seems to me that a city where this class of vehicle is really practical and worth this kind of money is probably a city where driving yourself is such a PITA that you’d want to avoid it at any cost.

It’s that car you bought for your non-enthusiast mistress and it’s spent its entire existence being a lackluster 90's design malaise poster child. There has to be better places to start a $4500 project, like a proper Z car. ND

I used to live in Mat-Su valley a bit north of Anchorage, and there was a large Russian (as in real live from Russia) community there. If I was buying or selling and I heard that accent it was game over. There might be an honest one but I never met them.

I had a PT loser as a company car and hated it for the general lack of any excitiement about it, the ridiculous oil tanker turning circle, but mostly because no matter that I drove it like a rental car, it refused to die so I had to keep driving it.

If the owner went that cheap on the tires, what else have they gone cheap on? ND. 

Umm says who? I have used the word exactly as I intended. If you find that word offensive you need to stop being the thought police.

what assumption are you making son? 

My ex MIL had a Talon with all the goodies. Ex FIL took me for a ride, he being a dedicated old school Corvette/SBC guy and he told me it went better than his old vette. It was a revelation for what a small turbo performance car could achieve, and yeah the looks were edgy at the time, better than the Eclipses that…

I haven’t seen a decent 1st generation Probe for a decade. Second generations were so dull looking I might have seen one but couldn’t care!

It’s still CP. Sure the AWD TT’s are rising stars but this boat isn’t rising with them. It might be in a remarkable state of preservation and a coupe but performance wise it’s dare I say, 90's malaise. 

Not this ghetto spec Stealth. AWD twin turbo or GTFO. This one’s no better than a Probe or similar FWD 2 door coupe. CP for decontentment.

NP for the general condition and WA license plate. It’s in decent shape and even though I usually don’t go for malaise era cars this one’s nice for it’s age and you can drive it until the cows come home and then you can use the cow peelings to update the seat.

at the time these came out there were a couple companies making 5thwheel/gooseneck hitches that attached to the roof of cars. My dad looked into it but decided that it wasn’t as secure as a weight distrubtiing hitch on the old Buick Skylark.

and more to your point, HD buyers are committed to the image of a big loud bike that ID’s as a HD, and have proven they won’t buy anything else from anyone. The thought that HD can convince the faithful to buy a livewire is laughable, and the rider who wants an EVMC isn’t going to wander into the beardy tattooed…

If I’d put that much work into a project I’d want to keep it for longer than the shakedown cruise. The seller must have that much or more into this and while it’s kinda neat it’s a project that has the appearance of something he did for himself, because I’m not feeling it and I imagine most others aren’t either. 

I think I’d rather go with the Rivian, a clean sheet over a reworked F150. Either one over the ghastly Tesla Triangle.

If you have to pay someone to maintain and repair it, buy a Toyota. This is not for you.

Ii had a rodent nest catch fire in my squarebody, didn’t burn the truck down but was an interesting drive home.

This seems another solution in search of an actual problem. I rented a GeezerGlide in Vegas and falling over was the least of our worries. Mostly the lack of power and wondering if Eaglerider was going to charge us for scraping the foot boards around every corner. 

Lucas is shocked that you question this, given current market conditions being grounded in electric.