a diminutive, high-revving Wankel rotary as was Mazda’s custom at the time.

More the Green Hornet era of Imperials and their tailfin era predecessors, I’m thinking, that was forbidden by a lot of demolition derbies (though their reputation doubtless lingered).

A similar car took a drubbing at fifteen-eight a few months ago, and most of the arguments apply to this one even at a slightly lower price. Potentially a nice car, but I’m not stackin’ them chickens up thirteen-five...

This week’s theme seems to be interesting and well preserved thirtysomethings, with a midweek trend toward niche appeal at very aspirational prices. I’m with the large majority voting ND on this one, especially since it has a variety of (admittedly visually tasteful) tuner mods and a Megasquirt from an unstated place…

All this. So soon after takeoff (the plane didn’t get too far over the fence), I’m imagining the pilot was glad to have a zero-zero seat, and the parachute descent maybe didn’t have time to stabilize as well as one might hope.

I can find a couple of comps at those Midlife Crisis Motors dealerships for this price... but also one with half the odometer reading for the same price (and not the two screens of obnoxious SEO spam that hopes to grab people shopping for wildly different vehicles). Rampant ND, though you can’t fault ‘em for trying.

I’m not sure where the pilot landed after ejecting, but the terrain in the vicinity of the airport in that direction offers a lot of ways to get hurt when landing, in addition to any injuries suffered in the ejection. Beats the alternative, though.

Lots of things for me to like here: the popularly priced sporty coupe as an overall genre; the Mazdas of this period as aesthetic objects and for their driving qualities and ownership experience; and how well the seller’s grandparents (or so I guess) took care of this car. The price, maybe not so much, given that it’s…

“Tavarish,” this venue’s former authority on how someone of ordinary means can roll like a player with carefully selected cast-offs from the rich, would doubtless approve as I vote NP... contingent on pre-purchase inspection by a mechanic of my choice who knows these cars.

That is kind of wild, isn’t it? This of course was a legacy product line; by 1989 the LeSabre nameplate had largely been taken over by a front-wheel drive product with a transverse, fuel injected 3800 V6.

The ad says it has a “350 big block,” although that would have been a small block even in the heyday of proprietary Buick V8's, gone for most of a decade by 1989. My (mis)understanding is that the Olds-sourced 307 had long since BOPped in to take its place.

That isn’t even especially heavy fog. How FSD deals with one of those San Joaquin Valley tule fogs that are like driving through oatmeal would be... interesting.  Or a summer dust storm in some of the same places.  

there is no fix for the wheels.

I’ve always liked the looks of the Allante, even though its message to the world is more “tee time at the club” than “mountain roads and a stopwatch”. A beater Cadillac can be fun with the right attitude. The asking price isn’t bad.

It helps that the sort of vans used for 12- to 15-passenger service are likely to have a lot in common with the manufacturer’s super-duty pickups. Passenger cars designed with a lot of attention paid to lightening things down in the name of both gas mileage and profit, are probably both given more-spirited driving and…

“Dad?”

The overall price of this package is super-premium, but yes, you then get to pay high operation costs. Diesel tends to be substantially more expensive than gasoline in the US, and even more so in California (see the blue box at the bottom of…

It’s kind of disposable at this point in its life.

Yeah, 96k on the clock is low mileage for year (US average is something like 12,000) but it isn’t exactly little old lady who only drove it to church (very fast) on Sunday mornings mileage. This leads to something to ponder in the ad’s combination of “enthusiast owned” and “driven very little.”

Though it isn’t discussed in the article, my (mis)understanding is that GM’s rationalization of their product lines included winding down GMC’s medium-duty truck business after an attempt to sell it to Navistar fell through. I think they’d been gone from the heavy-duty space for 20 years.