Monday 16 April 2012

MrGrumpy meets MrArfurDaly

MrGrumpy search for a vehicle continues, he made a short list of car dealers to look at during his lunch break.

Cars which MrGrumpy was going to look at included :
  • Dodge RAM 1500 x2
  • Corvette 
  • Mustang x 2
  • Camero 
  • Mitsubishi Eclipse 
So off drove MrGumpy in is rental Toymota Armchair, arriving at the first dealer and looking around he notice nobody came to see what he was looking for, "typical" he thought, when you are interested in look they don't bother you, when you just looking they pounce quicker than a starving lioness on a prime rib.

Anyway, he looked at the Mustang, uhm V6, cloth, not rag top, dent in read quarter, but a nice Blue metallic.
Next to that was the Mitsubishi, nice rag top, clean leather, but a tad too expensive.
On to the Camero, nice looking, bit shabby in places, again too expensive, he did not shout or think "must have".

Away to the next dealer, just a couple of blocks down El Camino Real, the Toymota dealership. MrGrumpy parks and starts looking for the Dodge Rams they had on their web-side. This time the salesman pounce very quickly, MrChubbySalesDude introduced himself and asked if MrGrumpy was from Australia or New Zealand, well it had to happen... "No, England" MrGrumpy replied and then went on to explain what he was looking for.
Over to the Dog RAM's no that is not a misspelling, they were quite low miles, < 130K but the "black" one was a matt gray and the red one hand almost no clear-coat left on the root at all. Generally they looked OK for 50ft, but close up they were quite rough, all cloth seat, no power anything. Nothing really to get excited about, so MrGrumpy said he would be looking around this week and go for test drives at the weekend.
The next and last dealer was a little drive away, MrGrumpy loaded up the "New" Gremlin SatNav and off he went, a couple of messed up exits off the freeway later (grumble, grumble, US CrapNavs all seem the same, at least this one was better then the other CrapNav) he arrives at a very overcrowded car lot.

Here MrGrumpy met MrArfurDaly,  the spelling is not an error, he was the American/Italian/Mafia cousin of MrArthurDaily. All the cars were nose to tail, in fact they were touching, there were about 80 cars in the space for less than 40. "Some interesting motors" MrGrumpy thought, he looked at a corvette, too unloved, pretty tatty, then he saw a white Jaaaaag, looked nice from a distance but the white respray was not the best. After some more discussions about how England is not Australia they then discussed his requirements, he was shown a V6 Mustang, with 200+K miles (only 70K on the current engine),  then over to a red V8 Mustang, leather inside, looked tatty, but fired up and sounded crisp, it had 180K miles, but MrGrumpy decided it was worth taking for a test drive. 
MrArfurDaly got the Mustang out, it was one of the very few which did not need a rubic cube master to get out. Off MrGrumpy drove, his first experience of a V8 Mustang, uhm, not the best of experiences, the steering was heavy, the brakes were wooden, and not a lot of grunt for a V8 4.7ltr, a few of the ponies seem to have left the stable on this one... not to mention the AirCon was about as effective as an ice cube in a furnace (it was a hot day, 72f at least),  MrGrumpy returned the car to MrAfurDaly, who said he would fix the AirCon and lower the price but $500 as I did not want the 0% finance he could offer. 
MrGrumpy told him, he had several other vehicles to look at and would be making decisions toward the weekend.

MrGrumpy returned to the office quite disappointed at the quality of what he had seen, his search would continue...

Coming Soon, watch for the update on MrGrumpy and the Green Dodge Durango...

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