@pip-bip Honestly, if something like this is available next summer when I'm actually ready to shop for a car, I would have to at least check it out. If it really is mechanically sorted out but just dirty and scruffy, that would suit me fine. And yeah, it may end up being a disaster, but when you're old and stuck in some plastic self-driving monstrosity, do you really want to tell the story of the old Alfa you almost bought? Or the sure-to-be countless stories of the Alfa you once owned?

@pip-bip Hey, that's not too far from me. Well beyond this thing's range though. Not that it drives currently anyways.

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That price is insane...

Imagine asking that sort of coin for a local 40 year old L200....even if you couldfind one !

@pip-bip Wow! Absolutely beautiful.

@pip-bip Well, at least it still has SUs on it...

@pip-bip I want to get one of those, put a Daimler 2.5 v-8 in it and tell people it is a Mopar prototype for a gas crisis Barracuda.

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Ye', you see the occasional Renault 5 here in the U.K., saw one the other day in fact.
Just that getting a more period correct car as a donor to restore this one makes more sense really.

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@pip-bip this car raises a lot of flags for a Datsun enthusiast. Zero chassis photos, vin doesn’t match model year, zero interior photos, lots of body customization, I can go on but unless they get more photos that’s a $5,000 car or less.

@pip-bip @Qaaaaa I mean the floors in my Jaguar aren’t a great deal better. I had the passenger side floor pan replaced at great expense. And just discovered the other day the drivers side is much worse than when I checked it last.

@pip-bip When cars still had character. Gorgeous.

@pip-bip My grandmother had a Mustang II Ghia, not sure the year, but it did have the V8, so that dates it a bit, since they didn't offer one at first. She still talks about it as one of her favorite cars - but, it replaced a Maverick, was itself replaced by a Tempo, and she's got an Avalon now, so, gives you an idea of where the bar's been set.

@pip-bip Just saw a red one yesterday. On the side of a garage of course.

@silentbutnotreallydeadly You can buy a base model Tacoma for about that. Heck, even SR5 V6 in 2wd.

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@pip-bip It's the Rally edition, with the 60 hp engine instead of the base 52 hp engine. The car is only 2000 pounds, but that's still not much if you are going to try to navigate modern American traffic. That 2000 pound weight also mean no crash structure at all.

Maybe you get this to take to shows on weekends, but anybody over 50 will look at it and shudder. The Chevette was GM's attempt to prove to Americans how much better the Japanese compact cars were.

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@pip-bip These are the kinds of cars I would want to save, LOL

@pip-bip Prepro might have better QC than production.

I have a 1981 Consumer Guide car book that reviewed dozens of new cars. They tested a TR7 or TR8, I forget which, but I remember their summary: "There may always be an England, but if our test car is any indication, there might not always be a British motor industry" - prescient words, as it is virtually all foreign owned now.

@silentbutnotreallydeadly It mostly goes over them but you don't feel them since it's sprung like a sofa.