The cherry on top of that perfect comment is that the car is actually in Sebring.  

I wouldn’t call it a high-dollar collector market, but they have a posse. The horsepower may not be that much by today’s standards even with the turbo, but the cars also didn’t weigh much by today’s standards — less than 2000 pounds, I’d bet.

It’s an “I’ve owned and driven worse” winter beater / woods basher at a future collector item /starting point for restoration asking price.  ND.

Priced substantially under market for its mileage and condition; easy NP if the usual due diligence pans out.

The asking price, and claimed low mileage, bring up an interesting This or That? thought experiment. For the same six-grand ask, this would be a lot easier to keep on the road than Friday’s offering, if a bit less rewarding to drive (probably not an easily achieved or highly stable condition for a carbureted,…

I’d love for someone to do a calculation of how long it would take to watch every hour of every iteration of Law & Order or CSI ever produced

Another car that could be nice for somebody who knows and loves it. If somebody gave this car to me, I would try to identify one of those people and pass it along to them. The price is really irrelevant; it’s the ownership experience that starts with pumping hot compressed air through a carburetor and gets worse from…

I’m fine with ship-in-a-bottle episodes and quirky little side quests (and agree that they can be among the most memorable that a series has to offer)... as long as they’re well done and are compelling on their own terms.

Good points. Let’s remember, though, that shows like Frasier that ran for years with relatively few “we’ve got to meet our network commitment so let’s just throw this at the ceiling and see if it sticks” episodes are the exception, not the rule.  It’s really quite hard to pull off.  

For sure I’d never dissuade anyone from catching up with Columbo — well worth while as entertainment as well as the revelation of how influential it was.

Erm... if memory serves, Columbo only came on about once a month, for seven or eight episodes a season.

let’s consider this car for what it is.

Not much to say about the value proposition except that it isn’t my cuppa, but just thought I’d mention this series of articles about the wonderful madness that either comes with or inspires (I’ve never been sure) every purchase:

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…