Shhhhh, he probably doesn’t know.

Erik, car enthusiast: “Get these damn cars off my lawn so I can play a round of golf at a course with a greens fee higher than the total value of my car.”

“Get these amazingly crafted moving works of art out of there so that we can play an old rich person sport”

I supposed you’re right - someone out there might very well think this is a “nice price” and go for it - maybe someone with experience working on or rebuilding Ferraris. I still think that if you look a little harder you can find some in much better condition than this for around the same price, or $3-5k more, which…

If you really want a Ferrari and can only afford a $35k Ferrari, you can’t afford a Ferrari. No Dice.

I knew there were different scores for general credit and buying a home (a mortgage), but I guess I didn’t really realize that there were non-FICO proprietary scores. The murkiness of the whole process is baffling to me, especially as someone that came here as a young person and became a citizen later. Wish there…

I have a credit card with a $15k limit and up until a few months ago a car loan, but have been denied for things like financing of large home item purchases at Best Buy with 0% financing (like a set of new appliances). It baffles me how some of these credit-worthiness decisions are made, especially as someone that has…

I will never stop being amazed at the moronic financial decisions people make.

I picked the comparable ones - GT convertibles, since we want to compares apples to apples. None of the cars listed, not even the ones that sold for half the price, have such high mileage, and all are in much better condition than the one listed above.

See image for comps - the only convertibles sold for 16, 12, and 8, and the ones at 12 and 16 were half the miles and one-owner, respectively (and in much better color combinations and overall shape).  Even the $8,750 one has far fewer miles and looks to be in much better condition.

I did some digging through BaT and I don’t see those higher asking prices. In the last year the ones that went for $14-15k had less than half the miles, on average, and were in much more desirable colors or were special editions. I’m not sure this is in line with market prices, $9-10k would be more in line.

Hard No Dice on this one. Dug through Bring-a-trailer to look through some comps since I wasn’t familiar with pricing on these. Similar cars with fewer miles sold for about half to 3/4 the price (between $7k and $9k). There just isn’t that big of a collectible market for these. No matter how well maintained or nicely…

This is an absolute NP for a tidy little hardtop convertible that looks to be in good cosmetic and mechanical shape. They’re unique enough that I still take a nice long look whenever I see one parked or driving around. Quirky top, quirky interior, quirky 5 cylinder engine.

Boot and bonnet! Such great British slang for the car. Honorable mention goes to “bit of welly” when telling someone to push the car further, or try harder in a race (though I guess this isn’t strictly a car slang term.)

I play this game all the time in my manual here in DC.

Not sure about this take, Rory - I’m shopping this weekend for an automatic car and doing it specifically because my wife cannot drive a manual and doesn’t want to learn, since driving in a big city already makes her nervous.

I did some back of the napkin math, and the back of the Prowler has about 1.8 cubic feet of storage. You could put roughly 60 1-kilo (tightly packaged) bricks of cocaine back there. That means it would probably be worth around $800,000, assuming a kilo is worth between 13-15k.

Holy moly, I could not come down here fast enough to smash that ND button.

“Crack pipe, I used to have one, personally didn’t like it.”

Unless you want a garage queen BaT M3, this is probably the cleanest M3 you’re going to find on the market for this price. A quick glance through BaT shows that most of the E36 M3s they’ve sold this year have gone for between 17k and 21k, with a few outliers in the 40s. If you want to get a clean E36 M3, this isn’t a…