"daender" (daender)
05/12/2015 at 23:35 • Filed to: None
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"daender" (daender)
05/12/2015 at 23:35 • Filed to: None | 10
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One !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! I bolded stuff that made me laugh.
1992 Miata, 249K miles, 5 speed transmission. This car is ugly. No, BEYOND ugly. Look at the pictures and lower your expectations by 50%. Most of it has been repainted, poorly. The back window is non-existent. Like, gone. Replacement piece on ebay for $50 or so, if you are looking at the car, you probably already know this. The bodywork sucks, and it’s filthy. I’m talking do not take this girl home to mama, filthy. I kinda vacuumed it out, but whatever is still hiding/living under the seats comes with it. Tires are round and black, and don’t match. Heck, the wheels don’t even match. All that said, it runs remarkably well, given the abuse the rest of the car has taken. Goes, stops, turns. What more could you ask for in a $900 car? Has your new driver let his/her grades slip and still thinks he/she is getting a car for graduation? This is the car for you. Imagine the disappointment when you toss them the key to this pile. Wife or GF wants a cute little convertible? Not for you. You’d never, ever, get out of the dog house. Beater level transportation that would double as a mud bog star on the weekend? Oh yeah, this is it. Lemons racer, Chump racer, better check with the HOA before you bring this one to the house. Need an entry for a demo derby? The competition would tremble with fear because you obviously DO NOT CARE. Get the picture?
OK, here are the ground rules. Scammers, go away, now. Cash in front of me talks loudest, so don’t even make an offer until you’ve seen the car in person. Do not offer me $400 via text, you will be ignored, and I’ll cut the car up before I’d do that (I will, really). [Ender: yes, yes he will do this]
Of course it’s a cash deal, so bring CASH MONEY.
The only trades that would be considered better go BANG, be of appropriate value, and be something cool.
No livestock, no beater Civics, no small children, period.
Text me at the number on the contact button above for best results. $900 OBO. Steve
Matthew Phillips
> daender
05/12/2015 at 23:42 |
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i really wish my craigslist ads were this funny... Mine are just honest lacking humor.
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daender
> Matthew Phillips
05/12/2015 at 23:46 |
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I know the guy who’s selling it, he owns a shop catering just to Mazdas (Miatas and v8-swapped RX-7s), he posts funny stuff like this once in a blue moon.
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> daender
05/12/2015 at 23:48 |
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If only I had 900 bucks and lived in the area already.
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Matthew Phillips
> daender
05/12/2015 at 23:50 |
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I wish he was selling this in January lol, I would have bought it XP
Buy him a pizza for me
Birddog
> daender
05/12/2015 at 23:56 |
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“Do not offer me $400 via text, you will be ignored, and I’ll cut the car up before I’d do that (I will, really). [Ender: yes, yes he will do this]”
I knew someone like this. It was pre-Internet. His deal was usually I’ll sell it to you for $1000 or I scrap it. The guy would Honest-To-God take a loss in scrapping a car than cut anyone he knew a deal. (It was a 1953 Chevy that I got to watch Victory Auto Wreckers tow away..)
Good ad and NP. I hope he doesn’t have to cut it up.
MLGCarGuy
> daender
05/13/2015 at 00:05 |
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I should buy this to learn to drive in. If I hit something, well who cares.
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daender
> MLGCarGuy
05/13/2015 at 00:28 |
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MLGCarGuy
> daender
05/13/2015 at 00:48 |
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Buying it requires $900, and I don’t have $900.
6Cylinder
> daender
05/13/2015 at 01:48 |
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No livestock accepted for trade :(
That's all I have...
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> daender
05/13/2015 at 07:26 |
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I love this! Most honest craigslist ad ever? If I wanted a Miata, I’d be all over this. YOu can tell that this one has a soul.
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SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> MLGCarGuy
05/13/2015 at 07:26 |
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$900 is the asking price. Almost every car on CL in this price range will sell for 75% of the asking price or perhaps lower.
Turbonium2K
> daender
05/13/2015 at 07:52 |
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I find something strangely charming about this battered roadster, something about the fact that it’s covered in dents and scratches and has dirty rims makes it even more endearing to me than a clean NA Miata.
I feel like this car would end up being my Herbie, getting me into all the right wrong situations, somehow improving my life through it all.
I’ve never wanted a Miata more than I do right now honestly. I wonder if I’d even fit in one anymore? I barely fit in my dad’s when I was 15, now I’m 300 lbs and 6 feet of 21 year old... XD
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MLGCarGuy
> SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
05/13/2015 at 09:09 |
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*offers craigslist-typical $1*
shop-teacher
> daender
05/13/2015 at 09:17 |
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This is hilarious! I’d be tempted to wave $600 in front of him, and go rally crossing in it.
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> daender
05/13/2015 at 16:15 |
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Cosmetically trashed, but mechanically sound... less than a grand... Sounds like the perfect donor.
Wish I had the money. most of the removable bodywork gets thrown in the trash, and the unitized body shell and doors will be modified and re-skinned anyway. No window in the top? the top is gone anyway. Interior sucks? it will get replaced with a 93 LE red leather and aftermarket classically-restyled interior.
It would only need to go, turn, and stop enough to get it home and get the chassis stripped down and ready for shipment to Simpson Design for the roof and rear bodywork to get installed.
While it is gone, maybe some engine re-build work, or a built 2.0 Liter Flyin’ Miata stroker engine... Perhaps even an aluminum LS V8 conversion. As much as I think those are a bit over-played... there would be so little Mazda left, that a GM engine would not be out of place... and there is a history of GM-designed Buick aluminum-block pushrod V8s, licensed to british manufacturers for Rovers, MGBs, TVRs, and more... that there is historical precedence.