The UNLUCKIEST Lambo owner ever!

the blue car had caught on fire i went to work at lamborghini atlanta motorcars of georgia in 2009 and i was really excited to learn how to sell i think the best way to do that is in a highly transactional business car sales is perfect because there's a lot of transacting a lot of negotiating and you're hopefully doing deals almost every single day and after some time in entrepreneurial projects it was a really really exciting thing for me and it was kind of this next step after the exotic rental car company and i learned very immediately three important things about selling the first is that it's always easier to sell someone the second car than it is the first the next is that it's easiest to sell the kind of cars that you like to own and the third is that it's easier to sell a car the second or third time you sell it and so this is really a story about how all three of those factors came together with a specific customer who had very unique circumstances about all of his cars and you think about it when you're trying to sell somebody a product first you need to make sure that it's the right product for them potentially by talking them into it and then you have to make them comfortable with buying the car or the whatever you're selling from you and so the second transaction is a lot easier because they already know they want to buy something from you because hopefully the first deal went well so i learned very early on that i wanted to build up a customer base that i would take good care of sell them the right cars be ready to trade them back in and that would be the best way for me to build a book of business within the dealership because it's still a very entrepreneurial activity that you want to kind of build your own brand of how someone might buy a lamborghini within a lamborghini dealership and honestly it worked quite well for me i kept about 100 to 150 clients most of my time there that i would talk to at least monthly to know what they had what they wanted what they were thinking about what their car goals were where they were out driving when they weren't driving and and whatever i could do including doug demiro's chasing exotics website that he had at the time spotting cars around atlanta so it was a really useful tool for me but obviously we kind of serviced the whole southeast especially for pre-owned cars and there was a customer that i had in north carolina that was a super nice guy one of my favorite customers just he was a younger guy with some young kids and a family and it was just he still had exotic cars and at that time in my life we were starting to think about having a family and i was hoping that that wouldn't necessarily preclude me from continuing to own interesting cars and so he and i developed quite a friendship relationship sales guy to customer relationship whatever you want to call it and we would talk quite often and his first lamborghini was one that i think i'd already sold once and i know that i sold it at least two more times after that but it was a 2006 lamborghini gallardo coupe and the car was very ithaca now when we think about lamborghini today we think about bright skittles colors of cars and they've always made cars in bright colors but around that time 2009-1011 that was definitely not the market preference when it came to specking a car in fact in o nine they just made lp 560 coupes in 2010 they just made lp 560 spiders plus a limited 250 vehicle run of the balboni coupes and they did that in order to help stabilize values because obviously it was a very weak time in the us economy and since a lot of exotic car owners are always small business owners the fact that they were laying off people closing businesses even if they still had the ability to buy cars they weren't out buying yellow orange and green cars and so the really brightly colored cars got a lot more rare white gray and black got a lot more common and so now obviously the brightly colored cars command a premium but back then if you found a used brightly colored car especially verti ithaca which regardless of what people say lime green attracts more attention than any color in exotic cars they could at times be hard to sell but i knew that when we had those cars even though most of the market wasn't comfortable driving one it still made them easier to sell because the production ratio was so low supply and demand still works they were rare even though the customers were rare the cars were rare they usually sold for pretty good money and so this was a car that we had gotten like i said i think i sold it at least three probably four times and i think this guy was the second guy that i sold it to but he loved the car he drove it well it was not a super low mile car i think it had high teens when he bought it which at that time was a pretty well driven example he drove it a good bit and then started to look for his next lamborghini and that next lamborghini honestly might have been one of my favorite gallardos we ever sold at lamborghini atlanta it was a 2009 lp 560 but it was special ordered in blue cepheus or blue chips depending on how you want to pronounce it but it's kind of a metallic pearlescent smurfy powder blue and i loved the color personally it was unveiled by lamborghini at the 2008 north american international auto show where they had two lp 640s one coupe one roadster on stage in this color to kind of showcase what they were then calling the ad persona program now that's become a lot more popular because today i think porsche's probably pioneered this kind of the success of your exotic car new car purchase kind of comes down to how you spec the car if you're going to order it you want to pick out all these special options which they charge a huge premium for but the lamborghini really wanted to develop that ferrari was developing their tailor-made program and so it was something that they really needed to do to allow their customers more flexibility to customize their cars and so this was a new color and in fact lamborghini atlanta prior to me working there had bought the lp 640 roadster and they had sold it to young jeezy and he had a reputation of crashing a lot of lamborghinis around the atlanta area but he did own that car and it had kind of like a baseball glove saddle interior it wasn't a normal color obviously it was designed to show off that they could do things in a customized way the coupe had a multi-texture brown interior as