Not gonna lie, I will be slightly disappointed if someone decides to restore this ‘Vette.

NO! This is where I “Draw The Line!”

This is very true. I had aspirations in my late teens early 20s that I would own a V8 SHO. My dad talked me down due to it being a finicky limited production engine with not a lot of support. So over a decade later I found myself with a just as limited production of a car. Well, at least EG33s aren’t interference…

I guess it all depends on if we’re using the dictionary definition of “Collector” or the David Tracy definition...

Exactly! And what’s funny is like 80% of the Subaru wheels we sold to LKQ at an immense profit, and they’re probably on cars by now or available for sale as remans.

I used to work in the aluminum recovery area of a foundry. Subaru would scrap wheels just for a scuff. On several occasions we received over 20 tons on brand new BRZ wheels that they pulled off the cars at port. The ones my dad has on his Legacy though, those totally fell off the back of a truck... Honest...

It is a relatively unrelated engine, some specs are shared but nothing that couldn’t be considered a coincidence or a case of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” And if my memory serves correct, the V8 SHO engine is a 3 company collaboration Ford, Yamaha and Cosworth.

Around my parts every running, driving, non-collector car of 30+ years in age is almost certainly a FWD GM of this vintage. Buick and Olds specifically, has to be the TruCoat, which I hear they install at the factory, has kept these cars around for scenarios just like this.

It’s ALWAYS a ratty Buick...

It’s a Jeep thing David, you wouldn’t understand

Jason, you captivated me with brown wagon, you awed me with the wonderfully engineered window, now you need to get on “Quirks and Features™” before Doug does!

I’m catching a just a little bit of a classic 8 series vibe off of this, am I alone? More in the front than the back but still. Probably from the where the head lights are and the slope of the nose. Better grille than anything BMW did in well over a decade though.

I think we all owe Malcolm Bricklin a debt of gratitude for believing in a small time, weird, Japanese auto maker enough to bring these over to America! Then we immediately dock half a point from that gratitude for making the SV-1...

Man... I’m still kicking myself for selling my base set collection with a Charizard back in the late 00's for $50.00 on eBay when my son was born... What’s worse is he is totally into Pokemon now and I don’t have them to pass along to him.

I guess we’re far enough removed from the 70s to name it that, right?

I don’t remember that line from the movie? 

You should notify the sheriff of their business practices!

I was fortunate enough to be born into a household with an ASE certified mechanic with a full (yet small scale) race car shop so I’ve never actually been to a “real mechanic.” Sure I have to work around the old man’s schedule and donate my own time, but it’ll always get fixed and right. Plus he gets a discount at the…

It’s an NP for somebody looking for exactly this, ND for me though. I’d be happy with a ratty one that drives the same or better by adding suspension stuff and go faster bits to achieve what I’d want for the same price.

I’m sure Cale sandbagging the run he had going didn’t hurt the situation any either...