Has Gearhart Chevrolet Discovered Doug Bulna's Sabotage Yet? (1-year!)

[obumazombie]

God, it will be nice when this thread moves away from cars.

Lentil bread is more interesting than cars.

With a nice bowl of stone soup.

[franksolich]

God, it will be nice when this thread moves away from cars.

Lentil bread is more interesting than cars.

Oh now, but the brain-damaged primitive's always been into cars, not lentils.

And the purpose of this thread is to teach the brain-damaged primitive, who checks it out every day, humility and how to get along with people.

[franksolich]

Could the old man have been doing this to reduce his income tax burden every year and at the same time building himself a tax free retirement fund. He subtracted the cost of the cars from his gross which reduced his net income......knowing that if he held the cars long enough they would increase in value until that increase would more than cover his expense and inflation giving him a profit on his investment......and knowing that in the end he could probably sell most of the cars for cash.

John, sir, you deserve to be a millionaire, with what you know.

I'd been inquiring, curious as to why the guy never tried to re-sell trade-ins, and why he let good cars go to pot in the arctic Sandhills winters and saharan Sandhills summers.

What you described isn't exactly what he was doing, but it's pretty close to what he was doing.

That the cars were accumulating and deteriorating bothered him not the least; there were, uh, considerable tax advantages to letting this happen.  If he'd continued doing business the way other automotive dealers do business, he would've ended up a seven-figure millionaire.

But because he did what he did, strictly for tax purposes, he actually ended up an eight-figure millionaire.

[GOBUCKS]

All that stuff about junk cars has threatened this thread with oblivion.

I'm still hopeful that Doug Bulna will return to the DUmp with his lunacy in full flower.

The best outcome would be for Doug and Amber to strike up a dialogue in the DUmp Lounge.

He's her type.

[franksolich]

The car sale last weekend was generally the topic around here, although according to newspaper reports, nearly all of the old vehicles have now been removed, and the field's sprouting up soybeans.

What I found incredulous were the reports of traffic.  I wasn't aware traffic was that heavy, because the two times I'd driven to Pierce were during "off hours," just before the showing on Friday and the selling on Saturday and Sunday.

This is what a heavily-travelled highway in the Sandhills usually looks like:

This photograph wasn't taken in the Sandhills--I think it was taken just outside Ellicott City, Maryland--but this is apparently what it looked like beginning Friday morning:

The newspapers allege there was bumper-to-bumper traffic, and that it was taking some people twenty-five minutes to get a mere 17 miles.

Geezuz.

[GOBUCKS]

I'm curious as to whether Gearhart Chevrolet and other GM dealers will stay open during the government shutdown.

[freedumb2003b]

All that stuff about junk cars has threatened this thread with oblivion.

I'm still hopeful that Doug Bulna will return to the DUmp with his lunacy in full flower.

The best outcome would be for Doug and Amber to strike up a dialogue in the DUmp Lounge.

He's her type.

If his ass wasn't fired then that is the stupidest dealership owner ever.

[franksolich]

Well, the results are now public.

The first day of the sale (Sautrday), when the "big items" were auctioned off, brought $1,951,030.

The second day of the sale (Sunday), the leftovers, brought $2,841,425.

Almost five million dollars; $4,792,455 to be exact.

According to proxibid, it was the largest internet auction in which they've been involved, with 5,507 registered bidders.  Internet bids won 37% of the total.

[franksolich]

Last night, in a casual conversation with law-enforcement, who knew the guy personally (he's still alive, but 96 years old), he alleged that he was a nasty old grouch who was curtly rude to most who approached him.

If he didn't like the looks of someone, that someone wasn't going to get a car from him.

And the cop said that was about two-thirds, three-quarters, of the people who tried.

Okay, so perhaps he wasn't Mr. Sunshine.....but on the other hand, he sold thousands of Chevrolets 1946-1996, and even without this auction, he's going to die worth into eight figures.....having arisen from poor dirt-farmer boy to a "20/52" after the second world war (veterans were paid twenty bucks a week for a full year after discharge).

I for one think he did rather well, for allegedly being a curmudgeon.

I hadn't paid attention before, but apparently his operation was pretty tiny; it was just himself, his wife answering the telephone and filing the files, and a mechanic.

Pierce has a little over 1,600 people, which in this area means the urban mass can support two or three automotive dealerships.  Most small-town dealerships in this area have the owner, three or four salesmen, and three or four mechanics, a secretary, and a file clerk.  Janitorial work's contracted out, and the mechanics clean the interiors of used cars to make them saleable.