well and so again it was kind of a unique spec car but that color was very very polarizing at the time now it's become quite popular they also have different variants blue glauco blue lemon in fact blue lama was the color that i tried to replicate in the wrap on my cartridge gallardo so it's a non-metallic but very similar color and so the metallic effect in blue cepheus is very similar to verti ithaca but this car its original owner had ordered the car new specked out everything one of the highest msrp 560s that had been sold through lamborghini atlanta and unfortunately a wrap this would have been probably in 2012 or 13 and so in 2011 or in 2010 when the lp 570 superleggera was announced the owner of this car had wanted to spec a superleggera in that color and that order had been turned down by the factory they weren't ready to let people customize colors with all the carbon fiber panels and things like that and so they told him no and so he spent untold monies putting oem superleggera parts onto this lp560 nose diffuser side skirts wing all the things that he could reasonably to make it into a superleggera so still an lp 560 but one of the best looking lp560s that we've seen the only thing i didn't like is he put a performante sticker along the rocker panel which obviously wasn't pertinent but regardless it was a gorgeous car in a great spec originally and nicely kind of oem plus modded as you might say so having enjoyed the verde ithaca the green 06 guyardo my customer was interested in trading to something a little bit more modern and the jump to an lp 570 at the time would have been huge i mean you're talking about 120 000.06 at the time probably going up to a 250 to 75 000 lp 570 and he wanted something kind of in the middle and so when this car got traded in the blue cepheus car it became the perfect solution and so i did a deal with him to trade into that car and he loved it had a blast and continued to drive it for a couple of years now eventually he we got a used gl63 the what car that my wife drives now but the only one that i recall is selling at lamborghini atlanta we got a used one and he just loved it he thought like i do it's the absolute ultimate family car and so he ended up wanting to get that car and not to get out of the exotic car world i think he's owned several cents but he did trade in the blue cepheus lp 560 on that car and then i immediately sold it to another customer that bought i think six cars in the next year and so that car again stayed local stayed being used taken on mountain drives and stuff like that but i love the way this guy bought cars because he always bought cars that i really liked and again it's not that somebody needed to buy a car that i liked in order to be a good customer but it made it a whole lot easier because when i start thinking about what cars i might be able to source for a new customer that walks in the door saying they want a really uniquely spec gallardo obviously these were kind of my go-to cars and again even though their history wasn't bad my ability to explain their history and the types of owners that it has had and the fact that we knew the car pretty much every mile of its life made it easier for me to sell the cars and so that's why i was able to sell them repeatedly and it's a lot again of where the idea for the vinwiki app came from your ability to document your ability to know the history of a car essentially makes them easier to sell in the future so again i think we did the deal to trade in the guyardo on the gl63 probably around 2014 or so and not long after that there was an article and i think it was in jalopnik but i couldn't find it as i was looking last week i think it got purged but it was that the blue car had caught on fire now we all know that exotic cars particularly ferraris and lamborghinis are exceptionally prone to catching fire we've seen all the pictures and things like that but it was really kind of rare for an lp generation gallardo to catch fire obviously that had very much benefited from all the r d for the audi r8 it had direct injection it was a little bit more stable they'd learned from all the earlier fires and so the cars tended to be a little bit more fireproof but obviously this one wasn't and it was kind of gutting because i loved that car so much and i ended up sending him that link and he was just like oh man i cannot believe that and then about i don't know a year and a half ago i had to do the same thing again because the green car had been bought by somebody that i guess i'm in a facebook group about lamborghinis with and i saw a gallardo that and i knew the owner after him had put a lot of superleggera parts on his side skirts wing lp 560 front bumper and i was like man that looks like the car and i had a memorable event it was la0399 and i was like look punched into vinwicki and sure enough it was that car and the owner was kind of unsure in the post that he had made on facebook about what had happened to his car but obviously it had detonated the bottom end and shot some connecting rods and parts of pistons out and so the engine had failed catastrophically as i'm no stranger to and unfortunately that car was i mean essentially ready to be sold as a roller without an engine which again they can be redone they can be rebuilt and i actually believe that's meant but i remember sending him a screenshot of that post and i was like oh man your other lamborghini got destroyed and he was like oh man i think it actually broke both of our hearts equally that the cars had been kind of eliminated from the pool of prospective cars you might want to buy back because they were all kind of on that list like if they ever came up at the right day at the right price we'd both have thought about buying them again and so who knows but it was just one of those things that i was like man it seems like every lamborghini this guy touches ends up being destroyed in some fantastic way but i you know you could say that he's either the unluckiest lamborghini owner because this thing tends to happen or he's the luckiest that he wasn't the one holding the hot potato when somebody finally got burned planning to buy a used car want to be on the safe side check to see if the mileage has been tampered with it's easy with the carly app and adapter [Music] learn more at mycarly.com

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Length: 11min 59sec (719 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 19 2021