It looks like a ton of fun, I don’t have that kind of money for a toy, and a scan of market data confirms my hunch that the price is too high considering the mileage... but speaking of which, mad respect for an owner who put 41,000 miles on one of these, especially considering the weather in the Portland area.

Contemporary Nova, actually, although Cadillac put a lot of engineering as well as styling effort into hiding its economical origins, resulting in big sales numbers despite being one of their higher priced offerings.

“background car in 1970s-era mob movie.”

It also gives me minor flashbacks to Buford T. Justice’s Bonneville.

Yeah, I’m sure the paint is beautiful in its way and was applied by someone whose father and his father before him had handed down their craft, but the color just doesn’t suit the dignity of the car’s lines (or its sheer size—it’d feel less like driving a sports car than the Tomato Growers Association float in the…

The “cracks and bubbles” in the paint- with no closeup photos, or undercarriage shot are a red flag.

Didn’t some high school kids get killed in one over Thanksgiving?

I’d bet on a long-haul freeway commute. Cars that look great (careful driver with cleanly habits) but have more mileage than the Space Shuttle are a thing out there. This one comes out to maybe 20,000 miles a year.

If it were that clean, and that low mileage, and unmodified, I’d be tempted to give him a call, despite the understandable-yet-off-putting “Test drives w/ funds present only.”

The asking price proves to be in the ballpark of what they go for these days at this mileage and condition, especially with California surcharge atop the Grandpa-truck tax... though my distaste for any ad in which the (mostly hilariously irrelevant) SEO spam outweighs the description of the vehicle is considerable.

I wonder what the pass rate is on the field sobriety test. I’ve got a hunch that by the time they decide to make you get out of the car and take it, they have a good notion of what the result might be.

Private sale, not a dealer. {...}. I curate extremely clean, original, low mileage affordable “sleepers” with excellent ownership history.

They have enthusiasts. One tranche thereof is people probably not yet born when cars like this were new.

Depending on whether that’s just a slapdash respray or has rust underneath, it could be a solid “before” picture, but at that price I’d want it to be a nice “after” picture, original or at least correct, and preferably a high trim with the big engine. And from the ad copy, the seller comes across as a flipper who knows…

I miss the good old days when all it took to change a hurricane’s course was a Sharpie.

It was polarizing then and remained so, but this is about as far as you can take the wedge-shaped-car aesthetic on an everyman’s budget. Wedge-shaped garage like in the TV commercial sold separately. People who’d rather have a traditionally shaped car are not even looking at this ad.

“I’m not going to eat their food, which I’ve more or less already paid for. That’ll show ‘em!”

And because it’s the sleeker looking two-door rather than the far more practical (and thus much more common, given the fundamentally utilitarian nature of the vehicle) four-door.

He’s asking $7500 for a quarter-century-old example of a 40-year-old design with almost 200k on the clock, even though it needs some major work, plus something minor everywhere you can point your hand, with the distinct possibility that the rust you can see is just a reconnaissance mission for a whole rust army hiding …

I’m sure the price was depressed by the not-for-everybody (though conceivably original; Flare Yellow?) color choice. With the white two-tone, was the original owner or the restorer a banana importer or perhaps an heir to the Twinkie fortune?