Found a listing on CL for a "1956 merk" so i thought I would take a look to see if it was a car or a truck or ??? I know that there was a thread on here awhile back about misspellings in a post but this has to take the cake...

"has a later model 351 neads carb and a starter , easy fix , has all its intirior and glass , stearing colum is in the trunk has a broken ear whair bolt gos threw cunnekting bolt to the frame , posibly full or half trade"<!-- START CLTAGS -->

 

The owner may not get many people looking at it over the mispelling, I use searchtempest to search craigslist and I would have never found it spelled that way!

 

i just pee'd on myself laughing !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I dn't thik selchick wood werk cars it to fer frm then werds

 

But did we ever determine if it was a car or a truck????

That is some pretty good mis-spellings. One of my favorites of all time was an ad I saw on ebay. It was from some guy selling a car from one of our deeper southern states (no offense, friends!). He wrote the engine had good "oal preassure". To this day I still laugh about that one.

 

I called and left a message but no response yet. I found this ad in a search in "cars & trucks" and I didn't notice the first time I read it that the category of the listing was under "dealer"! I'm not sure that I even want to know any more about this "merk".

 

I don't know what is worse, the people that post ads like that or the ones that call when I post an add???

Maybe they are the same person?

 

Fixed it for you.

 

For a number of years a local car parts recycler (a bone yard) maintained listings in the phone book (when there was such a thing) two ways:

Auto Parts

and

Otto Parts

Seemed to know the target market - people found them!

DW

 

Otto = type of engine. He was probably selling engine parts.

 

I think you're making up the part about that being from the deep south. Down here, oil is a two syllable word as in "oy-el." ... Upon further reflection, yours is authentic, "o-al." Never mind!

 

I worked for Auto Part and Service on North Ave. in Milwaukee in the early '80s. There maskot was called "Otto Parts". Whenever they answered their phones the always answer "Otto Parts". BTW, the owner was a real slave driver, couldn't communicate with you without screaming at you. Avearage number of days a person worked there was less than a week. I was there a year and half and in that time I must have seen at least 25 people lasted a day, at most.

 

I have a friend in the "awl bidniss."

 

I have an S-10 (yeah, I know...) and check in on a forum for them. As you might guess, the crowd there is MUCH younger. Check out this recent post by a very clever guy, who did an engine transplant. The sad part? I understand it!

"well the trans is cocked to the pass side so that 2 bolts on the housing line up then i drilled to holes in the top, sleeved the holes and filled in the halo space on the flange with alum rod. also i had to cut off were the started dome was and close that up then clearens a space for the starter on the eco. and now im trying to come up with some support for the bottom of the bell housing cuz i dont feel that 4 bolts is enuf. "

 

It's permanent now,Thanks numberdummy! Lol