[Healeys] Crandall Hicks
Bob Spidell
bspidell at comcast.net
Fri Aug 3 11:00:49 MDT 2018
Last new car I bought, I had it written in the contract that if they put
any advertising logo/stamp/badge/etc. on the car I'd refuse delivery.
That seemed to have the desired effect.
Bob
On 8/2/2018 8:43 PM, Mike S wrote:
> Right on, Mike. I had the same problem with an '86 Olds I bought in
> Ohio. Fortunately the "logo plate" was only a decal, and removed
> easily (as did the free advertising license plate holders. "I did
> not pay thousands of dollars.............!" On the other hand, they
> were nice folks to deal with, and the car even came with a full tank
> of gas. I drove it for 16 years.
>
> Mike Sinclair
>
> On 8/2/2018 11:58 AM, Michael MacLean wrote:
>> That's the one thing my Dad used to hate about buying a new car in
>> Massachusetts. The dealers would drill holes in your new car to
>> advertise their dealership. I remember when he bought a new
>> Oldsmobile Cutlass F85 convertible in 1965. He specifically told them
>> NOT to drill the trunk lid for their dealer logo. He said, "I am not
>> paying you for your free advertising." The day the car was
>> delivered, right there as big as the nose on your face, was the metal
>> dealer logo on the trunk lid. My Dad blew up. He yelled loud enough
>> that I think they heard him the service department. He told them the
>> deal was off on his factory ordered car. He had told them not to do
>> it, but somehow the message never got to the service department when
>> they were prepping the car. We left the dealership that day without
>> the new car only to return a few days later with the logo removed and
>> the holes filled in and painted over. My Dad signed for the car and
>> took delivery then. Always stuck in my mind and to this day I will
>> remove the paper plates with the dealer info off new cars I buy right
>> at the dealership here in California before I drive the car home
>> telling them, "I did not just pay thousands of dollars to advertise
>> for you for free!" Echoes of my father in my head.
>> Mike MacLean
>>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/healeys/attachments/20180803/a844b6cc/attachment.html>
More information about the Healeys
mailing list