</font><font color="blue" class="small">( While we are on this subject I'd like to offer one more thought from my perspective of 25 years as a car dealer . . . cash itself. We cannot accept large amounts of actual currency for a car purchase unless the buyer fills out a currency transaction report that we file with the IRS. In some parts of the country there have been criminal prosecutions of car dealers over this, for assisting unwittingly in money laundering.)</font>
/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Back in the late '60's, before the world got so paranoid, I was in a Camaro club headquartered at a Chevy dealership in Flint, Michigan. One of the stories the sales guys loved to tell was about this elderly black gentleman who was always hanging around the showroom looking at the cars on display. He came to be a fixture, everyone knew him by name, etc.
One day they had a car in the showroom that he really liked. He asked one of the salesman what it cost. The guy showed him the window sticker, and told him the price. The man told him he would buy it and to get it ready, then walked out the door. The salesman had a pretty good laugh with his coworkers about it all. A while later, the customer shows up with a wheelbarrow full of money -- change, dollar bills, 5s, maybe a couple of 10s, but nothing bigger. He told the salesman to count out what he needed and let him know if there was enough. If not, he could go home and bring back some more!
The year was 1968. I had just gotten out of college and was pretty happy to have purchased a new Camaro with 327, 4 speed, disc brakes, and a stereo radio for $2750 out the door.
