Deleted ad for COPO engine - anyone else see it?

**Rainer** · #1 09-25-2007, 08:58 PM

Yesterday at around 1:15pm PST there was an ad posted with the title "Complete Date Code Correct ZL motor from C.O.P.O." with several pics and a price of around $16,500. The seller claimed it was a restamped engine that was previously in a real car, and that real car was just reunited with its original engine. There was one reply to the ad just two minutes after it was posted (by Fast67velleN20), and I came across it no more than 5 minutes after it was posted. The ad has apparently been deleted (moderators only, right?). So was it bogus, or did someone on the inside get a smoking deal that was kept hush-hush?

**427king** · #2 09-25-2007, 09:02 PM

Re: Deleted ad for COPO engine - anyone else see it?

I had contacted the seller and he said he was selling the item for a well respected member here and the price was 16K and hed get some info as far as casting dates etc for me . Then today he said the price was changed to the high 20s as the owner remembered he had that into the motor and not the 16 k he originally wanted.

**Charley Lillard** · #3 09-25-2007, 11:57 PM

I pulled it at the request of the poster because the guy he had listed it for realized he was in it for alot more than the listed price.

showyourauto · #4 09-26-2007, 02:57 AM

I am sorry about the confusion on that one guys. The owner of the motor gave me that price while I was visting his collection without checking his records. Yesterday he realized what he had into the motor while researching the answers to some of the questions prospective buyers had. I apologize for getting everyone hot and bothered, then have to pull the ad (thank you Charlie). I'll take the egg on my face to save my cleint from selling a perfectly good motor at a considerable loss.

Sincerely,

Patrick Krook

camarojoe · #5 09-26-2007, 06:10 AM

Is it hard to sell stuff with a last name like that?

TC · #6 09-26-2007, 06:18 AM

Tom

showyourauto · #7 09-26-2007, 05:34 PM

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Is it hard to sell stuff with a last name like that?

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Well, that took all of a dozen posts...

It can be disarming, I once ran for student senate in college with the campaign slogan "I am not a Nixon." and got elected.

I even thought of using my name for the business:

Perhaps a tag line like "Drive it like it's stolen ('cause it is)." -or- "Hot Cars at Hot Prices."

**tom406** · #8 09-27-2007, 09:51 PM

Very successful classic car dealer here (12cyl Packards especially) named Tom Crook. He made his fortune in regular cars prior, and would snag classics on trade and whatnot. Eventually sold the regular gig, and used his collection to start the classic car operation.

Literally being a "Crook" doesn't seem to be a hinderance to success in auto sales. I'd argue it does a lot for name recognition and referrals, if only because people remember if they were happy buying their car from a "crook" (or krook).

On another note, I went to college with a guy named Richard Kisser.....even the professers ragged on him. (No, we weren't close...)

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