‘”I don’t know what this lady is talking about,” George said Friday. “I certainly wouldn’t sell a car with prior damage.”–Tom George, the owner of Thorson GMC Pontiac in Pasadena, Calif’
Price’ winner claims car was in wreck
By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON Fri Dec 14, 6:24 PM PST
Associated Press
The price was right but the car was wrong, according to a lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court. In June 2004, a contestant on “The Price is Right” guessed that a sports car was worth $33,495 and left the stage thinking she had just won a new 2004 Pontiac GTO Coupe.
Donna Tillman on Thursday filed suit against the game show, CBS Broadcasting, the auto dealership that provided the vehicle and the transportation company that delivered it. Tillman alleges the GTO Coupe she received was not new, as she had been promised, and had been in an accident.
Tillman competed on the popular game show on June 28, 2004. Thorson GMC Pontiac and Precise Auto Transport delivered the car to her home in Washington state on September 13, 2004, according to the lawsuit.
When Tillman took the car in for service the next year, she was told that it had suffered structural damage to the frame and front end, “but the repair work was such that an obvious effort had been made to conceal or hide the damage,” the suit alleges.
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