Re: IML: Personal checks (was A car eye by the pizza guy, almost)

[Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>]

thanks for the words of advice.

It took him 6 weeks to pick it up, so I would have
heard by now if it were bad.  

-K

--- Bob Smith <limoguy1950@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kenyon:  I hope you don't get stung on the check. 
> Banks will credit you provisionally but it could
> take as long as 3 weeks for the bank to process the
> check and then dishonor it for lack of payment (it
> gets bounced back)...especially when the guy is from
> Saudi Ariaba and just disappeared on you.  Don't
> spend the money yet.
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> Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I
> recently bought a 1964 LeBaron out of a barn. 
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> Rehabbed it and sold it on Ebay to a guy in Saudi
> Arabia who is here working out of texas buying up
> cars. OK, Fine.
> 
> Mailed me a personal check and it went right
> through,
> so no problem there. The guy up and disappeared on
> me
> after that. The car had already sat in front of my
> house for a month while I worked on it, and wound up
> spending another 50 days waiting for me to threaten
> to
> resell it before he got his butt in gear and had
> someone pick it up. 
> 
> It went yesterday, hallelujah! There are two old
> biddys that live on my court. Nothing, but nothing
> happens here from sunup to 10pm that they don't know
> about, and I'm their main entertainment. 
> Entertainment in your late seventies consists of
> complaining about other people and talking about the
> homeowners association rules. 
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> I'm the best thing that has happened to them in 10
> years, I think.
> 
> So I coincidentally did a major yard clean-up over
> the
> last 3 days, leveled the side yard (for more cars)
> and
> decided that the rock out front with weeds poking
> through it had to go. Sourpuss, one of them,
> actually
> smiled for the first time in memory. Guess she's
> happy for a few days. Wait till I get my next
> project
> car, babe.... 
> 
> Fortunately, there was a side yard just waiting for
> the old rock from the front, so that worked out
> neatly. Busted my butt for several days, and
> yesterday I pulled all three cars out of the carport
> to clean it and left the 1960 out in front, which is
> a
> rolling shell with no doors, hood, or trunk.
> 
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http://imperialclub.com/Yr/1960/Kenyon/images/WetsandingthecarwithEasySand-reg.jpg
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> The 64 that just got picked up, which was where I
> parked the '60 was actually a pretty nice car if you
> don't know what you're looking at:
> 
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http://imperialclub.com/temp/Kenyon/1964%20LeBaron%20For%20sale%20by%20Kenyon%20(Not%20for%20site)/IMG_0140.JPG
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> ANY-way, we ordered pizza, and the guy showed up and
> went nuts. Asked incredulously: "What happened to
> your car? It was so nice just a few days ago!!!"
> 
> I wasn't there, but my girlfriend told him that we
> blow things up for a living, while waving
> non-chalantly in the car's direction. He came over
> and started to scold me for destroying such a nice
> car. I know that I make my errors on my bodywork,
> but
> hey!! I didn't know what he was talking about and
> told him that I was only trying to put it back
> together, not destroy it. He got the weirdest look
> on
> his face and decided to cut and run at that point.
> 
> Hard to tell these old cars apart if you don't have
> "the eye", I guess.
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