Ex WB Owner Poor Bastard:
Gday Bluey,
I have just bought my first ute only a couple of weeks ago after my piece of shit Gemini finally karked it.(Thank God). The missus actually suggested that i get a ute for my new mode of transport and i thought it was a bloody good idea.
We went looking around a few places but didnt find anything that took my fancy. But I was looking through the Trading Post and found a reasonable sounding ute at a reasonable sounding price. The ute was just a plain Jane WB, six cylinder with three on the tree. The ute had never been stuffed with and was in near perfect condition from the showroom, except for the usual wear and tear. I had a mechanic mate look over it for me just in case there was some problem that i hadnt picked up on. He told me the the front end was pretty tired and needed a bit of work to get it up to scratch, as well as some other little things that needed seeing to that werent that major.
NOW, the bloke that was selling it thought it was the best ute in Australia, You will never find a WB in better condition than this...etc....etc...etc.... It sounded like a bit of a carsales mans yarn, and it didnt take long to realise that this guy was a bit full of SHIT. This guy had the gift of the gab and wouldnt shut up. I told him the couple of problems that my mate had found with the ute and this prick just laughed in my face and said that we were both dreaming, and there was nothing wrong with the ute at all.
ANYWAY, after a bit of negotiation we settled on a price and a part of the deal was that it had to come with a roadworthy certificate. " No worries mate " he said to me, " It wont need anything at all for a roadie ". I was happy that i was getting a nice clean ute, he was happy until the guy doing the roadie called him up and told him that the front end needed a full rebuild, it needed new brakes and tyres all round and the suspension was shot. After 5 days at the mechanics getting repaired, the ute was finally ready for me to pick up from the guys place and he wasnt a happy camper. He started whining that the roadie cost him a small fortune and wanted to charge me an extra $1500 to cover part of his costs to get the ute roadworthy. i told him to stick his $1500 up his arse and that he wasnt getting any extra dough out of my pocket. After a few heated words and a threat to go to court, the guy finally gave in and gave me the keys and the papers to the ute.
I was stoked, not only did i get a mighty fine ute with a virtually new undercarrige at a pretty good price, i had put a loud mouthed, smat arsed, know it all mongruel back in his box, and he was about $2500 out of pocket due to repairs that he thought the ute didnt need to get it roadworthy. All i can say to that is that what goes around comes around, YOU POOR BASTARD!!!!!
Thanks, Dave Britton.
