YSaC, Vol. 1468: You can’t park that here!

2013 March 13

Hammy! We’ve got just the car for you!

1994 chevrolet beretta – mechanic special – $500


a hammy down from my aunt, i am thinking a bad head gasket is the cause of the anti freeze and oil mixing also there is a small hole in the muffler. Brakes started to lock up on me. got new brakes all around and the problem continued and now i just want to get rid of it and get a new car. I don’t have time to fix myself. under 100k miles. had great gas milage. NOT DRIVABLE . I am asking $500 OBO. call/text @ #############
need gone soon. Thank you

Stantz: Everybody can relax, I found the car. Needs some suspension work and shocks. Brakes, brake pads, lining, steering box, transmission, rear-end.
Venkman: How much?
Stantz: Only $4800.$500
[Venkman looks shocked]
Stantz: Also new rings, mufflers, a little wiring.

It’s a pity this person doesn’t have time to fix themselves – there should always be time for self-improvement. However, I think we should see what else is available.

2010 Porsche Carrera S, Easy fix – $39500


2010 Porsche Carrera S, Auto, 16,000 Miles, Black on Black, Sun Roof, Good Tires, Runs and Drive excellent, Light Damage over Frame Rail, 5 Year warranty or 100,000 Miles, Transferable Warranty, Clean Title, Beautiful Car, ###-###-#### No Texting Please

Well, that doesn’t look too bad, and $40,000 isn’t TOO..

Woah! Oh. Oh god. Um. Er. Wow.

I mean, um. Sure. That’ll buff right out.

Thanks for the ads, Kristin and Kate!

63 Responses leave one →
  1. 2013 March 13

    I can’t deal with putting Hammy down, no matter what Grandma says!

    Adores: 4
    • 2013 March 13
      camille permalink

      I’ve been wondering where Hammy’s been. Visiting his aunt, apparently.

      Adores: 2
    • 2013 March 13
      HamCan permalink

      I had bad head gasket once…

      Adores: 7
      • 2013 March 13

        That sounds serious Hammy. Is it anything like a bad hair day?

        Adores: 2
      • 2013 March 13
        Demon Duck of Doom permalink

        Aww……. there there, little buddy. I’ll be your Hammy down comforter.

        Adores: 4
      • 2013 March 13
        Bombdude permalink

        Ever seen a kid get his head stuck between the stair banister rails? Bad head gasket…

        Adores: 6
  2. 2013 March 13

    But how well does the radio work?

    Adores: 5
    • 2013 March 13
      Kaziganthi permalink

      You’d know better than us, especially since our speedometer’s melted.

      You feel this vehicle is safe for highway travel?

      Yes, I do. It’s not pretty, but it will get you where you want to go.

      You got no outside mirror.

      It’s lost.

      You have no functioning gauges.

      No, not a one. However, the radio still works. Funny as that may seem, the radio’s the only thing that’s really working good. Don’t ask me how.

      Adores: 3
  3. 2013 March 13
    D "Snarky / Spice" DM permalink

    a hammy down from my aunt

    Hammy Chevy down oh zig-a-zig ah!

    Adores: 5
  4. 2013 March 13
    kelli permalink

    Is the light damage from a street light or a stop light?

    Adores: 10
  5. 2013 March 13

    Is “Mechanic Special” the car version of “Great Project Home?”

    Adores: 3
    • 2013 March 13
      Irregular Fractal permalink

      The one I’ve been seeing lately in perusing real estate ads is, “Bring your interior decorating creativity!” which seems to be code for, “This is a house whose decorating would make even the 1975 version of you embarrassed.”

      Adores: 11
      • 2013 March 13

        “Great potential” usually means “bring a hazmat suit”.

        Adores: 7
        • 2013 March 13
          mudslicker permalink

          “Great potential for a lawsuit”

          Adores: 3
      • 2013 March 13

        “Imagine the possibilities [once you’ve secured financing to do a tear-down and rebuild].”

        Adores: 3
        • 2013 March 13

          And found an exorcist willing to work for dumpster Cheetos.

          Adores: 3
      • 2013 March 13
        CapnMac permalink

        I thought that meant “gutted by copper thieves & presently infested with spodders 7 hipsters” . . .

        Either that or “includes stoners who still have not cleaned the kitchen” . . .

        Adores: 5
        • 2013 March 13

          In one place I looked at, it meant “contains several bottles of former occupants’ urine.”

          Adores: 3
      • 2013 March 13
        tigprincess permalink

        My favourite is Not Overlooked At the Rear = Close to the abattoir.

        Adores: 2
  6. 2013 March 13

    I’ve always wanted a Porsche that was attacked by a T-Rex.

    Adores: 9
    • 2013 March 13

      I’ve always wanted a T. rex that could drive me around in a Porsche.

      Adores: 8
      • 2013 March 13
        DigitalAxis permalink

        With those stubby little arms? He might find it difficult.

        Adores: 8
        • 2013 March 13

          That does tend to interfere with the operation of a manual transmission.

          Adores: 3
        • 2013 March 13

          He would have a helper monkey.

          Adores: 4
        • 2013 March 13
          DigitalAxis permalink

          One of the Great Apes? Or just a Mediocre Ape?

          Adores: 3
        • 2013 March 13
          CapnMac permalink

          An over-compensating ape?

          Adores: 1
      • 2013 March 13
        mudslicker permalink

        Would he look like Morgan Freeman, ghostie?

        Adores: 3
        • 2013 March 13

          In the right light, yes.

