Well I didn't get any monetary value out of it but we sure did get alot of laughs. Like I said before the builder called me up and asked if I would get rid of it and they are a good customer so no problem I'll take care of it.
So we needed someone to come and get the truck pretty quickly, so we called a couple of salvage guys but with the tires and tank still on it and the motor and trans gone, there was not much there to really fool with. (I moved my hoe out while the trucks fate was still in limbo, too much trouble to mob it back). So we had to resort to ahem......the the "how much will you give me for a burnt truck with no title" wrecker guy.
I just need someone to come and get the truck. Turns out it's was a little harder than I thought until "Cooter" came to mind and this is the point that we decided to have some fun.. (His name has been changed in this story to protect the "innocent"
:bash). A little background on Cooter - he's the type guy that would spend thousands of dollars and many hours putting a lift kit with 54" tires on an '85 TransAm
, but he does have a roll back.:cool2
So we call Cooter up and begin to give him a story about this "special truck". When the story was finally spun, the truck was a collectors issue - 1 of 300 ever made and was once Bobby Allision's personal truck and if he didn't come get it soon, word would be out and Bobby was coming to get it. A little background - Bobby Allison is an old school NASCAR driver, back in the day he drove the Miller High Life car. Pleasant Grove is right next to Hueytown where Bobby Allison and his late son Davey Allison are/were from. Neal Bonnett another old school driver is also from Hueytown. Now back to the story.
We get Cooter pretty excited about this truck and the possibility that he is going to get something really valuable and then not have to pay for it. I negotiated $50 for the old truck, knowing that I would never see it but the price had to be low enough for Cooter to travel all the way across the City to pick it up. Well Cooter came and picked up the truck and cussed from the time he showed up until the truck left on the roll back, he did take the truck since he made the trip and spent all that money on gas. (He probably needed the bed for a Corvette/El Comino conversion
) Needless to say I didn't get my $50, never expected to but I got the truck gone and another happy customer, nonetheless.
Now this may sound like a mean thing to do to Cooter but you don't know Cooter. He's the type guy that if you sell him something you better get cash in hand before he leaves with whatever you sold him. Before I knew that I had the salvage rights to the truck, Cooter kept trying to get the address of the truck so he could "go look at it" but I knew if we told him, he would come snatch it and deny ever taking it. Yes this business sometimes puts you around unscrupulous people.
:cool2