Window of opportunity-closing slowly, I need your help

[mrmustang]

Where I'm coming from:

So some of you know Roger (aka: Professor Cranky) from the numerous HP driving events he has attended.....What some of you might not know is that his awesome race modified Contemporary Cobra has just been put on the market...Sure it's rough around the edges and has been tracked for a large majority of it's life, but where else can you get a car with such history....affectionately known in our little circle of track warriors as "The Track Turd" and it fits as it is not a show car, at one time it was, but not any longer.

Where I'm going with this:

Most of you have now read this far and thought I'm making a sales pitch for Roger's car, well, yes and no, in this case my window of opportunity to purchase this car hinges on my selling my unpainted and fully streetable (titled no less) FFR MK II. Have had a few bites, but only one person to actually come and see it (who's wife shot him down as he already has some rather large project cars as yet unfinished).....Is it the shake up of the stock market? Is it the world economy? Is it that fact it is not already painted blue with white stripes :lol: ?

What I am asking for from the cobra community:

As we all know, it's that 6th degree of separation thing that I'm looking at. Put the word out to friends who are looking, put the word out on other forums, put the word out to your local clubs that my fully sorted car is up for sale at a price "too good to be true"......Help me save Rogers car from being taken back to 100% street trim by someone who only wants to look the part....Help me sell mine so I can buy his track car and give it the continued thrashing it deserves before it's too late and ends up like Don D's old fire breathing 427 powered track car (someones garage trophy, sitting collecting dust in the corner of a garage, never to see the pavement of a track ever again).............Funds are tight, so I cannot promise you a finders fee, but I can promise to continue to help out whenever I can for those that I come across needing it.............


That is it, thanks in advance.....


Yours in racing Fords,



Bill S.

Disclaimer: No coffee was consumed before or during this exercise in writing my early Sunday morning plea for help.

[trularin]

Recommendation:

Post a nice picture of your car.

Might want to add specs and data that gives your sales force an edge in helping sell your car.

Good luck Bill.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by mrmustang

Funds are tight, so I cannot promise you a finders fee,

well, then there's no point in spreading the word.

Originally Posted by mrmustang

but I can promise to continue to help out whenever I can for those that I come across needing it.............

I charge a fee as well, everytime I help out people whether they are my friends or not. Nothing wrong with that.

[John McMahon]

Originally Posted by trularin

Recommendation:

Post a nice picture of your car.

Might want to add specs and data that gives your sales force an edge in helping sell your car.

Good luck Bill.

That's been done already...very nice car for the money!



http://www.clubcobra.com/classifieds...p?product=1516

http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91342


Good Luck Bill, I'll keep my eyes and ears open for a buyer and will try to keep Mr. Davis from selling his car to anyone else!

[Cashburn]

you own a paintshop... Advertise a pick your color price?

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by Anthony

well, then there's no point in spreading the word.

You should always, always compensate people for their work, and compensate them well for good work. It's the American way, and it's what built this country.

[mrmustang]

Originally Posted by Anthony

well, then there's no point in spreading the word.



I charge a fee as well, everytime I help out people whether they are my friends or not. Nothing wrong with that.

Without getting into a pissing match, that is the difference between you and I, when a friend asks for my assistance, I don't ask "what is in it for me". If I have the time and the energy, I just do it.


Bill S.

[mrmustang]

Originally Posted by Cashburn

you own a paintshop... Advertise a pick your color price?

I don't have time to paint it (not production line friendly with me putting out 18-28 cars a week) or I would have already shot it Viper Blue with white stripes and sold it on Ebay


Bill S.



PS: Time to take the boy out for another driving lesson will check back later.

PSS: Pics are in the link in my sig along with all the details.

[289ACE]

I have to say I am bit surprised by the response to the lack of finders fee. For the most part I thought people on this forum were fellow enthusiats that were here to help each other. I guess we should all have paypal accounts to compensate others when they help us with a question? If charging a fee works for you, then by all means do it, but for me I'll continue to do freebies when and where I can. I believe in trying to keep the Karma good and I believe that has led to some of the deals I have run across over the years. The exception to this is people that are in this business and make their living at it. In that case I expect to provide fair compensation for services.

Bill, Good luck on the car sale and remember, the deal of the century comes along every couple of months.

Jay

[Ron61]

Bill,

I have sent links to the car and your post to several friends in other states. California would be a hassle getting the SB-100 number and that is the first thing anyone around here asks, but I have shown a few the picture of the car anyway.

Good luck with the sale as it is going to be a great one when finished.

Ron

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by 289ACE

If charging a fee works for you, then by all means do it, but for me I'll continue to do freebies when and where I can. I believe in trying to keep the Karma good and I believe that has led to some of the deals I have run across over the years.

Jay, I agree with you 100%. But on the other hand, I was at the grocery store the other night standing in line at the checkout to buy a steak to grill up and the guy in front of me, who was doing the same, was explaining to the checkout girl that, while he had no money, he had loads of good karma. He did not get his steak....

[289ACE]

Patrickt,
I think I covered that in my last sentence

"The exception to this is people that are in this business and make their living at it. In that case I expect to provide fair compensation for services."

Jay

[RodKnock]

I'm with the good karma crowd. I can't believe anyone is going to get rich from putting a buyer and seller together and getting a finder's fee.

Bill, if I knew of someone, then I would expect zero dollars. Good luck.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

I'm with the good karma crowd. I can't believe anyone is going to get rich from putting a buyer and seller together and getting a finder's fee.

You miss the point. A certain segment of our populace will help Bill for free; another segment will only help "if there is something in it for them." And while the former will continue to help if a fee is offered, the latter can only be enlisted for a sum. If Bill wants to expand his universe of potential sales, he needs to enlist as many intermediaries as possible, and the way he does that is with a negotiable finder's fee. If the amount of that fee makes a potential deal untenable, then he would have never made that particular sale to begin with. In other words, Bill has nothing to lose, and will only gain, from advertising a finders fee.

[candyman]

I'm in with the good karma crowd also. I still believe if you help someone it will come back to you in one form or another.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by candyman

I'm in with the good karma crowd also.

As am I, however an appreciation for the fact that not everyone is motivated by altruistic sentiments is what afforded many of us the wherewithall to buy our Cobras in the first place....

[RodKnock]

I totally understand money as a motivator, which has its limitations, but we're talking "chump change" here and also we're talking about someone who's been a significant contributor to this forum. In my view, sometimes you take one for the team.

[Sharroll Celby]

I think one should always try and help out their friends with favors, and they should help YOU out as well, but when there is money being made, thers SHOULD be some small "tip" for the helping person.

[mrmustang]

I want to thank all who have forwarded my ad to their friends. I've had a couple of nibbles, but still no bites. Just waiting for someone to actually come and take a look at it as it will sell on that alone, so keep forwarding it out to your circle of friends if you know they are looking.

Sincerely,

Bill S.

[patrickt]

Bill, does it have that FFR shock issue corrected?