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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Willing_Jeweler1237 on 2023-09-02 16:26:38.

My grandfather left me his old car when he passed away. It is a convertible 1968 Dodge Dart.

It was beautiful. I loved riding around in it when I was a kid. My grandfather loved that car. We used to work on it together.

My brother was annoyed when I got the car. He felt that he should have gotten it. I’m sure he would have sold it. He inherited cash.

In July he asked me to borrow the car for a road trip. I said no. He begged he had a girl he wanted to impress. I said no.

He got our parents involved. We are both adult men in our thirties. But he is their favorite. They said I was being an asshole and that he should be allowed to borrow my car.

I said I would do it on the condition that he wrote me a bill of sale for his car. It is just a 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee. I said that if I got my car back in the same condition as I lent it out then we could tear up the bill of sale.

I guess that you can imagine. The dumbass had no idea how that old car handled. It is a boat. Plus it had a manual transmission. And if you floor it you can watch the fuel gauge go down.

He lost control of it and sideswiped a mountain. He had to get it towed back. He, very emphatically, did not impress the girl.

I took the car to a mechanic for an estimate.

You don’t want to know.

I told my brother that he just bought himself a car. I made up a bill of sale and sold it to him for a dollar. I then went and registered my new jeep.

My Dart wasn’t my daily driver. I have a truck and my wife has a car. But I loved working on my Dart with my kid. She is young but it was going to be hers one day.

Well now she has a Jeep Grand Cherokee. My brother is livid because he used his inheritance to buy it for cash. My parents are pissed off that I would be like this to their poor injured baby boy. I’m furious that I don’t have my car any more.

My parents and brother came over to yell at me for stealing his car. I told him to call the cops. We could let them sort it out. Probably bad timing that my daughter pulled up in her new car at that moment.

My family has been calling me about it. As soon as I tell them what he did to the Dart they are on my side.

AITA?