Shut down the comments boys; cup holder reference is here.

How many transmissions, cylinder heads, radiators and expansion tanks has it had? I bet it’s had about a gazillion cup holders.

Every day we stray further from God in pursuit of worldly numbers...

This is one of those purchases that seems like a great idea shortly after winning the Powerball jackpot. But then, 5 years later when you’re penniless and turning tricks in a back alley to feed your crippling drug addiction, you look back and think “Maybe that wasn’t the best idea.” 

My take is that it was bought by someone in their 20s with the expectation that it would be a cool car to cruise around in—which turned out to be the case.

I could go either way on this, but the lack of information and the I-can’t-be-bothered-to-clean-it attitude of the seller makes me vote with an upraised single-digit.

Also having rescued a few of these types of cars, I know when to walk away. This is practically worthless for the effort you need to put into it. Parting out also assumes a healthy following...there are folks out there but the alfa spiders (esp series 3) aren’t exactly a super hot market. 

Yeah, I’d rather pay another $500 and have one that’s running, or at least close to it.  If someone’s been using this as a table for 20 years, there’s no telling what’s wrong with it.

So is this sort of like a sanitation engineer fantasy camp? Wherein I pay $500 to somebody so i can sweat, catch tetanus and drag a literal pile of garbage to a junkyard?

The closest thing to a car club that I’ve ever been a part of, is the gang I run with at Stateline Rallycross. They’re a fabulous bunch of maniacs who show up to and put on rallycross events.  Everybody there is friendly and willing to help when needed. I’ve been hammering my $140 RallyMetro for two years now, and you…

Old farts with rods up their ass that think every nut and bolt has to be in place and judge you when you roll up and you aren’t wearing your newsies cap and your window crank falls off when you open the door

Ha! +1 for “wearing your newsies cap”.

Something something British car...unreliable...marks it’s territory blah blah blah. These are definitely very hard to find and most are the pathetic 4-pot models. The V8s are the one to have and despite how clean this one is with the mods done to it, it’s not worth anywhere close to the asking price. Closer to 8K…

Don’t kid yourself, if there was a asteroid headed to earth by 2040 there would be entire industries devoted to downplaying the probability and urging you to continue life as normal and keep shopping. Politicians would say the science isn’t settled and that there is no need to disrupt business based on a probability.

Obviously 

I think these would have a “Stronger” cult following if 1) More people knew about them and 2) You could actually keep that triple rotor Wankel engine running. (parts etc)

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ECS does indeed offer will-call pickup now.

Maybe he’s not the hero we need, but he’s the one we deserve.