I love me an old ponton. But not really this one...Kind of a neat idea I guess, but unless its a rally 450SLC or the Red Pig, it just seems like an extra from an old Herbie movie. I’d rather just cruise comfortably in a regular ol’ ponton with all of its class and elegance and not try to be an athlete.

You joke about using this as a mail vehicle, but when I owned my Delica, this was a pretty common scenario on our forums. From what I understand, a lot of rural carriers are required to supply their own vehicle and the RHD obviously makes it easier to pull up to boxes.

Lots of miles left in this one -- absolutely NP. It looks to be in very good shape, to boot. 

So without the swap, this is probably what, a 3-4k car in this condition? And its only that high because of the e30 cult following. So the seller thinks this swap is worth 24k? Yeah no...put the fucking trim on to start, include the nice wheels at that price, and replace the trashed interior. This is a 10k car. 

The Kia Carnival seems pretty dope too. Get those recliners in back

Looks good enough to me, a nice little red roadster as a driver. The roll bar isn’t the prettiest, but I could live with that. The twin cam would be neat, but assume that the v6 is far more reliable and grunty for actual driving.

They are plastic and are known to warp and/or crack with heat. Due to the idle hours of police vehicles, you don’t get the airflow needed to cool the engine bay -- leading to increased premature failure. This leads to oil leaking out and just general low oil issues. I didn’t realize these were full on engine failure,…

I imagine this is a bigger car, but I get Pontiac Solstice vibes from the overall jellybean shape and especially the rear quarters.

I don’t know much about bikes (i.e. whether this is a good deal) but I do love cafe style bikes. Seems like a lot of manufacturers did cafe throwback retro style bikes, but most still look really bulky. This is a really nice execution of a cafe bike with modern features -- I really dig it. 

Good lord that’s bad. I don’t know what the cost of a decent fox body interior goes for these days (are they still super easy to find? Used to be guys ripping fox bodies apart left and right to use the chassis). Knock a few grand off to start, then whatever the cost would be to reverse the interior. I think at 6k,…

For nearly 30k I’d want a concours level car. This is not close to that. The seat wear, the double DIN unit (rad 80s stereos are part of the charm!) and there is plastic damage all over the passenger side (UV degradation?). 

If the seller was smart, he’d advertise that they are Lotus Esprit taillights, give that bad boy some provenance! (Lotus bought them from Toyota)

I’ve seen these for about half that, in better condition. 

It ungainly and ridiculous, but clean GMT800s are getting harder and harder to find. They also go forever -- I’d go wth NP. 

ND, not even the fuzzy ones. I can’t think of a car that I would want to drop 8k on less than this. 

Shouldn’t you disconnect the driveshaft for towing (which would not incur mileage as its not spinning the transmission where the odo/speedo is geared from)? I only know in automatics you do, so you don’t spin the transmission without the front pump on. I guess in manual cars you can just throw it in neutral (or the Tx…

So, we can save 67 lives a year but are in a net increase of 304.7 deaths per year (if a linear distribution). I mean 67 lives are great, but at that rate its still net increasing by 237 year after year. Thats uh...not good. I’m sure there are a bunch of things at play here, but anticipating the pushback on a rule…

4 grans is F-it money these days. Your comparison point would be the Buick from last week -- also a screaming NP. The Buick will cost less and be a more reliable, cheaper to maintain but this car will be a hell of a lot more fun, and its got some life left. 

Regular US spec 2002s are going 10-15k or so higher than this in good condition, so this might not be so far off. I could see a classic BMW fanatic snatching this up. I don’t know who these people actually are though.

Very easy NP. Reliable, luxurious and smooth. I’d rock the shit out of this for a lot of highway driving. It’s got another 100k or more easily in it, if the interior can hold up.