No Problem at Munday Chevy in Houston, Dude asked me which ones I wanted to test drive I told him one auto, One six speed and one Vert', he drove them off the Showroom floor tossed me the keys and off I went, then came back the following Sat with the wife and did it all over again..........And that's why I bought my new vette from Munday Chevy, and I'll probably buy my C7 from them also.....
Great place to do business...
Went to Ray childress's place in Hempstead, "Lawerance/Marshall" Chevy they wouldn't let me test drive a vette so I told em' to shove it.......
Funny, I was in Dallas not ever in a million years thinking about buying a vette, when my friend saw a GTO at a dealer in Dallas, TX from the road, so we stopped. I was just looking at the vettes druling at the mouth and this young guy (like 24) walks up to me and says, "you want to drive one?" I said, "no, I am just looking, my friend over ther wanted to look at that GTO. He asked again and I said there was no way his manager would let me drive one. Now picture this, I am wearing shorts, sandals and a ball cap on backwards. He said he would be write back. Long story short, I drove 3 of them and that was all it took. I had to have one. So I called the wife, got the approval after the shock was over and started talking numbers. I said, let me look in Houston, TX on my home and I will let you know. I spent about 2 months looking in houston and surrounding. Once I found what I was looking for, I started calling. LONESTAR CHEVROLET in Houston, TX off of HYW290 had one I liked. I delt with this guy for over a week, and he just kind of looked at me like I was this young punk. I went to every dealer with this green hat on backwards that said lucky charms on the front. I did this because I want to see who stereotypes me and judges me. Well, I decided on 2 cars I wanted to buy and they were at different dealerships. I went to LONESTAR CHEVROLET first, walked up with my sandals and backwards cap, a man met me half way over to the vette and said, "can I help you?" I said I want to drive this car right here and If I like it, I'm going to buy it today. He kind of looked at me funny and my brother was like, "why do you have to come over here looking like a bum with your hat on backwards?" I started laughing. The salesman came back outside and said, "I can't let you drive the car, we don't let people drive corvettes, a guy that really wanted to buy a corvette would understand that." I freaked out and said, "I'll give you 5 minutes to get the keys or I'm walking." He said, "it's not about time, your not driving the car!" So I went to Bill Heard, they let me any car I wanted but tried to sell me a car $10,000 yes $10,000 OVER invoice. :L is what I did. So back to my brothers house in Houston I went to surf the net one more time for my car. Landmark Chevrolet had some close to it so we went. It was 9:00 pm and I walked in and said that I just wanted to look at some cars and they said no problem, we don't close until all customers are gone. I walked in after a few minutes and told the guy that the internet showed there inventory to be more full than the lot was showing. He said that they had some out back and took me back there with a flashlight. Amongst the many dirty cars sitting in the very back with all of the shipping plastic still attached was my white whale, as my brother and I called it. I said, that one, I like that one, can I drive it? He said, "yes, let me write down the VIN numbers on these other cars so I can go and get all the keys to move them so we can get that one out." I was in such shock, that I told him not to worry about it. We walked inside and made the deal (invoice + 200.00) and I picked it up the next day after its' bath...:cool
Long story I know, but it just goes to show you that you should never judge a book by its' cover or a man by his hat...
I was not even looking to by any car at all, an when I drove that vette in Dallas, that was it baby. I will be a vette owner for life......
