The Jaguar XK6 engine.  This inline 6 was used in the XK150, E-Type, and various sedans.

If you pay cash, you won’t be upside down.

Nothing more satisfying than pressure washing the s**t out of anything so you can start over with doing it right. I once bought a house from lifetime smokers and PW,d the entire inside ; then burned all the furniture, drapes and carpets.

Were that Niva in red, orange, yellow or white instead of slightly-less-than-neon green, i’d strongly consider it...

How about this, for the low, low price of only $13,500?

The older I get, the more often I find the answer is just capitalism.

That is a crazy story but how nice that you have something in your possession that your dad wanted enough to buy.

No, it isn’t.

Thanks, Jalopnik contributor David Obuchowski thought so too!

I agree with your assessment of the half-assed make it cool culture for hiding necessary functions. I think the manual was not in the car.

This is going to become a bigger and bigger problem in the coming years. Lots of bike sharing companies are abandoning cities. In Florence one of the companies left after a couple of months but donated all the leftover bikes to a local cooperative of ex-inmates who restored them and sold them.

I wasn’t told this, but .....

Meh.

Like that time I got my SAAB almost completely put back together after replacing the clutch disc - all I needed to do was bolt the hood back on - when I saw, lying on the floor of the garage, the circlip that was supposed to hold the throwout bearing on.