It’s also a breach of trust! You take care of a thing and then it breaks down on you??? “KHAAAAAA(n)!!!!

Government attorneys can and do file civil actions, not just criminal ones.

Since it’s in the hands of a dealer, I’m surprised the asking price isn’t 2-3x that in search of a nostalgia market.

A couple of decades ago, when living in the Bay Area, I used to see fruitwood fireplace wood advertised all the time. Perhaps increasing constraints on fireplace use in urban areas reduced this market?

if its for the “Rolling Coal” for the life of me I do not understand how these are legal and safe?

Somewhere between 1 and 364 days from now—even the latter is probably faster than the legislature could turn around on changes—he’ll be 13 and within reach of the system. Hope springs a leak eternal that this means adjudicated and enforced actual help for whatever psychological problems are driving this behavior,…

In that condition and at that price, I’m not surprised the ad is down already. As long as it shows no signs of the supercharger and/or the transmission being ready to go (and I’d look at those as negotiation points rather than show stoppers), this is the easiest NP in a long while.

ND with a plate of fava beans

The market for these is all over the place. This example (significantly, from the years of a slightly larger and fuel injected engine) might command this price, but it had better be fully worthy of those claimed concours wins.

Or the seller is a flipper, or the heir of the deceased owner, or a dealer who took it in trade. Saying that the money was spent, and saying he personally spent it, are two different things.

Could it be the actual press car?

Seventeen grand (down from twenty) for a car so badly in need of frame-off restoration that he’s even willing to sell you a new frame?

The well-worn exclamation-point key seem to belong to a dealer called Bid2Own Wholesale, so what they really know firsthand about the car and its past are good questions. (Well, we can safely assume that what they’re asking is a fair bit north of what they paid...)

I stopped there once, ages ago, to get a cup of coffee and see what it is like. There was a sign much like this regarding their coffee prices. I more vaguely recall some prominent interior reflection of the owner’s hobby (maybe a lot of fish tanks?) as well.

Though they had their years in the wilderness, I now see newish Mitsubishis pretty often.

For better or worse, the no-fly list, though existent, is a terrorism-oriented thing of modest size. The consequences of this sort of behavior (other than possible criminal prosecution or fines) probably wouldn’t extent beyond Frontier.

Taking a wild guess that risk-benefit analysis and looking ahead to potential consequences are not among the life skills that got her where she is today.

As others have pointed out, SBC swaps into old Jaguars used to be a thing, with everything from plans to kitted-up retrofits available. And the Series 1 XJ in particular was a stately beauty. I do however have reservations about this one in the place where price and condition meet. (Also, about the degree to which…

He was seen stumbling in the parking lot, and when asked if he needed help, he shrugged them off with responses that “did not make sense.”

“lightly restored” — fixed up a bit, addressing some of the problems.