I had the Celebrity version of this and can confirm that 10 foot boards will fit in there with the hatch closed but the end will rest on the dash. I was on my way home from Home Depot 25 ish years ago and got hit - the boards slid forward into the windshield and broke it.

I both love and hate you for the Heartbeeps reference. Take your damn star.

It doesnt apply to this much newer model but I remember there being at TSB for the early A-body Century where using the horn would cause the vehicle to stall.

Sure, semantics really. The lack of structural inspection floors me and has for the two decades I’ve been here and in the business. There is an inspection program that is available, but it is for consumers who have concerns about their repairs performed by a repair facility. Its not tied at all to the reregistration…

That does lend credence to it possibly being a flood car but a brand new plate and a salvage title even without the rains are definite indicators something is likely afoot.

I had an aunt that worked for Mattel in the mid 70s.  I got more than one pre-production car and being a kid I totally played with them.  They’d probably be worth a bit of coin today.

Oh you hit me right in the feels.  I was maybe 5 and my dad took a 2' square of cardboard, a marker and ruler and made me a “town” with the local supermarket and some other landmarks with roads and parking spaces.  I played with that thing until it completely fell apart.

One of my favorites is this Corgi VW “Driving School” that came with a set of cones. I had one as a kid, literally drove the tires off of it and found that Lego tires were a serviceable replacement. I recently spent 30 bucks and bought another off of ebay. Its on my desk and I play with it regularly still.

As a Sacramentan, a mechanic, and a former smog tech whos seen salvage cars going through the “rebuild” process here all I can say is

Yeah, this one has all kinds of red flags for me.

California does not have a “rebuilt” title status. It’s “Salvaged”. There is a also a “Salvage Certificate” which is not a title although it is often referred to as a “junk slip”. That is an ownership document that is issued when a vehicle is deemed a total loss (for whatever reason) and the original, non branded…

This is in Sacramento and we did have a crap ton of non-typical flooding recently. I’d really want to see the VIN and do some research to see if this thing has been through the auction. The brand new CA plates along with a plate frame from a dealer in Washington state has me believing this thing is a recent salvage…

Those are California plates (newly issued as it starts with a 9) and the license plate frame is from a Washington dealership.  This thing came from an auction I’d bet.

Seller is a shit curbstoner who has literally PAGES worth of keywords pasted at the bottom of the ad.

Came here to post this, not at all mad I got beat to it. Fuck sellers like this and this tells me all I need to know about the car.

The whole time I watched the Tesla video all I heard was this guy

Don’t care about the report. So happy to see the IIHS sled sporting some new kicks. Finally ditched the old Grand Marquis wheels.

My good buddy Zak’s CTS-V wagon. He had “WHT WHLE” vanity plate on it.  

Standard procedure for those pics is to turn the ignition on (if possible) and take a pic of the cluster.  My guess is that they snapped the pic as the cluster was going through its startup with a sweep of the speedometer. 

I especially love the fact that someone has already stuffed one of these up before they got through the first tank of fuel.