Face it, you're a Schlep.

I thought this fit in just right here.

The auto industry needs a return to honesty like this in its ads.

They need to build cars for schleps too: manual transmission, manual windows, manual locks, manual seats, manual mirrors, manual trunks, manual seatbelts, manual steering...

Cheap and light for us schleps!

I can't wait until my GRM Schlep stickers arrive.....

RossD wrote: They need to build cars for schleps too: manual transmission, manual windows, manual locks, manual seats, manual mirrors, manual trunks, manual seatbelts, manual steering... Cheap and light for us schleps!

exactly!!!!

The question is: are any of those ads real, or are they photoshops?

stuart in mn wrote: The question is: are any of those ads real, or are they photoshops?

I believe they're from a movie.

I know the Volvo and Jag ones are from Crazy People. Never seen the Honda one before, if I had to guess, I'd lean towards National Lampoon

In reply to eastsidemav:

According to Hooniverse, the Honda ad is real. Or at least it was represented as such.

Now, my colloquial Yiddish is pretty rusty, but I think the word they're looking for is "schlub." "Schlep" typically refers to carrying/lugging something, or an arduous (like tedious, not epic) journey.

I thought this was Schlep

Negative. I am a (sharp dressed) mensch.

Dude, ZZ Top in Cosby sweaters in front of a pro-street rod - doesn't get a lot more '80s than that.

alex wrote: Dude, ZZ Top in Cosby sweaters in front of a pro-street rod - doesn't get a lot more '80s than that.

Pro Street Rod?

that's the freakin ELIMINATOR.. the car that inspired tens of thousands of people to think that34 Fords were cool street rod material...

novaderrik wrote:

alex wrote: Dude, ZZ Top in Cosby sweaters in front of a pro-street rod - doesn't get a lot more '80s than that.

Pro Street Rod? that's the freakin ELIMINATOR.. the car that inspired tens of thousands of people to think that34 Fords were cool street rod material...

Indeed. That car might be single-handedly responsible for my love of 1930s automobiles. (I have to admit, though, that Cadzilla is a much more impressive custom.)

... and a lot to do w/ legs

So is that a sign I am supposed to be driving a Jag?

fasted58 wrote: ... and a lot to do w/ legs

My "new" '87 S-10 has manual steering, manual brakes, manual windows and a 4-speed. It doesn't get much more basic than that.

yep, I schlep.

Only here can a thread start with a Z600 and end with the Eliminator and long legs.

In reply to Appleseed:

ZZ Top seemed so old back then.

Now I look and think how young they really were. :(

In reply to Alex: I'm not the go-to guy for colloquial Yiddish either, so I defer to Mr. Woody Allen. In his one-act play "Death Knocks," after Nat Ackerman [spoiler alert!] successfully bargains with Death for at least one more day of life, he phones his best friend, Moe, and describes the encounter, concluding with, "But, Moe, he's such a schlep!"