But... did he add light or allow the darkons to escape?

Good price as a project for those who really know and love these cars. Those with illusions that it has a cheap easy path to being what most people would consider an acceptable daily driver should run fast and run far. This is a tired looking example with a lot of substantial risk factors, depending on how long it has…

Well... a lot of the malaise came not from downsizing per se, but from trying to meet emissions requirements with analog gear. Computerized digital fuel injection systems and closed-loop controls opened the door to the present golden age.  So did Detroit’s fitful realization that the Japanese were onto something with…

The price isn’t much, but the Z34's engine had a reputation as a bit of a problem child, and as for the seller’s personal knowledge of this particular example, he seems to have an unusual number of cars for sale despite this being on the supposed by-owner side of Craigslist:

That, and landscaped apartment/condo communities that might not even provide suitable places and garden-hose hookups.

I want to like this car, but even with the sunroof to alleviate all that yellowness right in your face, it’s a size and shape that shouldn’t be yellow.

Fifteen-five to take over some stranger’s project (whose basis needed a now “NEW(ish)“ engine at five figure mileage)? I’m grinching pretty hard on this day-after-Christmas deal, despite the seller’s dreamweaving about the kind of power it could make, but presently doesn’t. The 26 days on the market (in a metro area…

What a thing to find with a big green bow on top if your goal is show’n’shines, maybe even a real concours, and the occasional Sunday morning outing or parade. For actually using in modern times, I’d have gone restomod power train and running gear and a plausible shade of incorrect Imron. But it would be completely…

Light-duty diesels (<14,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating) of model year 1997 and older don’t have to undergo smog check in California, so there’s that. (https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-registration/smog-inspections/)

Diesel is $5.50 in the LA area, which I think is about a buck and a half higher than diesel at your end of the 10, and a dollar more than gasoline locally. (https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/)

This. “Massive and passive” is a good team when it comes to Plan B undercar support.

This is perilously close to having me price out a ticket to LAX and one of the easiest NP votes of the year.

If you want a “ute,” you could get almost three of yesterday’s Baja for the asking price of this... and those have a rear seat.

As I parse the ad, the head gaskets were replaced at 150k (fairly typical for when the turkey timer pops out) and the timing belt and water pump would have been sensible to do at the same time. The car is now at 185k.

Jaunty little thing, but my impression from the scant but existent comps available online is that it’s quite a bit overpriced for its mileage. As people point out here from time to time, “rare” and “valuable” are not synonyms.

As someone here (maybe krhodes1?) put it the last time the subject came up, seat belts not only keep you from being ejected, but also help you survive “the collision inside the car.”

For a Laser in that trim (FWD and no turbo) and that many miles, the asking price is a little too far into the gain medium, but compared to what most of the surviving ones look like these days, the presentation is enough to cause stimulated emission. Even with the vastly incongruous (and hopefully removeable)…

Hagerty suggests that the ask is about spot-on for that condition, a car that is quite capable of taking home a trophy at a regional show, so if it’s as good to a knowledgeable eye in person as it seems here, NP.

Hannah Payne “acted like a cop”

I’d watch Eddie Murphy do a dramatic reading of the Yellow Pages, but... after 40 years, shouldn’t Axel Foley be watching from either a window office high in police headquarters or a Winnebago as his son chases crooks?