I’m going to be the contrarian. If it’s mechanically sound as advertised, you’re one paint job away from a neat, useful example of something you no longer see every day.

This is the vehicle I want to give the full Singer, carbon fiber, screamer motor, whale penis interior treatment.

We had one, purchased new, and beyond oil changes and other consumables, never had a single problem in the 5 or 6 years we owned it. I’d guess it was at 100,000+ when we traded it in. Thinking back over all the cars we’ve owned, the Pontiacs were always solid rides and largely trouble-free.

My car prejudices give way to an almost irrational fondness for Pontiac. My uncle had a ‘74 Grand Prix that was just the coolest thing my little self had ever seen, so much so that I bought one in my late teens and drove that thing from 40k to 200k without a shade of problem, and I did it in 3 years. You do…

Love the cloth, love the manual. It’s on the high side for a hard-ridden unicorn, but I’d polish its horn. (Wait… what?)

It’s always surprising to me (still) when people think that electric cars are the cure-all to everything that ails us. It’s absolutely better for the environment than petrol-powered cars, but just like everything else, comes with its own issues. Metal mining is going to explode in the next 5-10 years as battery…

You stay right where you are.  I’m calling the authorities.

Never understood interior guys, if the seats are comfortable and the stereo is loud, it’s fine. Stop look around at everything but the road! =) 

My complaints about today’s trucks are well illustrated by this truck. It’s a work vehicle, fitted out like a work vehicle. You would not worry about getting in this thing while wet and/or filthy. As long as the heat/AC/defrost works and the radio and BT adapter work, this is a NP, given the insane market.

*Which* “government?” State? Local? Federal government agencies have a distinct appropriation fund called “Operations and Maintenance” just to pay for upkeep, and most often permanent employees just to take care of capital investments. The fact that (most? all?) parts were replaced with OEM stuff suggests that not…

There’s nothing I like better than grilled Hormiga sausages. 

Those pressure’s aren’t really all that crazy. I mean, if the highest pressures you’re familiar with is the 120psi cycling tire, sure, 10k sounds like a ton. I regularly work with pressurized fluids and gases at about 5x higher than that range, in substantially higher volumes, for primarily combustibles. In some cases…

I have some sheet metal and a couple windows and a truck frame sitting around, some pallets from the local nursery, and a free weekend so I’ll build one for myself. Noooooo Dice.

The original nose was always the best thing about this car. The stacked headlights made it sadly generic. Superficial? Maybe, but if you’re collecting this kind of car, it’s all about the style. ND for me.

I look at that rear bumper and suspect there’s more rust to be found.

A quick VIN check shows that this Alpha went through 3 owners up until now. The original sold it at 33.4K in 2019, 2nd at 55.9K in 2020, and the current owner at 72K with the first listing starting back in Jan 2022. It seems like the previous owners were playing hot potato with it, squeezing out a bit of fun while…

Alfas rely a LOT on power from the battery (ex. brake by wire and electric power steering). I’m a member of a couple Alfa groups (I own and DD a 2018 Giulia Ti Sport Q4), and the default answer for any issue is “change the battery”. The OE batteries in the 2017s are know to have (and cause) issues that go away when…

“We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.”

If you drive the car at all I don’t think you’ll get ANY money back. In another 20k that car’s going to be ready for a nice donation to Kars4Kids or https://carshelpingveterans.org/ . If the owner can’t be bothered to remove a twig under the hood ornament - even when he provides a closeup of that ornament - I can only…

There’s a lot less moving parts in this option