          Adores: 2
        • 2013 March 13
          Kaziganthi permalink

          Morgan Freeman is not a dinosaur. He may not be young but I maintain that he is still relevant.

          Adores: 1
  7. 2013 March 13
    mud "static noise" slicker permalink

    Tie your Hammy down
    Tie your Hammy down
    Lock your Caddy–all the doors
    I don’t need no brakes all around
    Tie your Hammy down
    Tie your Hammy down
    Give me all your OBOs tonight!

    Adores: 11
    • 2013 March 13
      HamCan permalink

      Kinky! I like it!

      Adores: 5
      • 2013 March 13
        mudslicker permalink

        Well, you know Freddy Mercury. He loves his Mercury Comets and his Mercury Cougars. Not sure about his Chevy Berettas.

        Adores: 3
  8. 2013 March 13
    DigitalAxis permalink

    Man: Hello, I wish to register a complaint.

    Owner: Aren’t you the man who bought the Porsche Carrera S about half an hour ago? How d’ye like her?

    Man: I don’t like her at all.

    Owner: What, wrong color?

    Man: It’s not the color. The car won’t start.

    Owner: I said it was lightly damaged.

    Man: LIGHTLY damaged? There’s no hood, the frame is bent, and the front end has practically fallen off.

    Owner: Ah, that’s the ‘S’.

    Man: I’m sorry?

    Owner: Sport model. Extra ventilation.

    Man: Ventilation? The engine is in three pieces, the front axle is cracked, the front bumper is lying parallel to the ground, the suspension isn’t connected to anything at all, and the transmission is flat out missing.

    Owner: Have you filled the gas tank?

    Man: I don’t think that car would start even if I hooked it up to THREE gas tanks. That thing out there is barely a car.

    Owner: It is a Porsche Carrera S, 2010 model, is it not?

    Man: It is.

    Owner: And the Porsche Carrera S is a car, correct?

    Man: Look, when I drop $40,000 on an autoMOBILE, I expect it to be MOBILE. Capable of movement.

    Owner: And it is.

    Man: …Under its own power.

    Owner: So it needs a little fixing up. Not a problem if you have the tools.

    Man: I think we’re a little beyond tools at this point.

    Owner: Look, mate, you’re the one who went to a Demolition Derby to buy a Porsche, not me.

    Adores: 10
  9. 2013 March 13

    That Porsche is an easy fix. If we’ve learned anything from Arallyn, we just need to glue the front end to it’s own axle and a new front will grow in no time.

    Adores: 5
    • 2013 March 13
      Irregular Fractal permalink

      Hey, it worked in Date Night…

      (Yes, I saw Date Night. I will spend two minutes in the penalty box feeling shame.)

      Adores: 3
      • 2013 March 13
        CapnMac permalink

        10.0E10 adores for the Slapshot reference

        Adores: 3
    • 2013 March 13

      But if you honk the hork too forcefully, the front bumper might fall off.

      Adores: 3
      • 2013 March 13
        mudslicker permalink

        But luckily, it will still be attached to the tailpipe!

        Adores: 2
        • 2013 March 13
          mudslicker permalink

          What’s a hork? Is that a Dr. Seuss character? Horton hears a hork? I probably would need to know so I don’t honk it aggressively.

          Adores: 3
        • 2013 March 13
          Demon Duck of Doom permalink

          Porsches don’t have horks. You’re thinking of the Dodge Loogie.

          Adores: 8
        • 2013 March 13

          I’m a cat, horking comes naturally to me 🙂

          Adores: 8
        • 2013 March 13
          CapnMac permalink

          That’s one of them ikea Σäab ottomøbil with the hørk built right in, ain’t it?

          Adores: 1
      • 2013 March 13
        Bombdude permalink

        First I honk, *then* I hork.

        Adores: 2
  10. 2013 March 13
    Scr permalink

    I said “PORSCHE” not “PUSHER”!!

    Adores: 3
    • 2013 March 13
      CapnMac permalink

      That’s “bucket’ not “BOO-kay”

      Adores: 2
  11. 2013 March 13

    I wonder what would need to happen to the Porche for the owner to upgrade to “medium damage.”

    Adores: 3
  12. 2013 March 13
    Bombdude permalink

    Runs and Drive excellent

    Methinks the Porsche owner has mixed up his tenses. “Ran and Drove (before the T-Rex encounter)” would have been more accurate…

    Adores: 4
  13. 2013 March 13
    CapnMac permalink

    If that’s “light damage over the frame rail” I’d hate to experience “light tidal forces” near the event horizon of a singularity.
    thxokbye
    that’ll be $26900

    Adores: 3
  14. 2013 March 13
    mudslicker permalink

    My friends all drive Porches, I must make… *sound of needle sliding across vinyl* whoah!!

    Adores: 3
    • 2013 March 13
      Windrose permalink

      It’s okay, only light damage to the record. *hides fragments in the box for Hammy’s ashes*

      Adores: 0
    • 2013 March 13
      Irregular Fractal permalink

      My Janis-loving SO just involuntarily twitched and has no idea why.

      Adores: 2
  15. 2013 March 13
    Irregular Fractal permalink

    Ray, when someone asks you if the car drives great, you say YES!

    Adores: 2
  16. 2013 March 14

    Ghostie, you again? 8) Punchity Punch Punch!

    Good Morning, Chop Shop!

    Adores: 1
  17. 2013 March 15
    One Moving Violation permalink

    I read “hammy down” and busted out laughing…right here in the library. I now know what consternation is.

    Adores: 0

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