Re: sold my boat sat then the guy called me something broke
boats break. It's just what happens and you have no idea what he did to it.Could have had it on a fast idle warm up and kept slamming it into gear. That would make it hard to go in gear, and break it.
I had a 1965 Rambler that I sold to a younger kid and fully explaning to him what it needed ( rebuilt front suspension as the trunions were seperating ) and made up 2 copies of a bill of sale, explaining as is- where is, no warranty expressed or implied. Kid field hopped it with the worn suspension ( actually seen him as he lived not far away ) and busted the trunions right out of it. At that point, the car is probably not even fixable .. His dad calls and tells me it completly broke and asked what to do. I told him to visit the AMC mechanic in town and it would probably cost $600 for rebuilt trunions without a core. Even told him where to source the parts.. Few days later he calls and asks if I can do the work for free and I told him no.. Weeks go by and he sees me in the grocery store and asks me to buy the car back for 1/2 of what the kid paid, and I turned him down... Later I see a Craigslist add for the car, for more money than the kid paid.. In the end, he had several chances to sell the car to AMC collectors for $5-600 but turned each one of them down wanting $1,500. He paid $1,200 and his dad scrapped the car about a year later.
