Not true Al, the blue schmitt was a good basis for a restoration, I didn't hear anyone disparage it and I wanted to buy it! When I asked how much he wanted for it he said mega bucks which silly for one in that state, as more asked the question it got cheaper and cheaper until your chum bought it! Just show is not always beneficial to be the one to ask first!
Not the impression that the seller gave. He was thinking he was dropping a hottie on selling it to chummy for more than I would have bid, which is why I stood down. Well until people started 'phoning him offering more money as he come to deliver the car after accepting a deposit a few days before. Clearly, then, for what ever reason these guys did not offer enough on the day and revised their bids to a point that he was offered incentives to renege on the deal with chummy.
I think if you really wanted a car on site you put you bid in with details and follow up at the end of the day, with additional set of details, to check where things have got to. Not sure you were really wanting another Schmitt as a planned purchase, Bob, so I am talking of others. We all want a bargain but the seller has to sort out those who do not want to pay his price, those who are 'messers' and will not come through and those who are serious. In this case he put himself in a weak position as he had not done his homework so was bluffed down on the day, the pack sensed it and it was a question of who followed up best. However even though I was not present I got my chum lined up on it after deciding I did not want it myself. Like a greyhound he saw and chased it down first. I find that amusing.
Since then one suitor has sold off a clutch of cars, so he really needed it, another bought a Schmitt unseen but does not like them and a third got enmeshed in a bit of a situation with some other cars he agrees he does not need on the rebound. None of these guys admit to being miffed nor are they dealers of course. It is pure chance they always have a car to sell. I find this very amusing.
There is still an official condition rumour doing the rounds on the blue car and there are many experts on it in the marque Clubs that have never even seen it. That is the most amusing bit of all. The joys of ease and widespread coms to spread the dirt. Hee Hoor! You either believe it or you do not but not playing is no longer really an option unless you sell up.
I remain happy I did not buy it and can confirm that someone in the Schmitt world was well ahead of us all in having an option to buy and turned it down as it 'was to much work'. He is having the biggest laugh of the lot having made money out of not buying it! Brilliant.
The only help this is for the Beemer is that if he still has it the car might come for a reasonable price. However unlike the Schmitt I know nothing about this car so cannot comment.