Rational folks have confidence.  Conspiracy nuts have coincidence.

Look, you put a 327 in an old Nova that came with a straight six, you have probably added value to the car. Easy swap, factory offered it that way, it is an old car at the point where everything probably needed to be redone anyway.

For that kind of money, everything should work. And it should come with a bag of gold to offset the price. 

Of course any one in the DC area knows that plans to tie up traffic in DC will hardly be noticed by folks use to how awful traffic already is surrounding the US capital. 

I owned a first gen RX-7 back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Not the horsepower of this model by a long shot, but that rotary whirring away up front was like a turbine churning. Damn that was cool.

$30K for a twenty year old American shitbox! $30k! Are you fucking kidding me?

The only thing I would disagree with is the “easy to work on”. They aren’t, but not for the reasons of a normal car.

It is bonkers, and it totally shouldn’t, but I think this is one of the rare projects and specials that might actually get the money. Against all sense, reason, and sanity, I’m voting NP. With the caveat that it’ll be waiting on the shelf for a while for the right buyer, but when that buyer comes along they will go…

That is not expensive at all, especially in today’s market. I’d vote NP, but it might take some time to sell because it is not going to be for the ordinary market. This is for the buyer looking for something a little different, so they  may have to wait until that buyer comes around. Once they do, though, it will go…

FWIW I drive a ‘17 Alltrack with nearly 100k miles and it’s been incredibly reliable for me; just drove it up and down the entire west coast during a snow storm with zero hiccups. Though from what I’ve read, the MK7 Golf platform is the only real outlier in terms of being a reliable VW

What I’ve learned with VWs is to avoid dealers if you can. If you’re in a decently sized metro area, there are typically more than one good independent shops that specialize in VWs, and will do great work for significantly less.

Came here to find whacky German maintenance stories. was not disappointed.

I had a friend who bought a used CC. I think he spent what this car is asking just in repairs.

I would have understood this better in the original Dutch, or was it to much Grolsch on a Monday morning?

NP, buuut I would try to get it down some dollars before I called it a sale. That’s also assuming that the underside didn’t show rot that we just can’t see.

/s

Reasons I’ve given up on cars in the last few years:

The overall tone of the ad, the wording makes me hesitate. On the face of it, seems like it should be a NP, but the seller comes across as a dickhead and $6200 is too much to put up with the hassle! So No Dice because I wouldn’t want to deal with this guy and his boy-racer modifications.

I am all in, why not? Run a few tests on it, throw a few parts at it, if it works you win, if it doesn’t a guy like me who has never owned one learns to speak Mercedes, and it gets sold for around what I bought it for, or parted out 

The Wankel engine is not Dorito-based, the Dorito is Wankel engine-based.