[Greg Reid]

'Needs restored', 'Needs painted', etc. Future tense and past tense in the same phrase?
It either 'HAS BEEN restored' or 'needs TO BE restored'.

[indymanjoe]

Holy Grail is a term i hear alot.

[Stuart]

Referring to a gas motor never bothered me. After all, it is General Motors Corporation or Ford Motor If you look at the definition in any dictionary, a motor can be either electric or internal combustion.

The thing that does bug me these days is grammar. Instead of saying a car needs to be restored or an engine needs to rebuilt, sellers will instead say "needs restored" or "needs rebuilt."

[tooski]

Originally Posted by Stuart

The thing that does bug me these days is grammar. Instead of saying a car needs to be restored or an engine needs to rebuilt, sellers will instead say "needs restored" or "needs rebuilt."

Yup, that's the one that bugs me the most.

Another one that irks me are words that sound the same, but spelled differently and mean entirely different 'thinks'. On a post on another site a guy had difficulty with his 'break' system.

[NBF823]

Originally Posted by gtospieg

How about "motor"? A motor is electric our cars have ENGINES. Every single car show says motor motor motor.

Do you buy motor oil?

It used to bother me, then I heard someone say motor with a strong New England accent. Sometime I call them motors in the same way - I get a little chuckle.

[NBF823]

Originally Posted by Stuart

Referring to a gas motor never bothered me. After all, it is General Motors Corporation or Ford Motor If you look at the definition in any dictionary, a motor can be either electric or internal combustion.

The thing that does bug me these days is grammar. Instead of saying a car needs to be restored or an engine needs to rebuilt, sellers will instead say "needs restored" or "needs rebuilt."

True; motor.

The grammar doesn't bother me there. When they write Camero or something like that - that bothers me.

[locomotivebreath]

Actually , using’ to be ‘ is an unnecessary use of a verb . It’s cool for that 1000 word essay do Monday morning though ! Break system guy is probaly a victim of auto correct on a smart phone . Happens to me all the time , especially when I’m hammered . Back on topic though , I always wondered about “ most go , baby on the way “ ! WTH, is the baby gonna sleep in the garage ? You have a hot rod / muscle car but can’t swing a crib ?

[Chief of the 60's]

Never Seen a Winter - Car is sitting in garage with snow tires on.

[Stuart]

Actually they should say needs restoration or needs rebuilding, , not needs restored or needs rebuilt.

[eaglesan13]

Seeing something advertised as a "California Car" when it was built in California but immediately shipped to the rust belt, where it was driven on salty roads for ten years then parked beside the barn and allowed to sink into the mud for a couple of decades.

[NBF823]

Rebuilt and restored are really vague terms. That could mean almost anything.

Restoring not so much - you can largely see it unless its been repainted. But who doesnt take a block or heads to a machine shop, and wonder what that call is gonna say?

[68 Firebird]

worked 350!!!!!
the motors WORKED!!!!

[Chief of the 60's]

Originally Posted by eaglesan13

Seeing something advertised as a "California Car" when it was built in California but immediately shipped to the rust belt, where it was driven on salty roads for ten years then parked beside the barn and allowed to sink into the mud for a couple of decades.

Actually, there is a loaded Arizona '67 GTO that still has its Arizona plates on it that was sitting outside over here just like you stated. 20 years ago you could have ate off of it. The guy bought it with a seized engine and put it in his pole barn. He had to do some things in the pole barn so he rolled down the power driver's side window, pushed it outside, along with other rare cars, where it sat for at least 20 years with that window rolled down. The absolutely perfect original white interior is now black and moldy, all of the power window switches are so pitted they're shot as is all other potmetal pieces including the His & Hers shifter and tilt levers, and the roof under the perfect vinyl top is rotted out.

Now, the guy is restoring the car. Part of the restoration, he is replacing the roof. All the while, the car still has the rear bumper on it with that Arizona plate still attached.

[Lee]

"It's in great shape, because it's a TEXAS CAR!!!" People must base their geography knowledge on 1950's Westerns. Nearly HALF of the Texas population lives along the Gulf Coast. The Gulf of Mexico is SALT water, and we have prevailing winds constantly blowing salty air onshore.

Cars here are not as bad as from areas that extensively salt their roads, but they are FAR from being what you might find in Arizona or New Mexico. My dad's '79 Trans Am (daily drive back then) needed rust repair around the T-Tops when it was maybe 4 or 5 years old.

[Lee]

Originally Posted by Stuart

Referring to a gas motor never bothered me. After all, it is General Motors Corporation or Ford Motor If you look at the definition in any dictionary, a motor can be either electric or internal combustion.

The thing that does bug me these days is grammar. Instead of saying a car needs to be restored or an engine needs to rebuilt, sellers will instead say "needs restored" or "needs rebuilt."

or insignias on most of our cars that say "PMD".

Pontiac MOTOR Division. Sadly, it was neutered into Pontiac Design Division.

[U47]

Originally Posted by gtospieg

How about "motor"? A motor is electric our cars have ENGINES. Every single car show says motor motor motor.

No, this is like a Man Woman thing or like one of those racial slurs that can only be made by one race, but not another race.

So there can be a engine that's called a motor, but you can never call a electric motor a electric engine. The only engine that you can't call a motor is a steam engine. Apparently a steam external combustion is free of prejudice, however a rocket engine is in the dog house with the guy who has a motor of a wife.

[cdrookie]

When they post "must sell, need money" then right after that, they say "or trade". That, to me, says they don't need the money that bad, they just want rid of the pile of junk.

[U47]

You know, it must be because I'm form a older generation. Not once these people in this Olds promotional film call their Rocket engine a Rocket motor.

1951 TRAIL OF THE ROCKET - Lucille and Johnny - Oldsmobile ...

▶*29:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z_gz818r1c

[lfdsteve]

“Prolly”. Argh!!!!!

[4birds]

Terms or words overused, incorrectly used and abused in today's collector car world:

NUMBERS MATCHING!

Sure seems to be a lot of people that do not know what this even means.