Selling Things...

[oldmansmonte]

35 years as an LEO and you write like this? You also allow your Grandson to operate unattended on the internet? Yeah, I am the one sitting here feeling ashamed of myself...

Come on... you gotta be trolling us right?

I actually feel dumber having read that guys post.

 

[Longroof79]

Want another amusing story Jack ? How about this ?
Some guys on this forum know that I live on the eastern end of Long Island. Just getting off is a gigantic pain in the *ss. And it costs $$.
In 2005 I saw an ad on CL for a Malibu coupe. My son was a teenager and at the time and I thought it might be neat for him to have his own little project. In a way Im glad he grew up into not really being into cars at all.
The Malibu was an 81. It was in Providence RI. There was a single photo in the ad and it didnt look too bad. I figure if it doesnt look bad it might be worth going to look at it. If it looks like sh*t in the photo its only going to be worse in person.
So I called the guy selling the car. He was a hairdresser. Yup. I wont go further on that. Draw your own conclusions.
The car was purchased by his father brand new. He was making enough to have the car redone for his dad and when it was finished his father didnt want it. Nice huh ?
Guy says the car was rust free and he just had it "restored" by a local body shop. He told me to call the owner of the shop and they would tell me everything that was done. I called. Body shop owner tells me they had the car for two years and they gave the guy a good price because they used it as a fill in. Only rust was on the hood at the corner. He said he tried to get the guy to spring for a repop hood but the guy didnt want to spend the money so they welded in a patch.
The only other thing was they painted the car the dark gray from a Ford truck instead of the original silver. I could live with that.

So that Sat. I took my 2500 crew cab, hooked up my open trailer and drove up to RI with my buddy, his son and my son. It was pouring. We get to the guys house and the cars sitting in his garage with the door wide open. Of course my sons all excited. I walk over to the drivers door and every bit of rubber wipe is missing. The quarter window rubber is partially gone. Paint was a good 20 footer. I open the drivers door and the bottom is like Swiss cheese. The guy opened the trunk while I was looking at the door. I look inside the trunk and the shop lap welded patches into both quarters. The lap weld wasnt the issue though. They left the rotted jagged old panel ! Never cut it off. Unbelievable.

Told my son to go back to the truck. I didnt say a single word to the owner. I just looked at him and walked away. Got back in the truck and drove all the way back with nothing. I have a good friend that would have probably beat that little hairdressers *ss. It wasnt a good ride home.
Ah, those were the days ! The things you do for the love of a hobby !

Back in 1989 I drove to a little tonw called Beatyville in KY to look at a 72 SS Nova. That was a wasted trip too. I really need a different hobby. LOL

Mich,
I can appreciate what a bummer it is to get off the island, and traffic doesn't seem to get any better...then, having to go through Queens and the Van Wyck distressway. I miss those days...NOT!
What a waste of a trip. It goes to show you what ignorant, no nothing boneheads there are out there. You certainly did practice constraint. I think I might've decked him...and then walked away.

 

[mikester]

Look I appreciate ur input Motörhead Mike but the F u is a little too friggin much for this site or who the heck ever put it there. I have a 7 yr old grandson that likes cars especially here for some reason & brought ur foul mouth crap to my attention. I made the mistake of letting him read thru here which I WANT DO AGAIN because of a foul mouth who ever decides to post a F u! I don't appreciate ur or whomever language & yes I have heard worse being a LEO for 35 yrs dealing with the vermin of this world & my man I am not saying u r but that's uncalled for!
So if u would plz take the foul distasteful redneck verbiage our plz! If others out there disagree & as u may it's ur right but that goes to show whomever how ignorant we can be as anyone can read. So sir plz take into consideration if u will that & I assure u I want let my grandson read such vulgar crap from here in fact we want read from here any longer if the administrators of this excellent site condone such language in an open forum. What is said in private stays among those walls. I am really disappointed in this sir! As any other derogatory comments can be directed to me as I don't care but I ask u sir or whomever think of those who read these forums as not take a liking to distasteful vulgar & unwanted language! If u want to tell me or whomever to F off that's ur privileged
But thank u for reading this complaint sir!

First thing I would like to say is Im not trying to take anyones side here. As a parent that raised 2 kids that are now fully grown I can understand what youre saying to a point. But keep this in your mind as you let your SEVEN YEAR OLD grandson read posts on forums that are usually read by adults. Im not saying that foul language is acceptable but a child has no business on a forum like this. Maybe a teenager. Not a 7 year old.

 

[Longroof79]

Any parent, or grandparent for that matter, should monitor the content before letting a child look at it. and should by all means look over their shoulders to make sure that what they're looking at is acceptable for them to read.
I admit, the language can become rather raunchy at times, but we're adults here. If you find the language upsetting and unacceptable then perhaps this isn't your cup of tea.

