How To Interpret Car Sale Ads

[turbine68rt]

 

[eldubb440]

it's all true

 

[RemCharger]

Never gets old

 

[kiwigtx]

In Real Estate..... if the advert says they have quiet neighbours...that means the house is next to a cemetery.

 

[66 Sat]

Good paintwork for age......I cut and polished the paint and it came up good

Original patina......I cut and polished the paint and it didn't come up good

 

[turbine68rt]

Must sell..........wife is packing her bags unless I unload some toys.

Fast Car................beat the crap out of it daily.

Needs Paint...........I tried painting it in the driveway with 2 six packs and JD in me.

All Original.............too cheap to replace bad parts.

Has Rust..............only where there is metal.

 

[WileE]

In Real Estate..... if the advert says they have quiet neighbours...that means the house is next to a cemetery.

What's wrong with that ? At least ya don't have to worry about late-night parties............. Maybe.

 

[turbine68rt]

Barn Find............manure smell is a dead giveaway

Trans Fluid Is Good...........just topped off with a new gallon of ATF

Brakes need work..........metal scraping sound is getting louder

Never driven in snow.......won't move more than 6 inches with bald tires anyway

New Carpet.............left over shag remnant from first apartment in '78

 

[68BabyBlue]

In the days before the internet, when I bought cars advertised in Hemmings, I always figured the shorter the narrative, the better the car. Two GTXs, an Imperial, and a Chrysler 300F all turned out to be good deals. The ads listed color, options, and price, nothing more.

 

[WileE]

Back in the day in the NYC metro area, we bought/sold our cars in the Buy-Lines press. All it took was a "tiny, little ad" and you found the car of your dreams.

 

[turbine68rt]

In the days before the internet, when I bought cars advertised in Hemmings, I always figured the shorter the narrative, the better the car. Two GTXs, an Imperial, and a Chrysler 300F all turned out to be good deals. The ads listed color, options, and price, nothing more.

I always liked paging through the Auto Locator in the early 80's.

 

[kiwigtx]

In the days of the printed newspaper...the Saturday morning Herald over here was the one everyone scoured before 6am if they were bargain hunting. All the adverts were taken over the phone by the paper - or you could write in with an advert. One I remember well was a Ferrari for sale - and the it must have been a phone-in ...... it was supposed to be glowing about the car including the classic line "One fastidious owner"

When the paper came out it was spotted easily and read "One fast idiot owner" absolutely true.

Other spelling errors or 'typos' were common to see every week ....like Chevies with a 12 Volt diff.

One guy advertised a 69 Dodge Charger back in the 80's and his contact details read like "Genuine enquiries call *******, all others go to Helen Waite."