Today there was a car in front of the house with a Tacoma that's been sitting for a long time so I knocked and asked about it. She wants $2500 and according to her it just needs a battery and tires even though it hasn't moved from that spot in the driveway for 8 years.... She also has a Harley Sportster in the garage which is something like $1800.
Eh. Rear of the frame is kinda rusty, but yea. The main thing is it's sat for 8 years. Dunno the year, probably 90s-early 00s.
2000 is still too much. Needs tires, which is a couple hundred bucks in itself, and the whole fuel system is probably trashed. Forget the water pump gasket, all of the seals and gaskets all over the truck have long dried out and will start leaking once the truck is being driven again, which will give you all kinds of grief down the road. You also need to consider the reason that it was parked in the first place.
She said it was something about losing their license. It might have just needed a battery 8 years ago, but it sure as hell needs more now. Most I'd pay is like $600. (It might be worth more, but I wouldn't pay more.)
If you're going to respond with a worn-out, overdone joke, would it be possible to at least answer the question in the process? (EDIT: I remember now what 8-liter V8 you were talking about. And honestly, I don't think absolute horsepower is ever the goal of a Cadillac engine.)
Sarcasm is hard to pick up in text, especially from someone like you, whose serious posts are stupid enough to be seen as jokes. I figured you just did a quick google search for the the common problems of that engine, and the water pump gasket was one of those.
Do I have to explain to you why what I wrote is not a personal attack against you? Don't take everything so personally, and learn to take a joke, champ.
I do tend to take things a bit personally, but... that kind of thing got old a long time ago. Jokes about guns and Bud Light are the national-level equivalent of Sarah Palin bashing - cheap, badly overplayed, old as the hills but not nearly so beautiful. They are the mark of someone who considers themselves mentally superior to the dumb hillbillies on the far side of the ocean because they can't get access to anything that could possibly be used to defend themselves or anyone else. It is the kind of attitude that drives me to consider stupid and un-Christian things I shouldn't ever do - like buying a rusty, worn-out pickup truck, driving to New York, and beating the Manhattan Island lap record with it just for the fun of watching the BMW snobs pitch a fit when they find out their record has been beaten by a rolling chunk of flyover country. I kind of scare myself because even I'm not sure how much of my own attitude is my real self and how much is a put-on designed to project a Cool Dude image. It's getting to be something of a problem. I think part of my "driving like a maniac" tendencies are at least partly due to a desire to look cool and tough, and they've got to the point where I got myself a real doozy of a speeding ticket the other day. This semi-brag proves my point.
By judging a person's intelligence based on whether or not they consider exaggerating stereotypes in a degrading and racially insensitive way as humour, you place yourself on a pedestal of superiority in a "cheap humour for the lowest common denominator is for morons" kind of way, which makes you contradict yourself in that you vilify condescending humour by being condescending toward the subject matter yourself. Not trying to start shit here, but that's the message you're bringing to the table.
Just calm down there Chucky cheese & we'll all be good. Also, never talk about Australian muscle like that again.
