“North Koreans LOVE me. I’m gonna do fantastic things for North Koreans. I’m gonna do so much good, because, let me tell you something, its a mess”

Here in Italy, we do not need cupholders. We like our espresso coffee in the little ceramic cup and we drink it at the bar, straight from a nice coffee machine. Nobody here likes to carry in his car the take-away pint of tinted water that you call coffee . When we drive, we usually do not drink and the only thing I…

The current state of my Datsun.

You just answered your question. Icahn’s going to keep the garages and mechanics business and break up the retail operations. It’s a strip-and-flip game.

I think perhaps what you’re missing here, Doug, is the fact that if someone is in the $3,500 market, it’s safe to assume they don’t have much money. And if they don’t have much money, it’s safe to assume they can’t afford to pour another $1,500/yr into the car they just purchased to keep it running. And if they can’t…

Everyone else is wrong

Singer 911

Datsun S30 with Racing Seats. Perfect

I would limit it to straight trades only, no money unless he trades and gains cash. I would want to see how far that initial $1000 can go through the magic of craigslist by the end of the year.

Western Sky. I saw this commercial and had to pause it

He could start with a $1000 craigslist find and try to up trade to a Rambo Lambo. He could even have rules like have to sell every 2 months and only allowed to put some much into repairs. It could be like Wheeler Dealers.

The first sub $1000 craigslist car, and on the first day of every month, you trade it for the first straight trade you can get until the next month.

How about a datsun 280z?

The subset of people who managed to pay off their car before the hard times hit.

I have often though about buying many smashed, clean-title cars for pennies, selling them as scrap piece by piece, pawning their titles at a title store, and then disappearing into the night with millions of dollars to start my own car company. Maybe I’ll call it Elio. Or SuperReplicas.

“I want rumbly V8 power but I want it in the most boring way possible.” -The owner of this car.

MINE! Already fired off an email to the guy. $1500 for that is a steal considering that the R100 I looked at that was actually on fire and parked under a truck wheel in pieces was going for $2500.

My toy car. My real car. My toy car. My real car.

That’s a bit arrogant, though, no? “Hey, I did some stuff to it, so why don’t you fork over how much it would cost to get a perfectly nice new Corolla (or a perfectly nice used OEM M5) for the privilege of taking my sloppy seconds that I didn’t like.”