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Anyone remember back to the days when the new cars had a 2 year/24000 mile guarantee on them?.
Went to college with rich kid whose dad was the only MD in a small Calif town, and he came with a brand new silver 66 Pontiac GTO 4- speed.
Seems the trick was to run the new cars to 23,500 miles and then "accidently":grin: miss a shift and dump the motor, or otherwise screw up the valve train, and get GM, Ford or Mopar to spring for a new engine,
thus "starting out with a 2 year old car but with a new engine.
Worked fine for a while, till the mfrs finally got wise and starting REBUILDING the existing motors.
Put an end to "that" scam?
(I had a '64 Chevelle back then, ah, the sixties, I was more of a would be gearhead than an anti-Vietnam war protester in those days..) Cars of the sixties, never a chance to buy them new again. Some guy on ebay has his hands on a verified '68 Cougar with 11,000 actual miles on the clock, he tried in December and again last month to pimp it on ebay, it is gold with a black vinyl roof, (Ever notice how MANY autos back in the 60's had gold bodies with black vinyl roofs?) this was nothing special like an XR7G, Dan Gurney, 390GT, etc., but interest kind of petered out at about $17,000, IT NEVER MADE RESERVE. Stay tuned. He'll be back.
Anyone remember back to the days when the new cars had a 2 year/24000 mile guarantee on them?.
Went to college with rich kid whose dad was the only MD in a small Calif town, and he came with a brand new silver 66 Pontiac GTO 4- speed.
Seems the trick was to run the new cars to 23,500 miles and then "accidently":grin: miss a shift and dump the motor, or otherwise screw up the valve train, and get GM, Ford or Mopar to spring for a new engine,
thus "starting out with a 2 year old car but with a new engine.
Worked fine for a while, till the mfrs finally got wise and starting REBUILDING the existing motors.
Put an end to "that" scam?
(I had a '64 Chevelle back then, ah, the sixties, I was more of a would be gearhead than an anti-Vietnam war protester in those days..) Cars of the sixties, never a chance to buy them new again. Some guy on ebay has his hands on a verified '68 Cougar with 11,000 actual miles on the clock, he tried in December and again last month to pimp it on ebay, it is gold with a black vinyl roof, (Ever notice how MANY autos back in the 60's had gold bodies with black vinyl roofs?) this was nothing special like an XR7G, Dan Gurney, 390GT, etc., but interest kind of petered out at about $17,000, IT NEVER MADE RESERVE. Stay tuned. He'll be back.
