I hope I’m not stating the obvious here, but...why not just get a manual version of this car? I’m pretty sure they were built and sold here as manuals.

I’m gonna disagree on the coilovers - the suspension on an MR2 I bought a few years ago had basically turned to dust from lack of care. The coilovers I had put on are fantastic - a little firm, but they’re good for a sports car and offer great handling. Coilovers on a 7 series? Yeah, dumb. But on a purpose built…

Imagine being the guy that shows up to the racing school and passes on the Mustang and thinks “yeah…I’m Steve McQueen, but with the kids in the back”.

This thing’ll go straight from unibody to many pieces as soon as you drive it off. Is the battery just…sitting there? Where’s the driver side brake light? This thing is a bucket of bolts, but I’m sure some boomer will buy it.

In my experience the broken BMW parts usually go in the back of the truck.

Was going to be my exact comment. Writes for a CAR BLOG but says “forget all the gorgeous historic cars in a Jalop heaven and let me play golf instead.”

Raph and Erik don’t know much of anything really.

Shhhhh, he probably doesn’t know.

An old rich person’s sport that horrible for the environment and historically racist!

I think there must be a “stupidest blogger award”. It’s a fierce competition between Raph, Erik, and Bradley. 

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.”

we should probably crush every car made before the mid-’80s

“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…

“The car comes with service records — always a good thing with a Ferrari — and a CarFax that shows no mystery in its history.”

Seriously, at least put a little effort into a car you’re trying to sell for 35k. I know they probably don’t have time, which is why they’re getting rid of the car, but come on. Take it in for a service, even if it’s not a major one. Fix that bumper. Address the windows. Make someone who was looking at $60k Ferraris…

The secret to making a small fortune flipping old Ferraris is to start with a large one.

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

People often don’t realize that you don’t just have one credit score. Different lenders have different scores for different purposes. They may all pull from the same credit agencies, but they may also include other publicly-available information about you (age, marital status, even educational attainment). It’s…

Weirdly enough, I applied for a Target card with a 700+ credit score and got denied. Never figured that one out.