If one digs a little into this car dealer's other auctions, one can see his
'66 T-Bird, shown here
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2481176930
This car dealer claims his T-Bird has a leather interior, in two different
places in his ad. If one knows what 40 year old leather and 40 year old
vinyl looks like in comparison, then looks at this T-Bird, one can easily
see how loosely this car dealer uses the word. This T-Bird would appear to
have the standard vinyl interior. Leather was a real rarity in those 'Birds.
The front seats of the LeBaron look like they could have been redone in
leather. If so, the dye wasn't correctly matched. To this dealer's credit,
I'd bet its genuine, virgin, and natural vinyl, possibly organically grown
from the richest petrochemicals available. From his ad, this dealer seems to
know how to recognize original carpeting, you'd think he'd be a little more
up on leather and vinyl.
It sounds like he is pretty loose w/the facts in the 'one of 19 cars made'
statement, too. This pattern of false advertising could be a useful tool in
negotiating by the bid winner.
Buyer beware of the wormy spud.
Eric
'63 Crown Four-Door
'72 Newport Custom Sedan
From: Mike Pittinaro <mechimike@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: IML: BB older syster, 67 LeBaron on eBay
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> Very nice looking car. It also looks to me like the
> front seat has been
> redone in vinyl. Just doesn't have the same "glow"
> to it as the rear
I was noticing that too...if the car does have 118,000
miles on it as the seller believes, its nearly
impossible that the front seats would looklike
that,especiallyafter 37 years! My 67 coupe has what I
consider to be very presentable original front seats,
and even they (especially the driver) have some
surface cracks and loose seams. That, coupled with
the different sheens of the material makes me
suspicious that they were redone.
I see a lot of old cars advertised with leather seats
when in fact they are vinyl. I like to believe that
people are just clueless, and not deliberately trying
to be deceptive. But I also hate to get them all
defensive about a possible flaw with their car.
Subject: Re: IML: BB older syster, 67 LeBaron on eBay
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List:
I happened to ask the seller about his statement that this car was, "...one
of only 19 made," since production records in the Langworth books and the
OIC site showed more than 2,900 units of these models made that year.
His response was that it was one of only 19 made with the dual (rear) air.
None of the production figures I have seen break down the data to that level
of granularity but isn't it a bit hard to believe that less than 1% of the
total production had this option? Or is that a typical or reasonable
number? No big deal, I was just curious.
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