http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...749326982&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK:MESELX:IT Must be rare factory mistake. How can someone not know what kind of car they have? Don't they have a registration or title? Or....duh....read what is on the car???
The name of the car should appear underneath the owner's name, in this case probably a guy called Iam N. Idiot...
People are just plain stupid sometimes.:spank: Heres an 84 Caddy with the rare 502 V8 Buick ou: http://spokane.craigslist.org/cto/2385490239.html
...or just misinformed and won't listen to reason. At one car show there was this old guy (who claimed he used to be a GM mechanic back in the day) who showed up with his entourage and firmly told me that my Electra had a warmed over 396 in it that Buick just called a 401 because "everyone knows that all engines in GM cars are Chevy engines"... He then proceeded to call down the car and pick out the things that were wrong with my car. So I asked him what he drove, and he told me he drove a newer Toyota, and didn't have an old car, and had never restored one. He said he knew what he was talking about because he was selling insurance when he retired. That's when I just sighed, and went back to my Hemmings that I was reading when so rudely interrupted, "Yeah, okay...whatever...no skin off of my a$$ if you die stupid..." You want to hit people like that, but the law and basic civil decency doesn't allow it; - I'm sure he would have looked much better underneath the Electra.
my pet peeve is people, ahem, thinking they are smarter than others simply because they know more about cars, and worse, being amused by mocking said other person 25 years ago I had a summer job in college working at an auto parts store. Quite often I could not answer the customers' questions. Another guy working there making minimum wage like I was, a gearhead type, often made fun of me...saying things like "what's the matter college boy, don't you know anything ?" OK so he knew more about cars. I now have a good career, a nice house, etc...and that sarcastic know-it-all is probably still working as clerk at the auto parts store. My point ? Look in the mirror and recognize your own shortcomings before mocking others. It doesn't matter whether the other guy knows you're doing it.
You need to lighten up. The fact that people list an ad that's wrong is actually something that can become a very big deal. It's false advertising whether it was intended or not. I bet if you just bought that Caddy because you always dreamed of dropping a ramjet 502 into one of those you would be pretty pissed to find it has an Olds 307 under the hood. When you list something for sale you're trying to sell a product. There are laws in place that regulate the sale of products. Private party laws don't excuse you from false advertising. I've bought and sold plenty of things online and the best bet is "if you don't know for sure, than admit it and let someone more knowledgable decide" Sometimes it costs you a sale, but it'll keep you out of court. That Cutlass is a beautiful car and if I were in the market I may have checked it out, but that's because I know what it is. If I tried to fix it and none of the parts for a Buick or an Olds worked on that motor I'd be pretty pissed.
max...OK so the guy isn't that knowledgeable...the posts here aren't intended to merely point that out. The only reason this ad was shown in the first place was to mock the owner. I won't lose sleep over it...but it's immature.
OK, I started it and I guess I'm an immature 57 yr old but come on, how can someone own a car and even modify it and not know what brand it is???
Doesn't matter. Mocking is mocking. Here's a scenario..would you think it's wrong for all the neighborhood kids to laugh at you amongst themselves for being the fat guy on the block, or the bald guy, or the guy that drives the sh*tty car even if you didn't know you were the butt of their jokes ? Or even better, would you think it's wrong for all the 57 year olds to mock you for the same reasons ?
I just thought it was kinda funny and surprising. It was not meant to mock the PERSON directly. Sorry, I'll mind my own business....:idea2:
I know i wouldnt be happy if i ordered a cheeseburger at a restaurant & got a tuna sandwich because the cook didnt know what he was selling:laugh:
There's a difference between making fun of someone for something they can't control and making fun of someone for not bothering to try. The problem with this country right now is that we aren't allowed to make fun of someone for being ignorant. Maybe if we had higher standards people would live up to them instead of living down to them. There's a difference between idiocy and ignorance. Idiocy is a medical condition and should be handled with care. These people can not function at a "normal" level no matter how hard they try. Ignorance comes from being too lazy or self centered to care. Someone not bothering to figure out what it is that they're selling before hand is ignorance. If they were an idiot than they wouldn't have been able to post pictures since that's the most involved part of the process. If you can't remember what kind of car it is than go read the steering wheel, or air bag cover, or dash pad, or hood emblem, or grille, or trunklid, or door sticker, or emission sticker, or registration card, or insurance card, or title. There's no reason for not knowing other than being illiterate, in which case how did they post the ad? I just hope if I ever post an ad that's so obviously wrong that someone reams me for it. I'd rather that than to have someone buy the item and then make my life heck for it not being what they expected.
For all we know it could be the guy's wife or secretary that listed it. But, you'd be surprised to see how many people out there don't really know what they're driving because it really isn't important to them. We've all been there at one point very early on; learning something or hearing something from someone that was wrong but still accepted as gospel anyway. Just remember how many stupid or ill-informed things you probably learned from members of your own family when you were a kid. I'd cut the guy some slack, for all we know he bought the car or got it in a poker game, who knows? Still, he could have taken an extra 5 minutes to read the title, and that's still worth ridiculing.
Same deal with my son's '70 Dart. He got sideswiped and the car was totaled. We bought the salvage and fixed it. When he went to the DMV to register it as a salvaged car, the gal looked at the VIN tag and wrote the car out as being a Chrysler, because the tag says Chrysler Corp. So now, he's driving a Chrysler Dart. One of a kind! Any takers? She wouldn't even look at the rest of the car, where it has DODGE written all over it. :spank:
