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0-60 time:  Nope.

I can smell the inside of this thing from Sacramento.

I know we’re talking about today’s car, but...

Fucking Freb.  He can order a pizza like nobody’s business.

Read the article?

FTFY

My FIL has a ‘63 Tempest convertible. In addition to the funky rear transaxle and rope drive, it is powered by a 194.5 cubic inch four cylinder made from a 389 essentially cut in half. Also a very small 4 barrel carburetor.

No, they shipped full of fluids. There was some changes to the design noted in an article in Railway Age about these: “The Vega’s engineers had to design a special engine oil baffle to prevent oil from entering the No. 1 cylinder of the car’s inline-four engine. Batteries had filler caps located high up on the rear

The most interesting thing about this listing is it reminded me of the Vert-A-Pac rail cars GM had designed and built for shipping these.

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*if* this was a factory-build Super Bugger with the engine swap and was in nice condition, it would be a NP. This hunk is NONE of those things.

Okay, just 1 of you 14 fuckwits - defend yourself. I want to hear WHY.

Can’t buy because my dog would definitely urine’s all over it.

FUCK YOU, COPPER!

It’s actually kind of uncanny how similar they look.

Guess you got a good one.  I have heard that the driver can have a lot to do with the longevity.

Only 113K of them still on the road as of April according to Polk. 

Oh definitely - they are solid little cars except for that abysmal automatic transmission.

I really wanted to like the C-Max, but yeah - didnt sell all that well then and dropping like flies now according to Polk.

Subtle use of the hyperlink underline. I see what you did there.