When the necessary repairs exceed the purchase price of the next vehicle, that’s when you dump it.

Paint problems notwithstanding, this is an absolute steal. This leaves money in the bank to take it someplace at least one-and-a-half steps up from Maaco and get a new layer or three shot onto it.

One would think that, in the context of a prisoner’s dilemma sort of scenario like this - because that’s what it is with a few modifications - they would own up as largely and transparently as possible in order to minimize any negative ramifications.

For everybody weirded out by the dash shifter:

A nearly 20 year old Civic isn’t worth $8000 unless the original factory plastic is still on the seats and the odo is reading in the teens.

I tend to agree.  And yet so many of the markers that would indicate a market correction is due are missing, so I’m just hella confused anymore.

Is that the sort of business where you refer to customers as “marks?”

Am I being irrational when I ask, is there any reason why these guys don’t just fold up their tents and quit?

You say, “inherent and permanent,” allow me to add: “and visible at all times.”

Yeah, I recommended Fingerprints Workshop to these pages a couple of months ago on some other Fiero-related thing, don’t remember what it was exactly. I’ve been watching that and it’s been a blast, though I was a teensy bit surprised when he opted to keep the Duke unmodified. Even a Duke can be woken up a little bit,…

God help me, I want it.

It seems to me that both manufacturers and buyers alike are desperate to call it something besides a hatchback, that name having been synonymous with entry-level economy cars in the decades when today’s adults were kids quietly dying inside as they shuttled back and forth to school in the back seat of Mom’s eminently…

I’m not a Camaro fan, but if I were in the market for one that sounds like the one I’d want. In my paradigm of slow car fast, this would be middlin’ car fast, the speed you build is the speed you keep with the trackhappy handling kit.

Since no deaths are attributed to the crime we’re discussing, then like this is okay.

I lean toward an older car.

My guess is that the entire movie is ridiculous, the effects cheap and unbelievable, so what the hell?  Blow-up Vin Diesels for everybody!  Cardboard Rock, go!

This isn’t a prank. This is malicious mayhem.

I think the proper course of action is to find grey T-shirt guy and return his wheel to him.

It might be a compelling story except this particular emperor has no clothes. The more I look at it the more convinced I become that the car is a mockup or an actual 412 after a lot of restyling work.

I clicked the link and was surprised to see the ad was still up. Evidently the truck is not yet sold.