1955 Chrysler, 2-door Hardtop Parts Car For Sale

[Jolly_John]

Hi, Gang. I'm winding down some of my 1955 Chrysler things, and have a '55 Chrysler Windsor, 2-door Hardtop (mid-year edition) parts car for sale. Has all gauges, switches, interior, good hardtop doors and rear quarter windows, back glass, hood and trunk. Some rust in the fenders and rear quarters. No bumpers, engine or transmission, and missing some exterior trim. Has been off the road for 30 years, but has been sitting outside. All glass is intact. Car does roll, but keep in mind it is a parts car or rod project, probably not a candidate for 100% restoration. Just $500. Located in central Wisconsin. John Koutre, Plover, Wisconsin. 715-341-6188. email: drjjkoot@g2a.net

[Jolly_John]

Hi, everybody. I thought you'd be interested to know that since I placed this ad on the board just a few days ago, I've received no less than twelve (12) scam replies direct to my email address shown. All requested my lowest price, indicated they were ready to buy now, and would send a cashier's check and a car hauler (the scam many of us have heard about, where the hauler needs cash back because the check was accidentally made out for too much. It always turns out that the cashier's check is a fake....and you've given the hauler your car and change [your real money] back). All these contacts were obviously from overseas, with very stilted English. Just thought all of this was interesting over a $500 parts car.

AND YES, the '55 Chrysler is still available to any "real" buyer out there! Best to all, John in Wisconsin

[Peter J.Heizmann]

Hi, John...

Thank you for your initiative and concern for others with this "heads up".

Regards,

Peter J. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Steve Moskowitz]

This has become one of the biggest scams on all internet sites. I field several calls from "little old ladies" each month in regards to this. It scares me that some person without the means to protect themselves would get caught up in this. Between this scam and the millions in Nigeria or South Africa they want us to have, too much of each day is taken up! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

[RVAnderson]

You said it. Every time I post an online ad, I get at least one of these attempted thefts in response. They usually: a. write very poor English; b. have no idea of what I'm actually selling; c. also have no idea how well-known these scams have become. However, some of them must be paying off somehow or they wouldn't keep coming.

[Matt Harwood]

I still have a really nice forgery of a $14,000 Wachovia Bank cashier's check one of these dopes made out and sent to me for my '97 Miata. Fortunately, the scammer was kind enough to put the bank's real phone number on his fake check and I was able to verify the check immediately. I played with him for a while until he ultimately threatened to sue me for not giving him the car: after all he'd given me a <span style="font-style: italic">cashier's check</span>. I told him he should go ahead and do that, but, of course, nothing ever happened. I was tempted to tell him to come get the car and have a rusted out hulk waiting for his "shipping company." He'd have to pay to ship said junk to wherever he was--probably overseas.

There was a delicious version of this recently where a similar scammer tried to acquire a laptop computer on Ebay and tried to pull the same stuff. The "victim" figured it out and instead sent a 3-ring notebook with a bunch of old keyboard keys glued to it and an old Excel book inside to make it heavy. Best of all, he sent it freight collect with a declared value of $2000, so the scammer (in England, of course) had to pay import duties on $2000 worth of cardboard and plastic. Imagine his surprise when he opened the box. Nice!

Here's a link to the p-p-p-powerbook payback. A long read but a great sting that couldn't have happened to a nicer guy...

I'm surprised that more people don't wait for checks to clear before sending their cars off with unknown people. These scams are so prevalent that there must be an awful lot of really, really stupid people out there falling for these scams all the time...

[Pontiac59]

One thing I'd suggest in addition to making sure all funds have cleared, is not only calling a bank to verify, but using the internet (sites like switchboard.com are handy for this) to look up the bank and verify the phone number, or checking it out through a different branch of the same bank.