Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grace and Danny claim that they have been constantly threatened since the murder of her first husband. Whatever the connection between those threats and Mits's murder, the police have yet to find Mits's killer. Twice police have stopped and searched Danny's car while he was driving Grace and her children. Last month they stopped him again, found a pistol, arrested him and impounded his car. Facing trial next month, Danny groans: "I just hope that great court in Washington makes a new law greater than mine. Then maybe we'll be left alone...
Paying the manufacturer's list price shown on the window sticker of a new car may be about as smart as snapping up an itinerant rug merchant's opening offer. Very few buyers do- but equally few have any notion of the facts on which dealer dickering is based. Such knowledge can save the buyer several hundred dollars...
True Value. The markup from wholesale to list price of course provides the main bargaining grounds for the buyer. In the competitive haggling, the dealer can say that he is discounting the list price of the car in question. Also, the buyer may be led to think that he is getting a good deal on the old car he is trading in. How can he determine whether he is getting a good trade-in price? It makes little, if any, difference if the trade-in car has only a few thousand miles registered on the odometer, whether it has good...
What does matter is this: new-car dealers can rarely sell anything near the total number of used cars that they take as trade-ins. Rather, they sell most of their trade-ins to full-time used-car dealers. These sales take place at weekly auctions held in centralized locations throughout the country. What a trade-in car is worth is determined by what its year and model brought at the previous week's auction in a particular locality. These prices are listed in the trade magazine Automotive News. Thus, according to Automotive News, a 1962 Impala (8) Sport...
When the auto shopper knows the difference between the list price and the wholesale price of his new car, and the amount of what his trade-in is actually worth during a given week in a given area, he is ready to begin bargaining realistically...