Given the sticker on the back window, it looks like they just “borrowed” a new one off of the lot, to get the job done. I doubt that the ultimate buyer will ever be told about it . . .
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Jalops are the wrong audience for this. It’s the spiritual successor of the Chrysler Sebring convertible, something for the aging country club crowd who want something both topless and spacious, inside.
That’s not a “three-on-the tree”, that’s an old=school column shifter for the automatic transmission.
1974, headed out of Colorado, back to Kentucky, with 16 cases of Coors in my ‘65 Corvair, when the Powerglide decided to crap out. The only (and my first) rental car that I could get was a VW bug with a 4-speed. Jumped in and figured it out.
There are a few in St Louis, including a mid-century modern office building - https://www.friedmanrealestate.com/haul-for-one-u-haul-adapts-reuses-abandoned-buildings/ and https://goo.gl/maps/YTjfwfsvuCgjox7XA
If you’re doing a wrap, I’d vote for an abstract geometric leaf pattern, maybe something like Schumacher’s version -
Buy it. Drive it ‘til it dies. Replace. If it lasts 6 months ($400/month), you break even. If it lasts a year ($200/month), you’re money ahead. The only caveat is that you need one or more, similar, ticking time bombs, in your stable, so that there’s no last-minute scramble for a replacement.
For the same year, miles and condition, I’m guessing that a Camry would be the same price, if not more. For me, I’d trade unique and powerful, for boring and reliable. NP!
I had an ‘09 Tacoma that CR downgraded because they were built with a batch of bad radios, that were replaced under warranty. I didn’t view that as a major reliability problem - the truck was still very much driveable - but going from the typical 0.02 Toyota defects-per-vehicle to what, 0.52, apparently was . . . TL:DR…
Not a project that I’d be interested in completing, but a NP for someone who would be. The sum of the parts is actually more than the asking price for the parts, “some assembly required”, which is kinda unusual.
Colorado’s white-on-green plates are way better than their green-on-white ones (like you’re showing).
Don’t most disasters also include a disruption to the local power grid? Making it difficult, if not impossible, to recharge?!
I can see both sides, on this issue. Brand consistency and clean, inviting dealerships, staffed by well-trained, not-obnoxious, sales staff, are important. Dropping millions, to build / rebuild something, up to ever-changing corporate “standards”, every decade, is a colossal waste of dollars, dollars that customers…
Not like northern Illinois, since there’s far less ice & snow in southern Illinois.
It’s outside St. Louis, not near Chicago or Wisconsin . . .
Given the otherwise good presentation, by the seller, what’s up with the windshield wipers?! (ND, for me.)
CP, when new (they literally had to give them away - you could get one for “free”, when you bought a new Chevy), triple CP, now, especially in this condition.
We just need electric fire trucks and bulldozers to fight the wildfires . . .
Why would someone in Colorado be selling an AWD vehicle right before winter? To get a better price? Or because it’s not all that good, in the snow?