2 year wait with a down payment WOW!

[SRT8 WOOLF]

Charlotte couple waits two years for new car | lansingstatejournal.com | Lansing State Journal
Charlotte couple waits two years for new car

CHARLOTTE - If you think you waited a long time for your new car, consider the case of David and Kaye Persell.


The Persells, it so happens, are the lucky owners of a 1971 Dodge Hemi Challenger. Orange. It's a car that has muscles on its muscles, and the Persells love it dearly.

So, in 2006, when Chrysler resurrected the Challenger nameplate as a concept car, then announced it would put the car into limited production, the Persells decided to, as David put it in an e-mail to me, "pursue the purchase."

He put it that way because success was by no means assured. It was one of those situations where you slap down a $1,000 deposit, fill out your order, and hope you're lucky enough to get the chance - at some point in the distant future - to spend $42,000 on a car that wouldn't exactly baby you at the gas pump.

Assuming, of course, that Chrysler actually decided to build the car.

In other words, the deal wasn't for everybody. It was, however, for the Persells. The Charlotte couple just didn't realize, when they wrote their deposit check, that the pursuit would last two years.

They picked up their 2008 Challenger last week. Although they were glad to get it, when I asked her if it was worth the trouble, she sighed.

"We love the car," Kaye said, "but we didn't know, in 2006, that it would turn into this."

For more on this report, read Thursday's Lansing State Journal.

[SRT8 WOOLF]

dang and were hopelessly waiting for a few months...........

[Go Goody]

I have been waiting over 2 years.....had to beat up a Charger to get me thru the Jones!

[SRT8 WOOLF]

yeah but they put a payment down

Originally Posted by Go Goody

I have been waiting over 2 years.....had to beat up a Charger to get me thru the Jones!

[Go Goody]

I think a 35k payment on the Charger was enough! LOL

[NOTSURE]

LOl so true!
I had money down on my 08 as of early last summer,and never saw the car...The dealer sold the car for 10k more to his buddy..

I think we have all been waiting for 30 years or so.I feel for the winners of the Dr Z contest they still dont have the cars they won ,ouch..

Originally Posted by Go Goody

I think a 35k payment on the Charger was enough! LOL

[arangeastang]

My local hero (since he got his challenger first in this area) did the same thing. Put a grand down after we went to the clev auto show in 2006, and fially got his car back in mid june....# 155 to be exaact!

I've been waiting since i've seen the spy shots of the concept of this car......so I to have been waiting and waiting and waiting!

[ltaverna]

I put a cash deposit down with my dealer on December 1, 2005. Got #424 on
June 17, 2008. Everything went according to plan....except for the 2.5 year wait

[SRT8 WOOLF]

dang that should be u in the paper then

Originally Posted by ltaverna

I put a cash deposit down with my dealer on December 1, 2005. Got #424 on
June 17, 2008. Everything went according to plan....except for the 2.5 year wait