[Shotimes] celebrity SHO ownership

[Bob]

An additional data point:
Fifth Gear did a show on buying used/celeb cars and found that the celebrity
factor often didn't carry over to the next buyer after you buy it.  Only for
big names or for customized cars like John Lenon's hand painted Rolls.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Mallinson
> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 1:14 PM
>
> Yea, I agree, if the car is still owned by the original owner, then yes
> it is a one owner car, even if sitting on a dealers lot on consignment,
> or listed by a friend.  That might be the case with this car, but I
> doubt it.  I would ask who the check is made out to.
>
> Again, anytime money changes hands, that is a new owner in my book.
>
> Don Mallinson
>
> Ron Porter wrote:
>
> >You are also assuming that a 'dealer" owns the car. In looking
> at that Ebay
> >listing, I see no such thing. In fact, it is a zero-feedback
> seller, with no
> >other items.
> >
> >http://tinyurl.com/96hol
> >
> >I will bet $$$ that the seller is a friend/relative/business or personal
> >acquaintance of Paul Kantner who probably doesn't want to deal with the
> >public in selling the car.
> >
> >If you were to sell a car for someone n your family, I would hardly think
> >that you would call yourself an "owner" of it.
> >
> >That comes down to our definitions of "owner". If you morally
> feel that $$$
> >changing hands is an "owner", that's fine. I go with the title. Now, the
> >dealer "should" (at MI and other states I've been in) do a
> dealer assignment
> >of the title so the next owner gets the title from the state. If
> they don't,
> >it becomes a direct transfer from the first to the second owner.
> >
> >
> >Ron Porter
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