanks buddy!
GP
Where is the magnetic field? STation 51? :P
GP
Thanks big guy!
GP
I would have to diagree with that being so 70's... I would say more the 90's
GP
Richard
I was counting on you for that answer, since you were a young man by that time.
Richard