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Re: Let the Buyer Beware

To: Bill Silvershein <william@mustang.parsippany.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Let the Buyer Beware
From: fred thomas <vafred@erols.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:33:31 -0700
Cc: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>, Scions of Stanpart <triumphs@autox.team.net>, Vintage Triumph Register general list <vtr@autox.team.net>
References: <Pine.WNT.3.95.990518132735.-365985X-100000@win2431.nysed.gov> <9905181359.ZM4436@mustang.parsippany.sgi.com>
Reply-to: fred thomas <vafred@erols.com>
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Now so everyone understands = thats FRED in Mass. not Va. =

Bill Silvershein wrote:
> 
> Greeting all,
> 
>    Just want to let the group know about a seller who is not quite
> honest about what he is selling (The car is touted as a rust free,1973 TR6, ex
> autocross car just north of Boston, BRG with a spartan interior, no top or 
>door
> glass). After traveling the 6 hours one way with my trailer, I find not only a
> beatup car, but one where the dash has been hacked together with a 1969(key
> located in the dash)dash, on a 73 Chassis, with missing rockers( covered over
> poorly by fiberglass matting),a paint job my 7 year old son could have done
> with a paint roller, a roll bar that has not been welded( ok, one small spot
> weld on each mounting pad to hold it in the car) in (was told it had been, and
> passed SCCA tech inspection last year), and an overall seller who just played
> dumb...Well, good thing I did not buy it when it was on ebay, I could have
> truly been scammed out of my money. Since I had not, I am only out my 12
> hours on the road, and about $200 in expenses....Let the buyer beware
> of this car. Tell all your friends to watch out for this car in
> Swampscott, MA and a seller named Fred.........I would hate to have anyone 
>else
> waste their time in the pursuit of a car that is touted as something it is
> not.....
> 
> Yours in ever searching Triumphs,
> 
> Bill S.
> 
> PS: Car is BRG, with no top, nor door glass either... Have seen car
> listed in Hemmings, on the VTR site, and on Ebay...........
> 
> --
> William E. Silvershein                        SGI
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> There can only be one, and here I am..
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