Yes, or the owners are people for whom a few thousand dollars is pocket change, so quick conversation “we really should sell the old diesel since nobody drives it anymore” “ok, I will take it to the shop and have the maintenance done” tells local shop guy who they use and trust to get it ready to sell. $5000 later car…

Why do you spend $5k on a car you are going to list for $8k and sell for $7-7500 most likely. Was it worth $2500 before the work was done? I know not everything is done as a strictly “rationale economic equation” basis. and I understand wanting to sell a decent car to somebody, like of the brakes or tires are bad you…

It seems to be in nice shape, rare, convertible, 5 speed, talks to you, Radwood eligible, but....yeah...no.

That is the vibe I get, not giving them my CC # ever.

Well I am a lifetime old British sports car guy and I love small light and agile, but despite my love of the type, and the Elan ranks right up there as one of the best of the type, this is not the droid I am looking for.  Overpriced and then there is the whole seller/ad thing.  Just no.

Good call on the flame suit, never occured to me anybody would think those are good looking.

I thought the latest generation Miata looked good in pictures, but when I saw it in the flesh it looked too tall and stubby. The hardtop version fixes those issues and looks much better to me.  The Fiata looks better too, but no longer available new.

Do the mods void the warranty? Would make a huge difference to me if I were seriously looking at it. Google says BMW factory is four years and 50,000.

My first thought was, wow that has depreciated a lot in 7,000 miles.  Second thought is there is a lot more room for it to fall.  But if you want one and don't care if it is brand new these seems like a decent deal.  The mods seem fairly tasteful and don't detract from the car (I had no idea it was modified from the…

There seem to be an inordinate number of people who seem to have the smarts or ability or whatever it takes to make a lot of money, but no corresponding skills on what to do with it.

Having lived most of my life with manual windows, and remembering the crappy, slow unreliable power windows on many cars in the 70s, holding a button or four for a few seconds isn’t that big a hardship.  Whiners

Yeah, the concept is ok, but every car that I have had with it, there is no discernible step between controlled up down and auto up down.  Our relatively new Subaru is the worst, but my old Lexus is bad too, as has been every other car that has it.  I would rather there was no auto up down because it is so poorly…

Would you be better off spending five grand more and getting a spider that is a little less rough around the edges (or just not rusty)? Sure. But not everybody has the extra five grand to spend all at once. A running driving Alfa at $3k is nice price if you are an impecunious kid who wants something interesting or an…

I know you didn’t ask me, but boo er here too. I wasn’t a fan of early 70s full size American land yachts when growing up either, and I am still more of a fan of small, stylish and sporty stuff. But they have a certain appeal now. Not so much nostalgia (my closest encounter was a huge two door Buick my then girlfriend…

I like it, if you break it down into price per passenger vs 2 seat and 4 seat options the deal seems better.  Hop in my Chrysler (product) its as big as a whale and about to set sail.  Nice Price

I look on Google maps and see an open gas station I can access, I guess I am an idiot for not assuming (around here everything is within a dime of each other) gas costs the same there as everywhere else. If I have been there before I am an idiot, I bet the guy doesn’t do much business from repeat customers.

This seems like a good deal to me, anybody that buys a German car this old had better have a good mechanic or so the work themselves. The preventative stuff on the cooling system (if not done) is not that expensive to do yourself.

I am a car guy and I know people but nobody asks me to sell their car for them, they do ask me to go look at cars with them sometimes.   I believe you it happens, but just seems weird how often, and kind of frustrating contacting people and them saying they know nothing about the vehicle, call so and so.

I don't think anybody is collecting these, especially ones with over 150,000 miles.  I see a $6500 used SUV that stands out as being one of the nicer vehicles in a low rent part of town third hand models used car dealership.  No dice.

This is a cool car in nice shape. When I first saw the picture I thought easy nice price. A closer look at the car and description makes the choice a little harder.