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Re: [Mgs] Spurned an offer

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Subject: Re: [Mgs] Spurned an offer
From: Max Heim <mvheim@sonic.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:26:02 -0700
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Maybe I should have included a little context.

Back when my MG actually looked nice, yeah, I was flattered when people
wanted to buy it. Probably some of them were sincere. But I really suspect
they would have backed off after closer inspection.

But now that it's in primer (mostly), with rust bubbles and a bashed-up
front end, I figure that any unsolicited offers coming from persons that
don't even know what kind of car it is are not to be taken seriously.


--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires



on 3/16/13 5:48 PM, melfrankus@carolina.rr.com at melfrankus@carolina.rr.com
wrote:

> I am appreciative when I drive my MG and someone not only says "nice car,
> yada, yada, yada" but also inquires about "buying"  I've had this one around
> 30 years but when I sell it I don't care what they change, modify or alter.
> And if it stopped running and broke down, unlike Paul, cash would be king.
> Fortunately, mine does not break down (yet) Mel
> -
> --- Paul Root <ptrmgb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I had a guy stop behind me when I had broken down. I thought to help. He
>> was just fishing to buy the car from a frustrated owner. I told him that
>> everything is for sale, but the buyer might not like the price. That got
>> him to leave.
>> 
>> It was just a frayed wire in the dizzy. My son found it. We were back on
>> the road in no time after the guy left and we could concentrate on the car.
>>  On Mar 16, 2013 6:13 PM, "Max Heim" <mvheim@sonic.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Driving through Hayward today, a Buick full of people pulls up beside my
>> MGB. I could see they were pointing, then a guy leans out the back window
>> and asks "Hey, you wanna sell your car?"
>> 
>> I shook my head, and mumbled "No, thanks, my project, you know..."
>> 
>> But afterward, I was thinking, if someone really wants to give me money for
>> it, I should take it. But then I thought, no, I couldn't in conscience sell
>> it to someone that would put 20-inch rims on it.
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Max Heim
>> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>> If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
>> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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