Does adding oil every fuel fill-up count as an oil change?

The other two replies are correct; the SMG had no “park” position so it had to be left in neutral with the handbrake on.

If your super bad-ass car is so fragile and suspect that you have to change the oil at ridiculous intervals and you have to drive it like Miss Daisy, then your super bad-ass car is a hot steaming pile of shit that isn’t worth bothering with.

It sounds to me like the owner was trying very hard to stave off the known conrod bearing issue with his hyperactive oil change schedule. That and a lifetime of highway miles - not flogging it, just cruising - is pretty easy duty and a fast way to rack up a bunch of miles without putting too much stress on the engine.

CP all day every day. Squeak out another $3k and get this:

Kudos to this vehicle and owner(s) for getting up to 200K. That really is a big feat for the V10 in this vehicle, even If it did get the rod bearings done at one point. Still, you’d have to REALLY want one and be brave at the same time (or stupid). If you’ve got balls made of vibranium, go for it ! 

My guess is it’s a ferry trip for buses whose trips terminate in midtown but start the next one in Brooklyn and since they have to make the drive anyway, might as well see what suckers will at least cover the gas money.

In war, you want to make as many as quickly as possible.

Projects like this move at the speed of Manpower and Money, if you wanted to double or triple the cost you could do it in half the time. The truth is we just don’t have infrastructure to create all the pieces that go into a Carrier very quickly we could if we wanted to invest the manpower and money, if you wanted to…

Peacetime budget and process is the answer.

I’ll take three. Now.

Pre-’97 diesels are exempt, but this was not a pre-’97 diesel. As far as California, or any other emissions-testing state is concerned, this is an ‘86 (gasoline-burning) Montero, and the engine swap to a diesel doesn’t make it exempt, it makes it fail.

Nay, as pre-’97 diesels are exempt from smog test in California, so emissions is of no concern. That dodge was just pointlessly stupid, and also expressly illegal and uninsurable in California as the driver is a California resident.

It’s not only a scam, it’s a worthless one in the state it’s being sold thanks to California Vehicle Code section 6700(b) explicitly stating “This exemption does not apply if the nonresident owner rents, leases, lends, or otherwise furnishes the vehicle to a California resident for regular use on the highways of this…

Wait, it gets hilariously worse! This scam is entirely illegal soup to nuts because the guy is a California resident, so the LLC had no legal right to Montana registration even though it’s the owner. California Vehicle Code section 6700.(b) reads:

Seniors are poised to be the fastest-growing part of the labor market through 2024, and lots are going back to work in hospitality. AARP found seniors are filling half of all new jobs. And fast food joints are especially paying attention.

Lot of red flags, the biggest not even automotive. Explaining how you are running a scam, dodge or what have you in the ad for something you are selling does not inspire confidence. Yeah it’s the government and technically legal but still don’t advertise that part.

33 years, 200K miles, a dodgy registration and warts abound for a mildly interesting version of a mildly interesting rock-hopper for the price of...any number of much better alternatives? Yeah, no.

It’s bizarre to Montana register such a modest vehicle as a tax dodge, so I’ll have to assume it was done for emissions reasons in this case.

You’ve got to be a special kind of stupid to reveal your other shady behaviors in a used car ad. CP on the seller, and CP on the Mitsu.