The Cynic's guide to Craigslist car buying

[Homerr]

17.  Show winner  - Won people's choice at the car show down at the local pub.  You swept the voting with 5 of your friends voting for your car and you walked away with a $2 trophy.  You're a special snowflake.

[Tilar]

16) Ran when parked.....(yea, 40 years ago, it's frozen solid now from sitting outside unprotected in the weeds)

yeah, Didn't they all run till they were parked?

[Ghoste]

And don't you love "for sale by owner"?  Who else was going to be selling it?

[Homerr]

Come on Ghoste, that leads straight to:

18.  Selling for a friend  Friend lives in the 1800's and has no internet.  Please excuse my crappy cell phone pics, I was only able to look at the car quickly.  I'll try to describe it as best I can:  4 wheels, motor, and it's blue.  Send your questions to me, I'll try to get in touch with my friend to answer them.

[Ghoste]

Haha, yeah and hopefully you'll offer enough to let me convince my complete stranger friend to sell that car I spotted beside his house.

[6spd68]

These are the adds I've always avoided at all costs.  Those cars are usually overpriced anyway.

[Homerr]

I always figured they are some guy that looked at an unadvertised car, took a couple pics, and then advertised it himself with markup.  If you want it he'll buy it for you from the 'friend'.

[Cncguy]

I think restored actually means removed from garage then re stored in garage