Bro, when you tuna'ed, you didn't use those synths, did you?
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This isn't directly gear related, but it is financial, so as you know finances are intricately tied in with gear.
Get ready, an NWJ true story follows.
Okay, so my wife and I just moved to a western US state from California. Due to the rugged terrain, snow and ice, we traded in our cars and got a really nice '09 Acura MDX, in really really nice condition. So we're out here, but we only have one car. I'm literally riding my bicycle to get to the store in this freezing cold, riding on ice, shit is crazy. Been trying to buy a second suv, but people hold the FUCK onto their cars out here. We've been looking for like 3 weeks. Cars with 240,000 miles, just beat to shit, bottoms all rusted out from the salt that is used to keep ice off the roadways. Just utterly destroyed cars, and they want $7,000 for them.
So we finally find this little 05 Honda CRV. It is a salvage title, it was totaled in 09. The guy that is selling it is in the business of buying wrecked cars and restoring them. Auto repair shops in the states know how to bid up damage estimates to milk the insurance companies, so often a fender bender in a relatively new car will total the car, and the car is considered salvage. So this guy just did a car for himself. It is a PIMPED out Chrysler 300, it is kind of lowered with ground fx, custom pimp red leather seats. Insane paint and gloss on it, just all kinds of accents etc. BUT this crv that he is selling to me is not one of his cars, that he has done. I'm like what? This is your business, this is a salvaged car that has been fixed up but you didn't do it? He's like, no, selling it for my sister, she bought it salvaged, driven it for 6 years, the car is fine.
Okay, so I get it checked out, mechanic says the car is fine, it needs a few little things, whatever. So we haggle on the price, I decide to buy it. Turns out the sister sold it to another one of her brothers, and he is the one selling the car. I'm like what, who owns the car? Turns out the sister still owns the car, OFFICIALLY. She sold it to her brother, but he never filed the title, so she is still the owner, I'm like, okay get her down here, and have her sign the title over to me. This is all taking days, btw, back and forth, back and forth. It is feeling really scammy, but I'm between a rock and riding my bicycle on ice in the great western wasteland, so I proceed. Okay, so she shows, she signs off on the title, on the back of the title there is a stamp from a bank. I did a title search, she owns the car free and clear no liens. After further finagling turns out brother number two, the brother that supposedly bought it, took a loan out to buy the car. But we're in the wild wild west, and he is friends with the bank manager that did the loan, and he had the bank not file the lien on the title... holy fuck, this is a disaster. In driving the car, I can hear, there is a whine, I know the tranny is gonna go, btw. I should just walk away, but there are like NO alternatives. So I'm like, we're going to get your sister to do this and that create these documents, we're going to go to the bank and get them to notarize the release of the lien.
Okay, agreed. So we're going to go to the bank, my wife gets into the mdx, I get into the crv, and he gets into his Tahoe, we're going to follow him. I put the key into the ignition, and I hear CRUNCH. I turn around, my wife backed out and crashed our new MDX into brother #1's new Chrysler 300, crunching the front end, and creasing the driver side door of our new mdx, so the door barely opens...
And this is where we get to the gear lust part. The crunch that I heard, was her driving over my new Allen and Heath mixer... it is probably not going to happen now.
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