[Healeys] Crandall Hicks

[Bob Spidell]

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
>>

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