I genuinely love early 80s Japanese imports (see: my frequent posts about my 1982 Celica.) BUT. This is just too much money for what it is, and the nail in the coffin for me was the auto transmission.

Wait... so driving around in a rickety claptrap so I can cook, sleep, and poop in the same metal box isn’t as fun as it sounds?

Found the racist. Your dog whistle sounds more like a foghorn.

Tell me you’re a racist without telling me you’re a racist 

What in the history of capitalism makes you think that? If there is one lesson we can draw from pretty much all American history is that it will always get worse, we’ll find a way to make it worse.

Went to visit the Salton Sea back in 2018. Truly felt like I had warped into another reality. The sand was literally carcasses. The surrounding area of the “sea” was decrepit, run-down, and every house looked like there were nefarious actions happening within. Went to the visitor center, though. Was actually kind of…

It’s a simple car and anything that goes wrong can easily be fixed, quite likely by better bits. Same applies to any other car of the era. Calm yourself with the “Lucas!” rhetoric.

I don’t think anybody buys these cars for their mechanical prowess. You buy them for more abstract and aesthetic reasons. Nostalgia, image, the pleasure of having something simple to tinker with...

Seeing’s how a classic Mini in half the condition can easily cost twice as much, this can only go one way.

Dude, that was just cruel!!

You’re right except for the cost of the money. The interest rate or “money factor” in lease speak, is far higher than the interest rate you can get on a new car loan. Most consumers don’t have any idea that there is interest on a lease or how to calculate it, so they just get charged whatever. A friend of mine is a…

Finally, an easy one that doesn’t require I grapple with my emotional response.

2wd is fine by me. NP!

i have a 1990 4Runner and its a spaceship in comparison to this thing

Seller didn’t even bother taking it off the trailer they used to pick it up. 

I had an 89. It had 125k on it and a service record that would take up an Encyclopedia Brittanica rack. Maple Leaf Red. Got 7 mpg whether you were rolling downhill or towing a house. Rode like a brick with square wheels. Back window never worked from the dash switch and it would stop and rest whenever it felt like it.…

I know these things bring a pretty penny in good shape, but this one isn't pretty, and they aren't getting any of my pennies.

I like this car for all the points you make above. I am not as generous in price: I’d go to $4,500, mebbe $5,000 MAX. For that kind of “screw it” money, it’s a cute, clean, “drive around in the Summer”fun car. That being said, I kinda hope he gets his price though, if greedy scumbag dealers can get $10,000 over…

You have put more thought into this comment than any of the engineers at GM put into the Cavalier. 

For $10,500? A Cavalier? I don’t care it it’s a convertible. Hell, I wouldn’t care if it also included a modest vacation package to the glorious sunkist beaches of Puerto Rico valued at $5,500, while Vanna White herself flips the final letters as I solve “My wife is leaving me because I bought a Cavalier for $10,500.”