Used Car lot circa: 1980

[ws23rt]

I stopped at many car lots in those days that were like that one.  But a memory always comes up when thinking about them.

I was looking at a few cars on a used car lot with the need to buy.  A salesman approached and asked what I wanted?
Well I am looking for a car.  He asked if I had any money?----I am shopping and don't have money with me.----I tell you what he said.  Go home get some money, cut your hair and when you come back we may talk.

One of many life lessons learned about salesmanship and how to be a jackass.  I had to pass on a nice GTX that day

[sanders7981]

GREAT pics OP.      I was just a year old in 1980, but I am sure that I had visited a few carlots like this with my grandfather. Could you imagine getting a loan for $30k and going back in time to save these beauties!?  This lot is practically a gold mine! 

[wingcar]

This thread brings back memories of a "used car lot" on Whittier Blvd. in California called "Stick City".   Those of us who cruised the Blvd. would usually stop by to see with was new on the lot.   He was the local hot rod dealer and he never failed to have something on the lot of interest.  On the back lot you could usually find several unfinished hot rods or project cars for sale.  It seemed as if a lot of movie cars passed through his lot at one time or another as well.  Including the "Aloha Bobby and Rose" Camaro with its Tasco small block, the cars from the TV movie "Rage" including the custom Ranchero, and he even had the Corvette Stingray used in the crash scene for the TV movie "Jan and Dean".  
I put money down on a 71 340 Demon that had a 426 Hemi transplanted into...a real sleeper as it looked to all the world to be a 340 car.  Before I could work out the details of the sale, the car was stolen off the lot.  It was recovered but the thieves had cut out the mounts...sad.  It seems as if this was just one of several Hemi cars he lost and as he said, it was bad enough that they took the engine, but did they have to cut out the mounts.  Anyway a lot of interesting cars passed through at one time or another......