misused discriptions that irritate or annoy you

From a current ebay listing for an OT car:

The outside of the car is in perfect cond.There is a scratch in the left quarter panel under the side marker seen in picture.

Bob

 

You better check out the Sport Coupe, Sport!

 

Straight from craigslist this evening...

"This car is in very good condition. It needs a new motor. Its a sporty car, it has halo lights, with cooper tires, it is standard! Im selling it AS IS. Interior is in very good condition as well. Has a sunroof. SERIOUS BUYERS ONLY!"

I made the mistake of thinking "good condition" as possibly running, but hey, it has "halo" lights. Oh brother...

 

Rare is my favorite! A 69 camaro or 65 mustang is not a rare car!! Or unknown condition, but with a $$$$$ asking price. Or complete, minus motor and trans. Or motor for that mater. And running when parked, meaning it was running, but stopped so it sat there parked!

 

Actually, all engines are motors. But all motors aren't engines. Nobody I know says "Rat Engine."

Frank C.

 

T.L.C. = truck loads of cash.

Frank C.

 

I have a 1922 Buick 4 Touring that was running when parked... in 1932... so that must mean I can hop in and go if I charge the battery and fill the tires right?


A couple of years back a friend dropped by with a news paper, there was a classified in it that said "1958 Ford truck, next to no rust, shortbox fleetside, $100" I figured it was a typo, so I called the guy, and he assured me it was what the ad said, and that it really was only $100, but I kept asking him if it was maybe a lot newer, like a 70's Ford, and if the box was actually longer then 6 feet... but he was adamant that he knew what it was. So I drove nearly 2 hours with my dad and brother cramped into my old beater Ford truck to go look, met the guy and we had to follow him for miles down barely used gravel roads, then 5 miles cross country... and I see it sitting under a tree... and it really was a 58 Ford short box fleetside with next to no rust, just a tiny hole in each front fender where the brace is! Once there he dropped the price to $50 because the drivers window had been broken out since he last saw it... what an great guy! He even helped me load it with his tractor and tossed a 27 Essex 3 window coupe body in the box of the 58 for free! That was such a cool sight going down the road with my old Ford pulling the 58 on my trailer with a 27 Essex in the box!

 

Ads that list the price as "Firm" are usually anything but. That's a code word for "I suck at dealing and will cave in immediately when presented with a ridiculously low-ball offer. I have serious self-esteem issues, too, and I pray that my "Firm" will scare you out of trying to squeeze my price down."

Frank C.

 

Same as most people, I hate basic descriptions that are spelled wrong, when a little checking of the name plate or badges would clarify it and not make the advertiser seem retarded.

"Rear" items that should be "rare" items. Gives it a whole new meaning!

"Definitely" is not spelled "defiantly"!

 

Reading 1964CountrySedan's post about the Craigslist description of the sporty car with "halo" lights reminded me of the guy, a few years back, that was showing me his '39 Plymouth truck and telling me about his "Video" (aka VDO) gauges. Along the same lines but a little OT, a buddy that's a car guy recently told me about a home computer problem he was having ... said he was going to have to "re-floormat" the PC to correct the problem!

 

It annoys me when people spell "descriptions" wrong. ha ha just kidding.

 

"let me ax you a guestion"
distributor called a "dizzy"??
turn signals called "blinkers"
remotes called "clickers"

 

Your username says otherwise!! *negative*Matt! haha

So for my turn.....
"Need this gone ASAP" .... means get this piece of shit out of my driveway before the old lady kills me!

 

3 out of those 4 drive me nuts....However I find myself using the term "dizzy" on occasion.

 

12 volt chev rear ends and pillowless impalas!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I once saw a craigslist description that said the truck used to be a manual transmission but they converted it to standard.

 

"For sell"
"Must sale"
"Irregardless"

 

Well, I beg to differ...

My 1963 International crew cab PU had 61,000 original miles on it when I bought it. I'm assuming it had 161,000 when I bought it in 1980. Knowing what I do about International Trucks, that could have been 261,000 miles. I drove it another 100,000 miles and rolled it right back around. So when I sold it, the total mileage was... 61,000 on the speedo with no tampering. It did still have the original miles on it PLUS my personal miles. But I don't know the Actual Mileage because I drove it 2 years with a busted speedo cable. I'm guessing you could add 25,000 assumed miles to the speedo.... but that was a 1963 and with no 6th digit, it just said 61,000, just like years before when I bought it. I told the guy, "I'm guessing half a mil"

 

Well one that really gets me going is every limp ass that bolts on a few pieces on there engines...lame ass chrome aircleaner and covers some crap small tube headers
and flex pipe to a set of shit mufflers claims over 500 hp and should run 10s lol not even if they pushed it off a cliff...same cliff i want to push them off ..other than that i am pretty easy to get along with

 

You answered before I could ax you---

 

"Clone" or any other meaning that they can come up with....
An ad to sell a car without a photo.
Easy restoration.
"most of the hard work has been done"

 

Unless you adopt bad spelling as an ideological act of subversion ...

 

This puts life in a whole new perspective.

 

What gets to me is when you look at a car and ask the owner a few questions about it, he immediately thinks you may be buying it and won't leave you alone. Recently I saw a car on the internet for sale and asked the owner to email me some pictures. After seeing the pics. I was no longer interested but the owner called me three times trying to sell me his car. I tried to be nice and not tell him his car was a POS. If a prospective buyer wants a car, he'll call back.

 

1957 Chevrolet Belair "Sports Coupe'

 

I also hate seeing L@@K in an ad, but if they put in "WOW" then I'm all in...

btw, there are 2 door sedans.

 

Rare.

 

Even worse, "excepting all offers"

 

Have you noticed how often someone on TV will say the victim was struck with a 'tire tool'?
Except for some HAMBers and people over 50 years old most Americans have never seen a tire tool unless they work at a tire store.

 

Advertising a 1974 Dart 4 door with a slant 6 as a "Rare classic muscle car". Saying that this "classic" rusted out Dart is worth more because it's "numbers matching"... who cares, its a 225cid 4 door car.

Oh, and I have been known to spell Chevy "Shivvey" to irritate my GM loving buddies.

Laine.