Apparently someone made the ultimate Nice Price decision; the post was removed, usually indicating someone out there bought it.  Maybe Jalopnik earned its commission?

I reluctantly voted NP. These cars weren’t exactly reliable when new, and 265,000 miles isn’t likely to improve matters. Still, I always thought they were cool.  I couldn't resist--though I probably would if it were MY $6.000.

The Darwin Awards would tell you:  Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented and motivated fool.

The late P. J. O’Rourke once said that a 1960s or early-1970s Corvette with the side exhaust (wording approximate) could get high-centered “on your front lawn if you didn’t cut the grass for a week,” not to mention snow.  In his mind, that would make it the best winter car, since it would give you an excuse not to go…

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It is clean, and it will be difficult to find another like it, but $9500 is beyond even Barrett-Jackson money for this car.  ND.

I’m really on the fence on this. On the one hand, this is when Jaguar quality and reliability was at its worst. On the other hand, as one poster put it, this is not, and never will be again, a daily driver. On the one hand, it’s in beautiful condition. On the other, $13,900 is a bit high...

I’m saying NP because it doesn’t have the goods to make it “special.” No turbocharger to burn the oil and grenade the engine, no AWD to have its electronics go wonky, few interior electronics to suddenly stop working.  Its price is a bit on the ambitious side, but I have a soft spot for this model.  

I saw a book of his in a local Barnes & Noble. I was talking to my then-girlfriend about him on Top Gear, as she looked at the book. She pointed out to me that the book was completely comprised of blank pages.

If the car were left completely stock, it may be worth ... maybe $4,000.  As it is, the rims add another $500 or so, but the rest of the modifications cut the value (IMHO, of course) in half.

Registered, insured and fully drivable? I assume I’m wrong (or he doesn’t mean legally drivable), but weren’t vehicles of this vintage required to have windshield wipers?

You probably won’t find one this nice, at any price, but you probably wouldn’t want to.  ND.

For a museum or Jay Leno, maybe. But for almost anyone else, having this in your garage would be like having almost $200,000 sitting around waiting for an opportunity to catch fire.

Except that relatively few companies make sedans anymore.  Ford doesn’t.  

I’m not so sure. That was a 20-year-old (give or take) F-150, and a generation that had rusting problems. (At least the ones here in Michigan had them.) I would imagine that a current F-150, or a brand new rust-free 2002 model might do better.

Two things:

...and now I know that a steam car (or, apparently, at least that one) uses gasoline to heat its boiler.

Per the New York Post, it was a 1907 White steam car that erupted into flames. (No, I don’t know how a steam car can cause a gasoline fire—anyone who knows more, please feel free to enlighten me.)  https://nypost.com/2022/11/15/jay-leno-suffered-third-degree-burns-in-car-fire/

When did the Buick Grand National--or any Buick earlier than the 1970s--have a straight six engine?

Had it been kept non-AMG, with the worthwhile updates, it might have made me think at $40,000.  As it is, thank you anyway.