I have used eBay since’97 and at times made my living selling vintage electronics on there. 80% usually does the trick on Best Offer listings. 

I was selling a couple of graphics cards on eBay for £50 each. This guy messages me trying super hard to haggle me down and then throws in this line “I gotta try ‘cos I’m a hustler”. We still laugh at this.

Exactly. “I’ve got a guy coming out to see the car on Thursday, says he’s ready to pay what I’m asking, so unless you can offer me something very close to what I’m asking and can meet me on Wednesday, I’m not really inclined to negotiate at this point.”

 Cash or trade for guns, 420,or ATV

That’s my pet peeve too. Like, my best offer is what I listed it at. Make me an offer

Or 2 guns

I’ve found that the universal currency for Craigslist is dirt bikes. No matter what you’re selling, someone offers you a dirt bike for it.

I will take the 60%ers over the ‘Whats your best price?’ people. At least a 60%er makes an offer. More than once I have put a vehicle up on CL only to have someone reply that they are interested, but ‘Whats your best price?’ And then they get insulted when I restate my listing price with the caveat that I won’t…

It’s the holidays. “How quickly can we phone in actual work and keep readers interested? Oh I know, share a few already made Youtube videos!”

It’s weight, but also rolling resistance, and the power being delivered.

The effect can be replicated pretty easy. Bulb, resistor, bulb, resistor, bulb, ground. 

My uncle also had one... My cousin and I would fight over who would save up the money to buy it off him first. Neither of us did. Engine locked up and he sold it. Probably cheap. One of the nicer looking vehicles he ever owned.

I have to agree about the braking systems on those era fords. They’re all strange and all different across brands/models. We ended up going with a Wilwood setup for a client on similar era Mercury because it was easier. Came out pretty nice but took an entire summer to install/sort out. Client was happy in the end…

seeing this hurts. my uncle parked this car in front of my house when i was in high school. i used to bug the crap out of him to let me buy it so that i could get it running, it was a deep navy with a navy interior. the wheels were solid chrome and the windows tinted. the interior was in great condition and smelled…

The Ghost of Kinja Present says you’ll get an unusable platform and you’ll damn well like it. The amount of lag as I type this on my desktop is absurd.

Don’t buy this to flip - you’ll lose your ass. Having built a 66 bird with a buddy, I’d say the juice ain’t worth the squeeze here - even when you’re done, you’ve gota 65 TBird, which is not much fun to drive, chews up all your garage space, and is a bitch to resell. These cars are HEAVY - they weigh more than an F150…

CP <<=====|====F>> NP

My favorite part is the lack of calipers.

It’s like neuticles for cars, if Truck Nutz didn’t exist (why do they though). 

Weird. Even my local electric company is encouraging customers to switch to LED bulbs. And they’re in the business of, you know, selling electricity.