 

[pagrunt]

Here is a throw back on buying a car the old fashion way, driving around spotting the old for sale (sell, sail, Sal, cell,...😛) Back in '95 I bought a '72 Monte off a guy in the Brighton Heights section of Pittsburgh & thought it was sweet deal for $300. The guy said he need the money for an engine for his Buick. Asked what he needed (my buddy had several SBC's in the garage I could of bartered with) & said he need an Olds. So a call to co-worker from PepBoys to see what he had & scored an '71 350 in gold for $100. Make the deal, head to get the 350 that was very well sealed for storage (he is a mechanic by trade) & drop it off. I'm happy, he is happy (for the time) and I get the title. 6 months later he shows up at the parts counter & I was there. Asked how the car was coming along and if I put the 283 I was building in it yet, I told him is wasn't. This lead to a body bolt out of his pocket & said that this was what he found in the 350 after it failed just on 1st start after he put it in (a perfect usable bolt I might add.) I asked if I could see it & headed to the service side of the store to show the guy I got the engine from. He laughed, said yea right, then asked where the engine was so he could see it. I go back to him to ask to see the damage (we both promised a good engine said we could get another from the stash of Olds engines that the co-worker had.) The guy said it was gone, he got another 350 but I could have the dead Olds 307 when I gave him his $300. The co-worker jumped in, asked why he dumped it got another 350 when we would of got him another he started to stumble on his words. Then told the guy he recorded the engine VIN cause it was his habit when selling running engines to make sure his *ss was covered (he has been burned in the past on an engine he sold.) At this point there was several other co-works around to see what was going on. The guy couldn't come up with an answer & hauled *ss out the door. Found out later he blew the 283 in his '66 Nova & was looking for another one. The guy thought he could use the offer to replace the 350 as leverage on my 283 (the 283 ended up being a 307 after I started the rebuild.) I learned never to promise to replace an engine I sale-keep it as is, copy VIN & any ID numbers on an engine I sale, the general public are *ssh*les when it comes private sales.

 

[Clutch]

I'm dealing with Craigslist now trying to buy a welder and he's not answering and not calling back!

Update guys I was trying all day to get ahold of the seller worked on my 78 Cutlass to kill time because the add said it was 10 minutes from the car in South River. Got to a point I had enough and checked the map in the add drove there to try and find it pull into a small repair shop parking lot and try him again. That's when I get a text he wants more money! And lots of people want it and someone from NY is paying extra for it tomorrow. I swallow my anger and text back well I'm here now and I have cash! Balls in your court. Turns out it's his repair shop and he's inside lol I thought oh this guy's about to meet me! I got him to open the door and told him look I have your asking price that's it with that I started the machine and tried it out and it worked fine so with a little bit of politely calling him on what he was trying to do I bought it. But in his add it said he had a hoist to load it.......he changed me $20 to load it with his lift and I had to do it! Anyway I got my engine driven welder for the square body crew now and I'm happy with it for the price but what a pain in the a$$

 

[Clutch]

I'm dealing with Craigslist now trying to buy a welder and he's not answering and not calling back!

Update guys I was trying all day to get ahold of the seller worked on my 78 Cutlass to kill time because the add said it was 10 minutes from the car in South River. Got to a point I had enough and checked the map in the add drove there to try and find it pull into a small repair shop parking lot and try him again. That's when I get a text he wants more money! And lots of people want it and someone from NY is paying extra for it tomorrow. I swallow my anger and text back well I'm here now and I have cash! Balls in your court. Turns out it's his repair shop and he's inside lol I thought oh this guy's about to meet me! I got him to open the door and told him look I have your asking price that's it with that I started the machine and tried it out and it worked fine so with a little bit of politely calling him on what he was trying to do I bought it. But in his add it said he had a hoist to load it.......he changed me $20 to load it with his lift and I had to do it! Anyway I got my engine driven welder for the square body crew now and I'm happy with it for the price but what a pain in the a$$

35 years as an LEO and you write like this? You also allow your Grandson to operate unattended on the internet? Yeah, I am the one sitting here feeling ashamed of myself...

Come on... you gotta be trolling us right?

What's an leo?

 

[pagrunt]

What's an leo?

Law Enforcment Officer

 

[Clutch]

Law Enforcment Officer

Oh ok that makes sense now lol

 

[Clutch]

Oh ok that makes sense now lol

What's wrong with cop? Same amount of letters and everyone knows what it means.

Oh wait is that one of those political correct things? Because this is Jersey ever see Jay and silent Bob lol