v10enomous
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On November 30th I called on a 2000 GTS ACR on Ebay and reached an agreement pending an independant inspection. I Paypal'd $500 to Ralph Beck of Forest VA who apparently owns 21st Century Insurance Company to which the car is titled.
Dodge : Viper:eBay Motors (item 190351700157 end time Nov-30-09 17:34:28 PST)
I made an appointment for the car to be inspected at the local Dodge dealer for 9:00 am the following Monday. Monday comes and he calls me to tell me that they had black ice and he wanted to have his wife bring the car at 11:00 instead. I said "are you sure she can get this done?... maybe we should wait for another day" No problem he says... 2:00 pm comes and I hear nothing so I call him and he tells me that she ran off the road while he was on the phone with her and that tghe car got scraped under the bumper and that paint got chipped in all 4 wheel wells from the salt and gravel on the road.
He says it's only minor and has a great local guy that will touch it up by the end of the week. I said maybe this just wasn't meant to be and asked for my deposit back. He said that he would refund my deposit after he relists and sells the car... So I think about it and figure I should still have it looked at after the paint work.
His description is that this is a pefect 8,400 mile car that was salvaged for a minor bumper hood incident for which he sent me the pics. The owner at the time wouldn't accept a repaired car so the ins company was forced to toatal it.
So at this point one of the Forum members here goes to look at it for me before it goes for the paintwork but somehow the keys were not at house and neither was his wife who then magically appeared... car is tightly between his Diablo and Hummer and really couldn't be evaluated...
So now I wait until the paintwork is done and I find a local garage that agrees to do the inspection because now the Dodge dealer is too far away.
So anyway the local garage guy goes over the car for an hour and a half and finds a multitude of problems and says the front frame looks like it may be off... The AC sprayed and doesn't work, the rear axle has play, marker and fog lights out, front tires appear to be rubbing the frame and suspension components, bad radiator hose, hood misaligned, oil 2 quarts down, coolant strength right at 32...etc... I started to get tired of hearing it all.. Oh yeah..car was never raced and just had the VIR sticker in the rear window... No valid VA inspection sticker...
So I call him and tell him to refund my money and he insists that he is entitled to hold my deposit until he sells the car...because he was doing me a favor. He has not responded to 3 reminders on the paypal request for money so far since Friday...
Car is a Hennessy poser btw... for which he couldn't confirm any upgrades except the wheels..
Do not buy this car...
Dodge : Viper:eBay Motors (item 190351700157 end time Nov-30-09 17:34:28 PST)
I made an appointment for the car to be inspected at the local Dodge dealer for 9:00 am the following Monday. Monday comes and he calls me to tell me that they had black ice and he wanted to have his wife bring the car at 11:00 instead. I said "are you sure she can get this done?... maybe we should wait for another day" No problem he says... 2:00 pm comes and I hear nothing so I call him and he tells me that she ran off the road while he was on the phone with her and that tghe car got scraped under the bumper and that paint got chipped in all 4 wheel wells from the salt and gravel on the road.
He says it's only minor and has a great local guy that will touch it up by the end of the week. I said maybe this just wasn't meant to be and asked for my deposit back. He said that he would refund my deposit after he relists and sells the car... So I think about it and figure I should still have it looked at after the paint work.
His description is that this is a pefect 8,400 mile car that was salvaged for a minor bumper hood incident for which he sent me the pics. The owner at the time wouldn't accept a repaired car so the ins company was forced to toatal it.
So at this point one of the Forum members here goes to look at it for me before it goes for the paintwork but somehow the keys were not at house and neither was his wife who then magically appeared... car is tightly between his Diablo and Hummer and really couldn't be evaluated...
So now I wait until the paintwork is done and I find a local garage that agrees to do the inspection because now the Dodge dealer is too far away.
So anyway the local garage guy goes over the car for an hour and a half and finds a multitude of problems and says the front frame looks like it may be off... The AC sprayed and doesn't work, the rear axle has play, marker and fog lights out, front tires appear to be rubbing the frame and suspension components, bad radiator hose, hood misaligned, oil 2 quarts down, coolant strength right at 32...etc... I started to get tired of hearing it all.. Oh yeah..car was never raced and just had the VIR sticker in the rear window... No valid VA inspection sticker...
So I call him and tell him to refund my money and he insists that he is entitled to hold my deposit until he sells the car...because he was doing me a favor. He has not responded to 3 reminders on the paypal request for money so far since Friday...
Car is a Hennessy poser btw... for which he couldn't confirm any upgrades except the wheels..
Do not buy this car...
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