I’ll still vote crack pipe (at least in my comments) when it is the right thing to do. 

Even stretching my window this wide (______O______), I still get the hidden recaptcha.

Same here: no response from clicking the “Submit” button.

My vote: Crack Pipe on Craigslist still beats a Crackpot in the Whitehouse, but a crack pipe nonetheless!

I almost bought this car. I called him at talked at length about it. Two things prevented me from flying to Chicago and buying it:

You’ve got to admire the seller for showing this parked between two normal but seemingly giant trucks!

There is no good price for this. Either you want it or you don’t. There is nothing about this in any way that makes sense.

As a connoisseur of nonsense, I want this tru—- whatever it is.

3-year-olds make more rational decisions than some 50-year-old males I’m aware of (self included).

Well NADA guides says $1400 to $2700 is the market range for this car. So even $3200 is a bit high. Nice enough car. They were fun in their day, and I liked them. $2200, and I’d be in. Whatever happened to the Acura Vigor, by the way?

In my fantasy world it works somewhat more like this:

I agree completely with your speculations about the seller’s motive. I love these cars. I put nearly 300K on a 1976 245 wagon. I paid for college in part by learning how to fix people’s Volvo fuel injection systems.

I categorically would not pay nearly 8K for one.

I actually want this car. I like the audacious (almost, but not really ugly) color scheme. I love a big four-seat convertible. This is a really nicely done conversion. I’d be willing to pay almost 20% of his asking price for it—heck maybe up to 30%.

Again, a reason to like the Mercedes E-class wagons: rear-facing pop-up seats!

I _do_ understand the notion of a sporty wagon. My dream car (ok, one of my many, many dream cars—I have a rich automotive fantasy life) is the Mercedes E63 AMG 4-matic wagon. Brutal beast, snow and ice capable, family hauler, it ticks every box.

What plots are there beyond trying to get laid? 

Years ago, around when the CLK came first came out actually, one of the Bay Area Mercedes dealers was running a radio add. It described the feeling of cruising through town with the top down singing loudly to your favorite song on the amazing audio system and feeling perfect and suave and smooth, Then you see an…

I’m intrigued by the “72-moth financing.” Do the moths have to be alive, or can I collect them from under my bug zapper?

Test drove a beautiful Jaguar XJ6 once. The seller wanted to show us the car in action first, so he drove it up Academy Rd. to the base of the mountain. Then we switched drivers and he had us drive it back down to his apartment. Academy is a nice road, not too steep, but at no point in its length does it go downhill…

Decades ago, before I existed, when car seats didn’t have headrests and fuel injection was a dream of the far future, the local Jaguar dealer in Atlanta told my father:
“The real thrill of owning a jaguar is that moment of anticipation you feel in the morning before opening the garage door to see what fell off during…

I wish I didn’t agree with you. I love these little beasts, but they really aren’t outstanding cars. They were very good cars in their day, but other than their design, they weren’t outstanding. Their design was outstanding. $2500 or even $2900 seems about right.

I can attest to that. I bought a 2000 Mercedes C230 Kompressor Sport with 235K miles for $3K some years back. The thing came with every possible receipt, including turn-signal lightbulbs. It had had every recommended service slightly before the recommended interval. The thing ran like new and didn’t leak any fluids…

These were great little trucks in their day. I learned to drive in the early 80s in a ‘73 Datsun pickup. We used that thing in on logging roads all over northern NM, filling it over its capacity with firewood and latillas. I even jumped the thing twice (accidentally), going over bridge humps on dirt roads way, way too…