Contacting Car's Original Owner

[flyingn]

I have never met a previous owner who was not thrilled to hear about their old car. Make that call! Im sure you will find the same thing

[BCreekDave]

Originally Posted by flyingn

I have never met a previous owner who was not thrilled to hear about their old car. Make that call! Im sure you will find the same thing

I too encourage the OP to make contact, but it isn't always a positive experience.

I am the 4th owner of my car and reached out to the second and original owners and while the original owner was great, I was threatened with serious bodily harm from the second owner. Come to find out from the third owner that the guy was fairly well known in the area of being aligned with the mob and his son had just the year before committed suicide after the police were closing in for the disappearance of his son's wife, who they still have never found. Not everybody shares the love of an old musclecar!

I went so far as to postal mail letters explaining my search and included a pre-addressed and stamped envelope that if they did not want to be contacted, to just put the envelope in the mail and I would then know that they do not want to be contacted further. I did not receive the letter back so after some time I called #2 and that's when I was threatened.

[Tracker1]

Originally Posted by flyingn

I have never met a previous owner who was not thrilled to hear about their old car. Make that call! Im sure you will find the same thing

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[earntaz]

I for one would be THRILLED to see some of my old cars/trucks ... TAZ

[Mr70]

Originally Posted by flyingn

I have never met a previous owner who was not thrilled to hear about their old car. Make that call! Im sure you will find the same thing

I shared this thought,until the one time I contacted a previous owner and they hung up.Found out later their son owned the car I was asking about car but was now deceased.
Seems the Father did not want to talk about it.
After I later wrote a letter to them explaining,the Mother wrote me back saying they don't wish to discuss the car because their son came home from Vietnam & soon died.They blamed that car but wouldn't tell me why.Seems he sevred 2 tours and lived,yet came back home & it was the car that killed him.
Father wrote in the note if he ever saw the car again,he was going to spit on it,if not kick & curse it.