That autotrader car has been for sale FOREVER. I saw it when I was looking back in February. If it's really still for sale (lots of sold cars on Autotrader), there's some story.

Thanks. I had no idea.

We are fortunate that our local C&C is small - rarely exceeding 30 cars I'd say. We've done NOTHING except say "hey, on the 2nd Saturday of every month we go to this place and park in the row away from the Starbucks." The closest thing to organization we have is a Facebook page that says the same thing. The only…

The following is completely true: reverse never fully engages the clutch. It slips all the time. If you have the need to back up far or up a slope, after a time the car starts beeping at you to warn you that it's overheating and please don't do that. TL;DR; Yeah, it probably catches on fire if you use reverse too…

Ferrari calls that "grigio titanio". Mine's that color. :) I really like it. In the right light, it really highlights the shape of the body.

This particular car was for sale in June 2010 in Riverside, CA for $67,900 w/27k miles (thanks Google!). That was a fair bit below market at the time, suggesting a story. I looked at several 360s in the 70-75k range at the time. Every Single One looked pretty in the pictures and was a mess up close.

Since we're talking about US prices here, the luxury tax on automobiles expired in 2002.

Sigh. Someone has to be "that guy" and suggest anyone who really can't put $3600 into the deal probably shouldn't be acquiring (I almost said "buying") a $30k+ car. I guess I'm that guy today.

Owning a Factory Five Cobra replica, self-assembled and -painted, I found I encounter "how I would have done it guy". "Oh, only a 5.0? *I* would have to put a gen-U-ine FOUR TWENTY SEVEN in mine. And real knock offs. Power steering? No way!" and so on. How-I-would-have-done-it-guy arrived in a Camry or Minivan…

HAHAHAH. At 44, I've finally grown into the kinds of cars I've been driving for 20 years. I feel like I need bumper stickers - "I owned this when I was young dammit!"

The dry sump adds quite a bit of time to a 360 oil change too because you have to check the oil warm. Also, most people are going to want pull the gigantic belly pan, which takes for-damn-ever, to give everything a once-over.

Unfortunately, no matter how gentle you are with the clutch, the clutch release bearing is cast from dryer lint and good intentions (<-slight exaggeration) and can fail or the seals go bad. Either way, the trans comes out.

The 26k looks like fat fingers at the computer terminal. Maybe they have an algorithm that makes some simple checks against typical errors? A '90 Ford Bronco must have 196k, given 145k in 2002, no? 5 digit odo? Makes perfect sense for a 2nd car or winter beater to have gone 50k in the past 12 years.

At the risk of life and limb stepping into the maelstrom, I notice that the Justice Department link is 20 years old when most used cars would still have mechanical odometers. Have you seen much tampering with modern cars? I'm sure it's possible but probably requires a fair bit of backwards engineering for each brand…

My read is that it's very difficult for a non-fabricator to do it for <$10k and I suspect most spend far more. I spent some time reading a good LS1Tech thread (as I suspect you have done) and I could see a lot of nickel and diming going on.

This is far more involved that it looks on the surface. According to a thread on LS1tech.com, Renegade charges $29,000 PLUS an engine. Just the basic swap parts (no electronics, no exhaust) are $6500 from Renegade.

No free lunch, unfortunately. It's not cheap when you look into the details to do it *right* and the relatively short Porsche gearing (6th works out numerically to be equivalent to about 5th out of 7 in a C7) would get old with an LSx.

That list is a bunch of trivial stuff. The 4 cylinder cars are stout and easy to work on. I've owned two. An '86 Turbo and a '95 S4s. Both were easier - and far cheaper - to own than any Ferrari.

937 replies? You're doing something right, Doug. Random stream-of-conciousness balancing comments for everyone thinking "see, those cars suck!":

I mis-read you earlier, thinking you were the buyer. You are the "local" interface if I understand correctly. My b-i-l told me his client sends "a few shiploads" every year.