Original Owner Interviews.

[Rick Cell]

What about this one
Bought a car last year from a broker not a muscle car but one of those expensive Crew England built cars. The car came with all the proper books which included the service book which they stamp at the dealer when they take it in for service but no owners name. The original selling dealer left the spot blank. The problem I had is I got one valet key and no remote controls and the broker was also at a dead end with it so I started trying to locate the previous owner. The service department where the car was serviced said they knew the car very well but could not help me because of the privacy act. Well one day when I was getting the car cleaned the detailer came to me and said that he found a black pen under the front seat that has Peninsula Hotel Beverly Hills on it and he peeled off a name that was stuck under the gas cap door like the tape they used on the protect o plates. I then called the dealer back and spoke to the same service adviser and told him why I needed to find the previous owner and as soon as I gave him the name we had on the tape he told me that yes he owned the car and that he lived at a hotel but would not say which one and that the car was always serviced there. I then called the hotel that was on the pen and spoke to the head parking attendant and asked him if he knew the gentlemen and the car? His reply to me was that he knew the car very well and also the owner and that he arranged numerous times for the car to be serviced. Then he told me that the car was sold and the gentlemen bought a new one of the same make. I thought great let me call the hotel and speak to the previous owner. So I call and get him on the phone and tell him who I was and that I needed his assistance in the car he previously owned and his response was that he never owned the car. I apologized to him but said his last name was on a piece of tape stuck under the gas cap door. He then said a relative owned the car and was out of touch with him and did not know where he was. I am still scratching my head on what to do next. Wonder what he would have said if I told him that I found an expensive piece of jewellery under the front seat?