I love classic cars and respect oddballs and orphans. I have tried *really* hard to force myself to like Avantis, but I just don’t. The proportions and details are just so odd to me. The interior looks good, but could easily envisage it in a GM car.

Now a COYOTE on roller skates on the other hand...that could only end well.

I like the look of this car, analog gauges, 80's aggressive 3-box coupe with a slope, and just enough aero to look serious. And I have never been a fan of 80's GM. It looks like a fun cruiser, with just enough nostalgia. 

Close on the price. It’s unusual, pretty and garish at the same time. I’d argue cars of this era look better with their original wheels than the standard “it’s a hot rod, get it?” mags. (Apologies to Boyd Coddington’s ghost).

Sorry, modified, 190,000 miles, in primer, no interior pics, and bad ball joints. No Dice, I am out.

I wouldn’t worry about doing anything to the brakes; if you find yourself hurtling towards a corner with no brakes you could just turn on the AC and stop in no time.

Sure, it would need a lot of work. But it’s handsome, it’s unmolested, and it’s complete. That has to be the most charming dash I’ve seen in a while. And something about the intact headliner tells me this has life in it yet. NP.

A couple of observations:

Whenever somebody makes this remark about a fairly recent (last couple decades) older orphan mainstream model like a Saab or Saturn or the like I just chuckle.

Common parts - pads / shocks / filters etc are still on the shelves at regular autopart stores, everything else is available online. The 2.3 engine was used on the 9-5 as well. 

It’s priced at $6,500 now and it looks like the hood wrap is part of the company fleet (you can see it on the other trucks in the background).

Seems like you could just register it as it originally existed. I don’t recall titles listing which engine is under the hood. but then I don’t live in California. That’s how id do in in PA at least. PA doesn’t need to know what’s under there. if anything its a cleaner motor than the original carbureted inline 6.

I’ll go against the current here and say Nice Price.

It’s absolutely hideous. I want it SOOOOO bad! I would require a hood ornament replacement, though.  Some sort of a golden, topless Valkyrie with LED breasts.  I would be the KING of the trailer park

I don’t know why, but for some reason this seems to ping my flood damage sense. There doesn’t seem to be anything obvious saying that, just a weird feeling. I dunno. ND for a gut feeling.

For some reason this car makes me think of a line from Cup of gold by John Steinbeck. “

Instant ND for the “Let;’s go Brandon” sticker. Immediate red flag that the seller is a moron and thus the mechanicals on whatever toy this thing is will be suspect.

The moon is a giant ball of cocaine? Wallace and Gromit told me it was made of cheese!

If you carry golf balls and the head of a golf club, threaded ahead of time to fit on the end of a small shovel, and bring them 240,000 miles from the Earth to the Moon then your swings are not “impromptu.”

NP, ND or third option RD? Roll Dice?