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How many "If you want to sell your car..." notes have you gotten?

Old Apr 5, 2005 | 11:50 AM
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How many "If you want to sell your car..." notes have you gotten?

I've gotten two "If you want to sell your rx-7 please call..." notes left on my car...over the 8 or os years I've owned it....and it currently looks like crap (paint in June).

Just wondering if y'all get similar notes from time to time.

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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 01:13 PM
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I've gotten some of those. But I'm also guilty of leaving notes on clean low miles 7's myself. One interesting note I got was them explaining how they used to have one, loved it and it got stolen and been sad ever since.
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 01:17 PM
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none but I've only owned it three days. I used have a Triumph Spitfire that everyone wanted to buy. Its was one the cheapest cars I ever bought too - $1400Cdn.
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 02:33 PM
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Never had a note yet but i just got the car a few days ago, heh.
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 03:22 PM
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ive had 2 after driving it for 1 year... Turns alot of heads too
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 03:29 PM
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I bought my car from a freinds impound lot, and had to wait 5 weeks for the paperwork to return, so I could tag the car. During this time, I showed a few people a couple of pics I had taken of the car. Most often heard comment was, "Want your money back?"
Tagged it 3 weeks ago, and I still have people ask me that same question.
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 03:44 PM
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I had an offer on my MG Midget a day or two after I got it.
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 03:47 PM
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With Pamela I used to get one or two per month
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 03:54 PM
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REPU has gotten 2 since she was painted in Feb 04. And lots of people walking up and talking to me in the parking lot
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 03:57 PM
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my 7 looks like crap, ( not including the engine bay ) so none. i use to get them all the time on my 65 scout.
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 04:00 PM
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not notes on the car, but ive had people pull up and offer to buy it

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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 04:03 PM
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Do you people live in highly populated areas? Damn where I live it's a small city and I doubt i'd get people coming up to me like that hah.
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 04:41 PM
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The mechanic who rebuilt my carb when I turned 16 offered to buy mine since he didn't want such a beauty in the hands of a 16 year old, but I haven't had any offers in the past 5 years. There is a T2 a few blocks from my appartment that someone wrote on in a grease pen. On the window it says "Sell me your car" and has some guys phone number on it. The car has litterally been sitting in the same spot for a year without moving. I don't know why the guy doesn't just sell it. I did notice that he renewed his tags, however.
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 04:45 PM
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I had some guy at a gas station come up to me and asked if i would sell it, he offered me 10,000 and I said no. Most people just come up to the car and drull ....lol

I do leave a www.rx7club.com card on the windows of any 7's I see

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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 05:09 PM
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I have only gotten Two Note's actually, But One was from a couple of little Chester's, Summa Time Girls'

Though I have had at least three People ask if I would sell!!!

One Guy jump out at a Red Light and ask me to Pull Over. Said he sold his and has been regreting It eversince.


Summer time Girls..........................
Summa get you 10...............
and Summa get U 15.................... years in the Slamma that is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 05:11 PM
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Close to 8 years owning a first gen. and never a note. I seem to always get that one salesman at Mazda thinking you are pulling up with a trade in. I found two words to shake a salesman, "parts department".
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 05:54 PM
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Not even a week after i bought mine there was a note on it....this guy wanted it for $500
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 08:48 PM
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Cute Story

I had a note put on my car not long after I bought it. I didn't respond. A few weeks later the guy at the local servo told me he had put this note on the car and had since bought a S1, 79 model.
To cut a long story short , that was almost 4 years ago. He now rents one of the rooms in my house and I count him as a dear friend,

Warm & Fuzzy eh!! Sue

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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 10:12 PM
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no notes yet... but it seems like everytime i stop at a gas station or something i allways get "hey thats a nice car man!" then thay want to buy it..
or "hey i had one of those, and i wish i never would have sold it"
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 10:25 PM
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that's how i bought my last two rx7's, with a note under the windshield, no-one has left me one although alot of people tell stories about how they used to have one. and if I drive one of my 7evens to work (advance auto parts) alot of people ask if I would sell it, well i just tell them it's not ready yet, but in reality if I prepare these cars to sell it is so hard for me to let them go.
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 11:55 PM
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My garbage man asked If I was interested in selling mine a few days ago.
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Old Apr 6, 2005 | 12:03 AM
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I had one note when my car was gutted out ... some carpenter saw it apprently and left it on there ... he said he used to have 4 7's at one point and sold them when he got married to afford everything and now he wants one back.
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Old Apr 6, 2005 | 02:00 AM
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Mine's sitting behind my church, near another member's house on this forum...

I was talking to him and he said, Hey, there's this FB parked behind a church near me... I wanna see if I can find the owner of and maybe buy it.

I said, Hey. It is silver with a brown fender and SEVERE toe and camber problems on the front passenger wheel?

He said yeah, I think some old guy owns it and is tired of it...

I said... Umm dude... That's mine.

*sigh*

First money... Then a place to work on it... Now I need a way to move it around and get the engine out.
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Old Apr 6, 2005 | 03:02 AM
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No notes here...everyone in and around the town i live in owns a lifted truck with swampers and CB whips with no CB actually installed.
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Old Apr 6, 2005 | 03:48 AM
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No notes,but allot of offers at red traffic lights..

One guy at a drag meeting said i should make my price,and he`ll take it.I guess i`am to stubborn.I waited 15 years for this baby,so she is staying!

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