ultimate "was running" ad

While it supposedly ran when pulled, it "most likely needs a rebuild". Read the ad for what's missing.


This is a '46 to '48 flathead engine, it is not complete but includes an extra crankshaft. It was running when pulled, most likely needs a rebuild. Missing is one rod/piston, one cylinder head, and carburetor, air cleaner, generator, distributor, pulleys. I have no idea why these are missing, the garage it was in was very disorganized and they could have been lost or sold with another engine, who knows.

 

Why is it apart if it ran?? Where is he getting this engine from, it sounds likt the guy doesnt really know about it much?

 

and all these salesmen out of work......

It was running the last time it was started, duh.

 

What is the price of s**** again?

 

Here, I'll clean that up for him:
For sale: '46-'48 Flat head block, crank, 7 rods/pistons, one head and oil pan.

-Brad

 

"Engine doesn't run or turn, but ran when new".

 

Forgot to add the extra crank

 

Those double crank 7 cyl flatheads are rare. Better pick it up while you can.

 

"was NOS once"

 

I just want to know how fast it will go in the car I just bought from a guy that said that little spot of rust will polish right out.

 

It's like advertising a hammer that "works great", but it's missing the head.

 

Whenever I need a laugh, I peruse Craig's List or Craig's Helper (nationwide) and read the ads. The one that started this thread is a good example of someone trying to polish a turd. I've seen some that are so atrociously worded and misspelled, that there's no way a normal (my group) individual can understand a dingbusted thing they're saying. "was running when parked" - in 59....in the yard...with no hood...and carb removed a few years later. "needs tuneup" - he's already spent tons of money replacing all the parts that he has tools for (crescent wrench and pliers), and it still misses. "runs out good" - this guy worked for a used car lot at one time - those greaseballs are the only ones that think this is a laudable compliment. "collectable" - you just KNOW who really should be collecting that specimen with flat tires/no tires/etc. Someday these dimwits will realize that just because someone has decided that cars more than 25 yrs old are "cl***ics" or "antiques" doesn't make it valuable. True cl***ics and antiques are only valued by their scarcity and the buying public's reaction to that particular item.

Sorry - got a bit off the taxiway there....my point was just that there are no shortages of ***heads out in the ether who haven't sufficient cerebral activity to have a clue.

dj

 

Guy sounds like one of our Washington politicians,doesn't he? Tells you one thing and then the details makes it totally different.

 

i once saw an ebay listing that proclaimed that the "car was bought new by the original owner"......think about that

 

Yeah like "Ears pierced while you wait"

 

Or one of the more famous ones "never been in the rain"

 

And don't forget "adult driven"

 

If your insinuating that this is my ad your FOS

 

Saw this one last night......ebay#320357341745......made me laugh

 

All the cars for sale in Minnesota came from , AZ,FL,CA and or TX.
Must be a lotta extra cars to have to sell em here.

 

For sale German Light Tank, was running when parked in Russian Swamp........

 

There was a flatbottom boat on CL recently that said it was running when they last used it 3 years ago. "The engine is dry locked, but can be freed up with mystery oil no problem"...HAHAHA

I talked to the guy who's number was on the add, but he was "selling it for a friend who had inhereted it, but mystery oil would take care of it".

WTF is "dry locked", does he mean seized, and how is mystery oil going to get it running "no problem"??? Gotta love these people!

 

marvel mystery oils good stuff.
but mystery oil is that stuff drained into a rusted coffee can behind your lawn mower

'dry locked'? engine must be at the bottom of a marina with the plugs still in it

 

The best ones are the east coast cars. "No rust California car"

 

What kills me on CL are these people who post an ad that reads something like "Car Wanted $****.**" ... you click on it and they tell how they want a car that will p*** inspection and is reliable and all this - and that they have so much money to spend on it. Sometimes they want a sporty car or one newer than a certain year.


Now I've met people partway to look at cars before but never have I expected someone to come to my door with a car for sale. And what stops someone from bringing you a car they patched up so it will look great long enough to sell, and blow up two weeks later? That's why you're supposed to look over and judge cars yourself.

And saying you have X dollars to spend seems like a piss-poor way to try to negotiate a deal. "will you take $700?" "no, best I can do is $1000" - they know you have the $1000 or however much it is... so why go lower?

 

"The last time it ran, it ran"

 

Hey, don't laugh too hard. I've got an axe that was supposedly used by George Washington himself to cut down that cherry tree.

Now, it has had the handle replaced 3 times and the head replaced twice, but it is an authentic axe from GW himself.

 

There's one of those on CL Atlanta, now. Says, "Wanted '50 Ford 4-dr $500". I know moredoors aren't that popular, but wtf is this guy thinking?

 

Yeah, that is a good one. Kinda like saying a child was born by his original mother.

I remember reading one of Kirk F. White's mini-novels in Hemmings for a roadster he was selling. His ad read something like this:

The tired old original roadster body was loving replaced by an original Wescott fibergl*** one.

Now if you've ever read one of Kirk's ads, he likes to "name drop" about every living soul that has gone so far to fart in the p***enger seat. I thought that was funny since the car was being touted as the holy grail of original hot rods.

 

I took it that way the first time through but I read it again and by "The one that started this thread" I believe he was referring to the ad itself not the person. Something just got lost in translation.