Can't think of a title so I guess I'll go with newish car post. 2008 Impala SS in pink! Or is it!
My wife and I have needed a second car for a while. A year ago a local used damaged car dealer a few miles away got a 08 impala SS in. At first look my wife loved the car but once she saw the damage lost interest a little. Me being some what of a car guy could tell from the damage done it had simply been curbed after understeering into a turn.
It had custom paint so I was sure it hadn't had anything switched out to make it look not so bad. At the time the dealer wanted to fix it after finding a buyer and had a few people interested. It was out of our budget at the time and the difference was to great to try to make a deal. So we forgot about it no way could we save up enough before it sells. One year later we stop by just looking at Mercedes wagon thst had caught my eye from the road and I wanted a look. After looking at it i check out the back lot where he keeps new arrivals and holy shit it's still here and mostly fixed with a price tag we can afford. We go in to talk to him and he said he just finished most of the work it still needs an a few parts put on before it's ready to go. We take down all the info the bank needed and got the loan a few hours later. He put a hold on the car got the work done and 2 days later we took it home. In the first 48hrs we had 3 offers to buy it randomly. One pissed off guy who said he to saw it and almost bought it but decided it was shit then tried to talk me into selling it to him. I posted it to imgur and instantly got hated on for my lights like chill dude I didn't install them. But I do love them now I can blind all the assholes in lifted trucks with off road light bars on too.
The reason my wife loves it, it has color shift paint it's colors are red pink purple. The thing is almost everyone sees a different color as being primary and it's a battle between red and pink. I don't mind the pink in fact I love the car probably a lot more than my wife loves it. I wish I could capture the effect artificial light produces at night in a photograp it looks electric purple.
It does have a rebuilt title but I saw the car in its untouched state and have no worrys. A bonus someone pointed out to me that knows a bit more than I and apparently missed the dealers attention as well it has a crate motor and transmission. It even oddly still has that new car smell. Someone put some work into it then went out hooning around overestimated their skill into a corner and curbed it. Their mistake my gain after having it for a year waiting for the right buyer the dealer just fixed it and took a loss too.
All right this was long my apologies if you stuck around and read all that my thanks. What you all came to see the the car. Oh and the final price $3750
Posted Oct 1, 2017, 7:42 AM UTC
I like it. Also - r/cars/.