I’d be highly suspicious of the chrome wheel arch trim...there is usually rust, a lot of rust underneath.

Two options come to my mind:

I also dig this in a weird way, but this front and rear treatment should be done to either a 3rd/4th-gen Camaro or a C5 vette.

They likely think filling up with premium gas instead of regular is what a maintenance history consists of...and a LUXRY BEAST needs its maintenance.

Indeed. They just scream “Third owner”

Compared to recent cars ( I am looking at you, BMW,...again) it has become much more friendly to the eye.

Doing a proper LS conversion will not be cheap either. Also it will push this thing very deep into ‘Someone else’s project’-territory.

You mean it is not the Pyrenees in the background, but the Pyrenees...and this is because the car had drum brakes instead of disc brakes?

Hackepeter ftw.

While I don’t know about any further penii as hood ornaments, I know about tortoise pee as a manufacturer’s emblem:

The general idea is to have a car, which shows the traces of wear instead of looking better than from factory afterbeing sandblasted during concourse restauration. A car which shows that it lived a full live has more character than a perfect cosmetically flawless one.

A tiny closed box and a propane space heater?

I can not understand all the hate....you go to a very fancy restaurant and *order* a menu with 27 courses for a stupid amount of money.

This is supposed to be a concert stage, hence it needs bad accoustics.

At $6k, there are surely AMG C or E class cars, which are cheaper than that.

-Reliable

At least $5 millions of laundered money are in this.

Clean out the junk. Just because it is a junker, there is no need for having tons of junk bogging down the remaining bit of handling.

Ah, the good old Raumnocken.

The Trabant had 4-on-the-tree.....but 5 is plain weird.