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Old 10-09-2017, 10:10 AM
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I like the Rolls/Mercedes story. Mine is Porsche. I tried to buy a Porsche 911 when
I got tenure. I visited the dealer and loooked and looked at it. They were uninterested.
I asked if I could sit in it to check the driving position. NO!! "You can drive it when you
buy it". No, I said, I don't need to drive it, just check the sitting position. "NO!"

So I left and came back a few hours later with a certified check to them for the
sticker price plus tax. I showed it to them and they STILL said "NO". Amazing!
So I bought a Corvette. They had let one of my students drive me around in it ...
I demurred as it had been a few years since I drove a stick shift. But ... this was
a dealer in St. Louis, across the street from the then-factory. Our local dealer had
acted very snooty too, but would have sold me an automatic, just not a stick shift.

I sold the vette 12 years later and paid for a month long vacation in Papua New
Guinea with the proceeds (sold privately to a porn dealer!)
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