Ok, I thought I would share a little tale about one of our pony car competitors for your entertainment. So, sit back, gather the kids around, lock the doors and turn the lights down low........ok, a little dramatic, but hopefully, after you read this, you will be saying the same thing we all said, "DUMBASS", and getting a good laugh out of it if nothing else.

Our story begins at the largest monthly cruise-in at a local burger/shake joint on a beautiful, although humid as the seventh level of hell, Saturday afternoon. Upon arriving, I find that all of the prime spots around the main parking lot are mostly taken and I didn't feel like wedging my black beauty next to the soccer moms in the mini-vans and dealing with sticky melted ice-cream to wipe off the car later. So, I decide to look for an alternate spot in the high dollar shade district. Typically, this area is already full of our blue oval friends in their Mustangs. I guess they don't want the paint to fade in the sun. LOL Well, I find a nice spot on the end of the line and hope that eventually more Bowties will decide to come join me. Momentarily, several Chevelles and Novas line up next to me. As I am talking to multiple people, I don't really notice who is parked down the line. A friend comes up and asks, "hey, did you see that? I didn't think they were available yet." I turn and look. All I see are several late model Mustangs. Then he points out the new, and I mean NEW, Shelby GT500. See, and you thought I was never going to get to the real story didn't you?

Anyway, I give it a look from a distance and could tell that this was one of the most arrogant people I had seen in a long time with a new car. It was a nice car, and I was obviously curious on the price as I have already placed a deposit on a 2009 Camaro, I am hopeful that it will be close to this car in power, etc. Back to our story. I patiently wait for our blue oval buddy to take a walk around so that I can check out his car and the window sticker he so graciously left on the window for all to see. Upon listening to his discussions with other Stang enthusiasts, I learn that the car is only a couple of hours from the lot with 30 miles on it and everything on the interior is still covered in plastic. Including the steering wheel. A 67 Shelby parks next to him and they immediately strike up a conversation. 67 guy asks him where he got it. He tells him the dealer and the guy balks a little. Then he says, what number were you on the list? List, what list our new car guys throws back at him. I wasn't on any list. I was the first guy there and I got it. 67 guy says, no wait, I have 3 buddies that all went down there and got on the list to be contacted when they could get their cars. Do you work for the dealer or is this your car 67 hurls back. This is my car. I bought it. Then discussions start about why there isn't a tag on it. New guy said they didn't put a plate on it because he trailered it from the dealer. Which is funny that he had been trying to figure some way to mount it the whole time I had been parked near him. 67 guy is still confused on why his buddies were not called. Which as someone on a list for my next new car, I start thinking, damn, what if they don't call me like they said so that I can go in to spec out my options. But, that's something for another thread. 67 guy is walking around admiring the NEW, plastic-wrapped blue with white striped beauty when he spots the sticker. And then he asks the question, "where's the secondary sticker?" New guy pauses before he says anything. Base sticker was $43,000. More questions come about the final price and it's finally announced to several of us simultaneously. "Sticker plus 20 for FMV (fair market value)". That's right. That new car that should have only cost $43K......this DUMBASS spent $63K on. But, if he's happy, I'm happy for him. But you know the funniest thing about all of it? While we were all standing there, damned if his exact twin, I mean in every way, didn't drive up and park across the aisle from him. Several of the group made there way over to see what this guy might add to our discussion. Someone asked him about where he got his and what he paid.......... "Sticker.....Why would you pay more than that? That would be stupid.

So boys and girls, the moral to this overly long, boring, wasted space on this site is FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS BUY OVERPRICED CARS.

Keep this in mind when you get ready to venture out into the vast array of Chevrolet dealerships to start making plans to get your new 2009 Camaros. I know I am glad to have a dealership that one of the first things they told me was that there would be no mark-up over sticker. There are good dealers out there.

FWIW, this is the same dealer that was adding $150K over sticker for the (2) GTs they got.

 

lol!

Good read. Owned, for sure!

 

Well as I see it he got what he deserved. But better yet he got Owned in front of other people.

Bet he felt like a fool for paying 20K over MSRP. I'm hope to get my Camaro under MSRP. State Fleet Price from whatever dealer has the State Contract that year.

 

And I thought I got "hosed" on my '02 because I paid sticker price! Don't know if we can expect much better than paying sticker for the '09 either, but $20g's more!!! Dude had SUCKER written ALL OVER his face!!

 

I thought it was going to end with this isn't really my car. My daddy owns a dealership. But it was great.

 

we had one of the car salesmen from the local caddy dealership bring in a nice new cts that had the side plastered. we asked him what happened. he wouldn't respond except to only ask how much to fix it. when our estimating system said it had $11,500 worth of damage, (wish i had a camera) the look on his face said it all this guy apparently took the car on an "errand" but was in fact joyriding around in it.

don't know what happened to the salesman, but we still have the car sitting here waiting on the parts to fix it (the local caddy dealership closed its body shop a year ago), so moral of the story, bad things can and most likely will go wrong on an unauthorized test drive

 

in a word... ouch. can't believe some people are that stupid.