Nomination for CL Ad of the Year

I wanna go look at the car just to meet the guy....

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/3020122463.html

Wow that is awesome!

Awesome because it has proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, and a description of the vehicle?

If he really wants to sale the car he would have included some photos.

There is a link to pics.

Neat car, fair price, cool story. Someone should buy it. But not me. :-(

Incidentally, I will never, ever, ever accept the usage of "sale" in verb form. I.E., "Need to sale soon." If you want the word "sale" in your add for search hits, just type 'For Sale'.

You can go "sailing", but don't try to "sale" me your car.

failboat wrote: Awesome because it has proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, and a description of the vehicle? If he really wants to sale the car he would have included some photos.

There's a link to photos at the end of the listing.

There's a car that needs $10K in restoration, but will never be worth more than $5K.

When I read the ad I figured it was either a scam, or the car had already sold, I mean ONLY $1500.

Then I saw the pics. jstein77 pretty much says it, it will need quite a bit of work to get back to showroom condition and it won't be worth what you put into it. BUT, it has the potential to be a decent car.

(Leave it to Ford, in the mid '60s building a big block equipped car, then making you add-on power brakes and steering. I would imagine the front brakes are drums, too.)

volvoclearinghouse wrote: Incidentally, I will never, ever, ever accept the usage of "sale" in verb form. I.E., "Need to sale soon." If you want the word "sale" in your add for search hits, just type 'For Sale'. You can go "sailing", but don't try to "sale" me your car.

Yeah, is this a thing now? I see it constantly on craigslist. I was assuming it was mostly non-native English speakers, but it pops up a lot.

In reply to ShadowSix:

Its definitely a "thing", a thing I see a lot now. So much so that I wonder if the people who do it are doing it to intentionally piss me off.

integraguy: you pretty much described every muscle car ever made up until the late 60's: manual drum brakes, manual steering, AM radio- if you're lucky. But back then, men drove cars. And the women they drove around weighed less than power steering and brakes.

New seats, fix the tailight, find a good used bumper, hose it off/vacuum it out, and fix the brakes, and you've got a halfway decent driver there. And something you won't see at every cruise-in.

You'll also grow a massive left leg from using that big, hard-sprung mechanical clutch.

How many Comets came with a 390 and a 3 on the tree? Everybody is right about the investment never returning, but sometimes, you just gotta say, " What the berkeley."

All I saw was, "Wlifkj ael nkf jfj zlsekj DANZIG kdk kejrjkr lkdfj ...."