Yeah, I know.  I was trying to make a funny.  Guess I’ll stick with designing shit.

The biggest problem is the weight and abundance of iron. A lot of scrappers just pick up everything they see, most of which is steel. When you get into copper and aluminum, you start getting good prices for the effort. Radiators are Aluminum and Zinc, and pretty heavy, so they are probably the most valuable. Electric…

You get paid on the haul away and you get paid at the dump. You are making money on both ends if you’re doing it right. If your only goal is to just make enough to survive, then you’re doing fine.

David, you left out the part where you had to frantically wave the crane operator away when he tried to grab your truck.

It will NEVER smog in California because the 4.8 is a truck motor. CARB won’t let you run a 2020 truck motor in a 1976 car, let alone a 1999 truck motor in a 1998 car.

Well analyzed, although I’d love the engine transplant more if he’d gone properly through smog approval for the engine swap (a 4.8 Vortec should at least meet the “as new as or newer than the car” criterion) instead of simply scheming to register the car out of state.

Yup.  CARB is really persnickety when it comes to engine swaps, and I’ll bet the major sticking point with this car is that he swapped in a truck engine.

This is too much for what it is. And, the price screams he’s trying to get his money back out. Sorry, not going to happen. And, not paying a premium for someone's unfinished project.

CA is not the real world. ;-)

Unless you got damned lucky there never were. Were I am from, ME, if it passes inspection, it’s worth a couple of grand, minimum. If it doesn’t pass inspection, it’s worth what a junkyard will give you for it in most cases, because if it was something cheap and easy it would be fixed and inspected already.

No, for a $2k you do your own PPI. If you can’t personally tell if it’s a good vehicle, you shouldn’t be buying $2k cars.

Michelins is universal language for “I took care of my ride.”

Yeah, I was hovering over NP until I took a good look at that interior shot, you’d probably have to strip everything out just to get rid of the “rodents drowned in piss” smell.

That’s actually the maximum rodent capacity of this rat motel.

• Tesla

I’m making a right turn out of the authorized Tesla repair facility, and the roof flies off.

It was at this very moment when the thief realized that he should have spent more time on Jalopnik studying up on turning radius.

Plot twist, all the numbers are just KMH with the KMH scribbled out and MPH in crayon in their place.

Everything makes a lot more sense that way.

Nothing. I want to know nothing about this monument to idiocy.

Goddammit, I can’t read! I thought this was a 98... sigh. I’m taking back my NP.