The Black One ’76 Scout II

I live in Chattanooga, so I figured I would look there first, and to my surprise, there were two! The first one was listed on Facebook, but it turns out it was at a used dealership named Z Motors. I contacted a guy named Phillip, and we set up a time to meet. I showed up at Z-Motors to take a test drive, and no dice. I learned a valuable lesson, which is to ask if the thing is running. Not yesterday…not a week ago. Is it running today?

Anyway, this guy (Phillip) told me the car was listed for $28,995 on Facebook Marketplace, which seemed high, but I needed to get out and see some and drive. As I said, I didn’t ask if it was running today. I headed out there, and a used car salesman met me. He knows a lot—about EVERYTHING. Just ask Phillip a question, and he knows the answer, or he made something up. I looked it over. I had no idea what I was looking at or for…so since it wasn’t running. I left and asked if he would get a battery charger and charge the battery. I scheduled a time for later this week to come back for a test drive.

I decided to grab my friend who has tons of knowledge about classic cars. He used to run a service called Second Daily Classics. He created it to compete with Bring a Trailer. I hear you can go to BAT and pay top dollar. I would love to hear that isn’t true. There are some cool vehicles for sure!

When I showed up again to drive it, the battery was still dead, and Phillip informed me that the owner had raised the price to $41,000, but if I paid him 29K today, he would honor the price. Busch league!

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