The market is absurd, and I cannot condone it. No dice!

Just because stupid people out there are willing to pay stupid money for a truck like this doesn't mean I'm joining in.   Plenty of other reasons for my wife to call me an idiot but I'll skip this one. 

NP I want it.

You remember the old joke about how a Yugo doubles in value if you fill the gas tank? I think the value of a Fiat doubles if you have a trunk full of maintenance records. This will not be a reliable car, but at least you’ll have some idea of what to expect based on records of what has already been done. This…

GET OUT MAH WAY!!!

Very recent Street View. Drink it all in. There’s even a Montero on the lot.

One always has to ask about a mechanic special-if indeed it is just a fuel pump, why not spend the cash and get ‘er done, and sell it for $3K?
Well because maybe the non-running engine is hiiding a bad head gasket, worn out engine, non-functional transmission, or maybe even that the fuel pump isn’t running because the…

Yup. A Corvair van is interesting, but this example may haunt my dreams.

Hmmm... Greenbriers are really rare. Is this thing worth restoring given it looks like a reasonably nice shell under all those bad mod?

Seems beyond fixing, at least to my idea of what that would entail. If 12-year-old me had bought a Revell model kit of this van and decided to “improve” it, the result would probably look something like this. Rectangular sealed beams? Full-perimeter body extension? A bumper off something else? No, no, no.

I want someone to fix it and make it amazing. Bass-boat metal-flake paint job. Better wheels. Period interior. Maybe a Subaru H6 motor.

One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small...

Oh maybe I SHOULD buy it then. I want people to stay away from me. I dont really care why they are doing it. Out of respect to my boundaries or they think Im a bag-o-douche, it matters not.

So much to work with here:

This is my go to gif for cars that have been butchered by a prior owner. Glad to see it applied to this fright pig. 

Those “upgrades” are horrific.

Sorry.  That picture is the LAST of the V8 Interceptors.

Rob Emslie is our poet.

Yeah you could put another 10 grand in it to get in decent shape and have a collector car easily worth 7-8 grand.

The turbine wheel covers are factory and have centers that poke out in amazing fashion, just like Friends-era Jennifer Aniston’s nipples.