There was shrinkage!

These CAFE racers with the looks but not the powertrain of the big-boy-toy trim were pretty popular, and the first owner or two of this car probably felt pretty good about the choice as oil prices went into an era of wild fluctuations.

Are they on a fuse or a self-resetting breaker in this car?

Evem with this all-show-not-much-go powertrain, prices for the Joe Camel era of Firebirds are all over the map...but a four grand ask, private party, should fetch a distinctly less needy example. And as for the air conditioning, the forecast for Stockton says that astronomical summer may be a week away but meteorologic…

Why in the world would you spend used car money on a bicycle? Just buy a car at that point!

Superficial comps suggest that it’s overpriced by a couple thousand for its mileage, but you’re buying a particular car rather than averages, and if this one’s mechanical condition does justice to its presentation, might be worth waving off the California lifestyle tax stacked atop a dealership profit margin.  Guarded…

it seemed to be the RWD version of the sporty Dodge Daytona (they were actually very different cars, but filled their respective niches in the same way).

I am imagining Lily Tomlin’s character in “Grace and Frankie” doing this to her Prius. And now fans of the show cannot un-see the mental image of how she is holding the paintbrush.

Look, up in the sky! It’s absurd! It’s insane! It’s... overpriced, man!

My (mis)understanding is that Creech AFB is, primarily, the remote operations center for your larger unmanned aerial combat and reconnaissance aircraft, so his job might also require being more highly security cleared than the average bear. All in all, not a great look for a young officer presumably hoping to make…

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.