So this was a pretty little itty-bitty operation.

The mechanic lived out on the farm where the used vehicles were kept, but he died about the time the owner called it quits, back in 1996.  That's when most of the vandalism and theft started; during the Clinton adminisration, which itself was not squeamish about vandalizing and stealing.

[zeitgeist]

I'm curious as to whether Gearhart Chevrolet and other GM dealers will stay open during the government shutdown.

You have a darn fine point there GOBUCKS.  Let's face it, this thread was car jacked, but for all the right reasons, cars are more interesting than lentil soup.


Back in the day of CB I use to talk to a babe who went by the handle Red Pacer 'cause she drove a red Pacer.  She is probably a great grand mother today.

[BattleHymn]

Back in the day of CB I use to talk to a babe who went by the handle Red Pacer 'cause she drove a red Pacer.  She is probably a great grand mother today.

If the grasswipe primitive were Red Pacer, you'd need to stick ten or fifteen more greats on there.

[franksolich]

You have a darn fine point there GOBUCKS.  Let's face it, this thread was car jacked, but for all the right reasons, cars are more interesting than lentil soup.

This thread wasn't carjacked; it's meant to keep the brain-damaged primitive in the front and fore until he goes to Skins's island and explains and apologizes to the primitives for his rectal apertury.

As is Tucker's thread.

Tucker's thread is meant to discuss the repercussons of the brain-damaged primitive's childish tantrums and his employment situation; this thread is meant to discuss anything of interest to the brain-damaged primitive (which includes cars).  He comes and reads both threads every day.

I can assure the brain-damaged primitive that once he explains and apologizes to his fellow primitives, both threads will very quickly wither away to the back pages, his stupidity not forgiven but at least forgotten.

[GOBUCKS]

this thread is meant to discuss anything of interest to the brain-damaged primitive (which includes cars).  

Agree! But cars? Cars are only marginally more interesting than ice hockey and soccer.

I'm sure that our pal Doug is interested in a lot more than stupid cars.

How about mustaches, or glass eyes?

[miskie]

Yeah.  There's only ever been one of those, but I forget her name.

She was the first wife of the sniffing primitive, who dumped her for some fat broad.

Originally she went my Mrs. Sniffa, then became Phoenix Rising - then became completely forgotten by the other primitives.

[BattleHymn]

Agree! But cars? Cars are only marginally more interesting than ice hockey and soccer.

I was drug along to watch a professional hockey game once.  I would be hard pressed to think of something that was more boring.  The only thing that was remotely interesting about the whole endeavor was watching the drunks try not to piss on themselves in the bathroom, while avoiding the huge pile of empties thrown into a corner.

[Chris_]

I was drug along to watch a professional hockey game once.  I would be hard pressed to think of something that was more boring.  The only thing that was remotely interesting about the whole endeavor was watching the drunks try not to piss on themselves in the bathroom, while avoiding the huge pile of empties thrown into a corner.

The only spectator sport more boring than hockey is golf.

[BattleHymn]

The only spectator sport more boring than hockey is golf.

I don't do spectator sports to begin with.  It blows my mind that anybody can watch golf. 

[GOBUCKS]

The only advantage to soccer over ice hockey is that you can see the soccer ball.
To me they're both Chinese fire drills.

[Chris_]

I don't do spectator sports to begin with.  It blows my mind that anybody can watch golf. 

It used to drive me nuts, my dad would come home on the weekends and watch golf on the TV all day.  Awful stuff.

[freedumb2003b]

It used to drive me nuts, my dad would come home on the weekends and watch golf on the TV all day.  Awful stuff.

It could have been worse.  He could have watched soccer.

[Chris_]

It could have been worse.  He could have watched soccer.

The only time you could watch soccer on television during the 80's was during the Olympics or if you had cable. 

Good thing we didn't have cable and the Olympics was every four years.

[thundley4]

The only spectator sport more boring than hockey is golf.

Professional bowling  and fishing tournaments rank up there, too.

[Chris_]

Professional bowling  and fishing tournaments rank up there, too.

Modern television has surpassed even that... they now broadcast card games.

[GOBUCKS]

Bowling and fishing are much better on TV than ice hockey or soccer.

Bowling gets over with pretty quickly, and in fishing they only show the highlights.

[thundley4]

Bowling and fishing are much better on TV than ice hockey or soccer.

Bowling gets over with pretty quickly, and in fishing they only show the highlights.

Bill Dance fishing bloopers are pretty funny.