Weird own reaction from sales enquiry

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ChawenHalo

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 Bordeaux
Think I may need some shrink's help on this one:
Some dude asked the bar next door who was the proprietor of the Z4MC. Turns out he's an old retired racer (up to F1 in the 70's and his name checks out 100%) and loves the car. When my wife came back he had a chat with her asking eventually if it was for sale. Holy molly when I got back just the fact that the missus told me he wanted to buy it , I got all weird. He might as well have asked if he could buy my wife! I tried to be pleasent but it it was really strange. I knew he was serious and even though there was no speaking of amounts, no amount of dissuation would put him off (you can find them on the internet, there currently 4 for sale in France; chassis has been heavily modified, etc etc). He just just replied yes I know, and I know the guys who did all your moifications, here's my phone number if you ever thinbking about it, let me know. Lovely old school way of doing things but I felt like he was going to rape my baby. Think I need help or a Buddist explainig me that a) getting attached to things is not good and b) getting emotionally involved with that thing is even worse. My own reaction really surprised me there. I don't ever mind talking about my car or showing around to people. WTF?
 
Well it sounds like a compliment to me. He wants to buy your car, and he's an ex F1 driver. As for Buddhist philosophy: possessions possess you, suffering is born from us wanting things to be other than how they are. Doubt you will find many Z4-forum members practicing non-attachment either :D
 
Similar thing happened with a mate of mine and Jimmy Savile! :rofl:

You should take it as a compliment that he knows there are others for sale and yours is obviously better.
 
No, I don't think its got much to do with mine but just the old way that people buy cars over here. We all know Z4s are fairly rare in general, coupes even more so. Whilst I'll see a few in the UK, in France in 8 years I've seen 4! He just said he liked the shape. My wife who's a local assures me there is no way in hell he'd go on the old litterweb to buy a car. He'll ask his friends who'll ask theirs. In fact that's exactly how my wife bought her bottle green beige full leather Z3 Coupe. People over here are far less into cars than say the UK, Germany or the US. The result is classic car fan tend to stick in that community and trade. Something else I noticed bizzarly is that oldtimers enthusiasts and collectors love both Z3 and Z4 coupes while they would not look at twice a modern 911. Funny that.
 
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