I don’t know if it’s worth $17,500, but I’d say it’s safely worth five figures. Especially considering the backstory that this seller bought it for that.

Others are noting some shenanigans regarding the seller, but outside of that let’s consider this car for what it is. It’s currently listed for right about what it’s MSRP was.

A season with more “unconnected” episodes allows you to take risks and do something unusual as a one-off. People have mentioned “M*A*S*H” as one of those sorts of shows.... I remember (even after all these decades) two episodes - “The Interview”, where they got a former war correspondent to interview the cast as if it…

The ad is full of shit. This car was sold on BaT in October for $11,486.

Except that they never really were “there every week”. The tv season was September to May, or 40 weekly schedules. Original episodes in a series only took up 22 of them. The rest of the weeks were leavened out with reruns of the highly-rated episodes, specials, movies, and sports events.

“Shows were not canceled immediately after 8 episodes if the entire world did not watch twice. They were given time to grow an audience.“

20 episodes is for shows that re-use plots constantly and are comfort TV for old people. Like police procedurals.

“I love this thing so much that I’ve driven it around 4,000 miles per year and 700 miles since the engine swap, and now it can be yours!”

Selling after 700 miles? Sorry, friend, if you can’t live with your creation, neither can we. ND.

they weren’t AS profitable

When I was first moving to FL, I stayed at a friend’s vacation home in a gated community for the winter while I looked for and bought my own place. I got a nastygram from the HOA because I forgot to reel up the hose after washing my car and left it laying on the driveway overnight. The horror!

Other than the traditional ones where they are staffed, usually the automated ones or 24 hour ones are considered passive because the owner doesn’t need to physically be there at all time/ever and they just hire a few people to cover operations, provide customer service, etc. They most likely aren’t actually out there…

::adds to Volume 46 of “Reasons I Don’t Live Where There’s An HOA” encyclopedia set:: 

This was a point I was going to mention. 

It’s because uber/lyft drivers have to wash their cars on an extremely regular basis. Many wash their cars every day, to look as clean as possible to maximize their ratings, and uber suggests they get car wash memberships for this purpose.

Detailing Dan here. If you love your paint definitely don’t use contact as in rotating brushes, pads, whatever washes. Even so called touchless washes usually contain some pretty harsh chemicals. Here in Wisconsin winters sometimes a touchless or just washing, rinsing and getting the underbody with a self service…

My former BIL lives in a HOA community that prohibits washing cars in your own driveway.

Too iffy to deal with a potential douchebro who might've flogged the piss out of his whip and is now trying to cover his tracks. ND

Paying for someone else’s project ND