Bryan Banquells bought a 1985 Nissan King Cab from the El Cajon Ford dealership for $29 — that’s right, $29. But the dealership soon thereafter learned, and notified Banquells, that the vehicle was legally in “salvaged” status and should not have been sold without a disclosure to that effect. It offered to buy the truck back but Banquells, who has retained attorney Hal Rosner, doesn’t like that idea; he “refuses to drive the car and feels the dealership should provide him with a new one”. Reader Steve Headley comments: “Guy buys $29 truck, truck is bad, now wants brand new truck. Yeah…. that makes sense to me.” Banquells says he does not feel safe taking his small children around in his $29 truck now that he knows it was salvaged. (“Dealer, Customer Face Off Over Salvaged Car”, NBCSanDiego.com, Jul. 26). P.S.: reader Chuck Shepherd interprets the quoted material from the article as signifying only that Banquells wants a “new” truck in the sense of “replacement used”, rather than in the sense of “brand-new”.
Buys $29 truck, complains of not feeling safe
Bryan Banquells bought a 1985 Nissan King Cab from the El Cajon Ford dealership for $29 — that’s right, $29. But the dealership soon thereafter learned, and notified Banquells, that the vehicle was legally in “salvaged” status and should not have been sold without a disclosure to that effect. It offered to buy the truck […]
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