That’s an LQ4. From a truck. They are plentiful and cheap. The 6-speed, though, would be a grand for anything usable. So around 2.5 k for the motor trans and harness. Add a couple grand for rebuild and we’re still short of $10k

Tthat LQ4, is an iron block. What kind of neanderthal would put an Iron block in a 540? The build may have been fully-assed, but the block choice was no as at all, which averages out to, yeah, half-assed.

Yours. Because the worst you can do is $600 damage.

As my teenage daughter would say: “Your’e not cool anymore”

It has a truck axle and if you hit a bump in a fast corner, it will remind you of that.

Please tell me that’s not the oil pan. It’s some kind of deflector or guard, right?

If all goes well, I’ll be doing this over the coming winter.

I’m going to NP this. The car itself is total crack, but you could part it out and get way more back, probably from just the drive train.

... and I lost a fiver at lunch today. So, relatively speaking, I guess he’s hurtin’ about as much as I am right now.

I really don’t disagree with anything you said. Years ago when I bought my saw, I had it throw the chain a couple of times and the thing only had a dozen or so hours on it. The way it happened, it seemed like it was loose and when the branches I was working on twisted and pinched the bar, the chain kind of got pulled…

Looks like chaps, ear protection and maybe gloves laying on the ground there.

I would think the cause is more often, or at least as often, improperly adjusted chain tension.

This is the definitive “ride-once” toy. If I thought the NP voters would actually pay this much for it, I’d pick this thing up, ride it for a week just so I could claim it on my résumé, and unload it.

Um, I believe everyone around here hates the Accord Cross-to-bear and the Ick-6.

That looks boxed front to back. Where’s the open C Channel part?

For me it was close, but no cigar, just the pipe. If it were still a wagon, I’d NP it all day long, but the semi-usable bed ruins it for me.

Considering the thousands that would have to be spent to knock the ugly off it, CP.

Neutral: It depends on how we legislate the operation of such vehicles. If a sober, qualified person is still required to be behind the “wheel” of said autonomous vehicle, then that would imply that the operator still has some responsibility for the actions of the vehicle. In that case, I think we’d see shared…

Yup. back in 2000, one of the Ford dealerships near me got a Cobra R and asked ridiculous money for it. When I left the state in 2003, they still had it.

If this were a west coast car, I’d be NP all day long. However, I worry about 8 Minneapolis winters worth of salt. Still, a cautious, and not emphatic, NP.