I’m staying the hell out of this one. I know enough to know that I don’t know a thing about what it takes to run a rally.

Don’t give him ideas.

I just want to know how the hell they got it titled as a 1976 Lotus, considering that I’m reasonably sure that there isn’t a single part of that car that existed in 1976.

How can you possibly get more foolish than buying an inop Jeep for $700 a thousand miles away and rigging your schedule such that you have to get it running and driving well enough to make that thousand miles back on the Interstate in order to get home to make a deadline?! I mean, you’re already well past Florida Man…

All the more NP, then!

Neutral: I check for recalls whenever a news story mentions the vehicle(s) I own. That happens often enough (about twice a year, I’ve found) that I haven’t missed one.

‘93 ZJ? Careful, that’s the call of the wild David Tracy...

Wilkommen! Now give her your wallet.

A running, driving 4WD with a reasonably nice interior and zero rust? $2400? NP all day long. Wiggle the connectors, clean up the sensors, hang a diagnostic device on the OBD port, and drive it until it falls apart.

I can’t say I’ve owned a BMW, but I’ve owned two Lexuses and five Mercedes. The one thing that Lexus gives you (outside of an absolutely hideous front end) is utter reliability. I like my 2015 ML250 Bluetec, but I hold no illusions that it will be as trouble-free as the two RXs I had.

Meh. Chop the noses off of those and they’d be fine, but that spindle grille has to go.

This one gets 6 out of 5.

Sing it with me now...

I had a 1975 Granada. Got it as a graduation present in 1977, with 50K miles on it. 250 CID straight-6, could barely get out of its own way. Transmission disintegrated a couple of months after I got it, too.

A friend says that Dodge is what you should do if someone offers to sell you one...but this one, in this condition, and this rare (how many of these, fully restored, are out there? Damned few, I’ll wager), is worth it. NP to me.

If the speedometer isn’t working, the project isn’t complete.

Yup. For 19 large of someone else’s project I expect it to be complete and fully operational and without body flaws. This one? CP, and that’s before thinking about what that heavy engine did to the S2000's handling.

I like the looks, though I’d de-tint the windows.

Honda? Three pedals? Acura interior? $3K? Nothing major wrong? NP all day.

Houston’s not exactly a cold climate.