Now like most of us car guys, I like to while away my spare time poking around Craigslist looking to see what hidden treasures I can discover among the clapped-out heaps and other dreck that seems to crop up there. Sometimes I find a real gem of a car with a crappy ad. Sometimes I find a crappy car with a great ad. And sometimes I find stuff like this.
Posted below, the entirety of the ad (in case it goes poof. My comments in BOLD)
Hi! I am saling(Saling? Is that like sailing?) my 1982 olds cutless supreme 4 door. it has a very very clean body. It runs and drives grate(So keep a wedge of Parmesan cheese with you at all times). I am asking $650 firm for it I will not budge from price! It has a 305 V8 with 79k miles. I put a lot of money into it then lost my job!!! The wheels in the pic below are not the wheels that go with it! I am letting it go with the steel wheels that came with the car!!!!!!!!!
The bad
The inspection ran out 10/11(Well that's a great start...)
There is air pockets in the front windshild (The front what? And what do you mean "air pockets"?)
It needs a passanger(Everyone who tries to pass him gets REALLY mad) side control arm (I have the control arm it just needs put on)(Seriously, why does every crappy car on CL come with parts the owner was too lazy to install himself?)
2 springs on the front
all 4 shocks
tires
back window is only plex a glass so it needs replace for inspection
stairing calam(??????) (becase the turn single(Because we haven't figured out how to turn double yet) switch brock(Brock? Brock Lesner? Brock Yates? Brock Samson? What do they have to do with this?) an had to brack (I thought Brack was the name of a cartoon character, not a thing you do to a whatever the hell that was up there) the plastic around it so i could use the turn single)
an the cat has a whole in it (So we get the whole cat? That's good, because I don't want part of a cat. That's just gross.)
You know, this could be the best bad ad ever.
You win 50 internets for the Brack reference.
ReplyDeleteOk, so I fully admit I have a soft spot for old oldsmobiles. My first car was a beautifully aged 88 delta (probably from the same year as this one plus or minus a year or two)... when I got it from my dad, who got it from my grandpa it was almost 20 years old, but still ran really great with its good sized v8, and it had the most comfortable seats ever. The dash had loads of faux wood panneling and the entire car had a very classy feel... I loved the dickens out of it...
ReplyDeleteAll that being said... that has to be the ugliest car I have ever seen...
It looks like it could really use quite a bit of love... >.>