Considering the top end on these things is ~120 km/h (downhill with a tailwind) ... one has to wonder exactly what the driver was doing ?

I love the car - partly because I owned a 1st gen years ago, and it was a good little urban warrior car.

That Lada is definitely not a 1957 - the Fiat-derived Ladas didn’t start production until 1972, after the Fiat 124 had been in production for quite some time, and Lada wasn’t even founded until 1966, and from what I can tell, didn’t start producing anything until the early 70s. 

A water bottle is now equivalent to firing on someone?

Fourth generation Honda Accord. Somehow managed to be peak Honda -generic, they were everywhere, people bought them and hung on to them until they dropped (practically never).

$7K for one of those? ND

... and for fun - an 87 Firefly with 1.0l i3 engine could out accelerate a Chevette - easily. 

Goody - talk about “more cubes” engineering - still doesn’t solve the utter crappiness of the car - it just means you have a slightly (and only slightly) faster moving pile of ... 

Rear fuel filler doors were just a bad idea looking for a place to happen from a collision perspective. Ford took that one on chin more for decidedly cynical corporate decision making.

Hard ND  - it’s a great specimen, but not $15 large worth.  Show me one in this kind of condition with the V6, and _maybe_ it’s worth $15K ... maybe.  But even there you’re still selling someone a malaise era econobox with a scarce option.

The “broken egg” headlights are just irredeemably fugly for me. There isn’t a single car from this era that tried this idea on for size that looks good to my eye.

It’s a 1985 car - it’s coming up on 40 years old, it’s not a rust bucket, and it (apparently) is in decent running shape.

If you want a GT-4 Celica, you want the 86-89 version. Much better looking car - the front ends on that mid-90s edition are absolutely awful.

There will never be anything “dope” about an old Cavalier.  They were disposable cars when they were made, and no amount of modding is ever going to cure the design deficits introduced by a need to make the cheapest car with the most margin possible. 

Hard NOPE.

There’s a reason the Fuego is “rare” - the things had a tendency to self-destruct remarkably quickly.

... and the first thing that will be coming out for these will be upgrade chips that bypass the subscription system.

$33K for a 13 year old F-150? Who is the seller kidding besides themselves?

Check carefully for rot around the back of the car - if it’s generally solid, NP - especially for a now 40 year old car - a good starting point for a project.

ND for me - I’ve come to see wraps on a vehicle this age as the modern equivalent of a polyurethane spray back in the 90s - chances are it’s covering up all manner of evil.