Your subconscious may have been trying to remind you that an ‘82 appeared in these pages for $5900 fairly recently.  It got a solid NP, but transposing those numbers makes it a harder sell.

The ad also states that a huge lot of parts is also available for purchase. At this asking price, just throwing them into the deal might help move the car. The buyer will probably need them sooner or later anyway. Otherwise, mild ND at the price, I think, though someone with a real jones for these cars (and that’s the…

If I were in that situation, I wouldn’t want to smash out a potentially repairable door if it weren’t really necessary (everything on an airplane is expensive, and it might not be something they have spares on hand for). Knowing that I could kick out this fairly flimsy door in an emergency would be enough; might as…

And of course he isn’t an ordinary person; he’s the level of entertainment celebrity to whom that amount of money is down in the noise level. (As witness his supposed intent to donate the costly watch to a charity auction.).

It was meant to be the closest thing to a big-block/fat-fenders Cobra they could build under early 90s smog and safety rules. The goal was a heady cocktail of adrenaline and testosterone; refinement even by contemporary standards, let alone today’s, was not really part of the formula.

trains punt cars out of the way just fine.

There are plenty of Cadillacs I would own, but it goes from an easy, “Sure!” to hit-and-miss somewhere amid the smog controls and downsizing years.

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: