The car appears to be in very good shape for an Alfa with this many miles.

I also wonder what the fuck is their deal.

This is the dumbest thing I have read this week...and if you have been reading the news regarding Republicans in Congress, that’s a high bar to cross.

If you attempt to pull a firearm on the cops as they are detaining you, you absolutely deserve to be shot. Maybe you die, maybe you don’t; some would say that it up to God...and most of these SC types are very big on God, or at least their version of God.  So I guess God decided he had it coming. 

I agree with everything you say.  I also know this particular car has been for sale for quite a while, which makes me think either the market has spoken (and it really hasn’t, a few examples have traded in this price range) or this particular car has something up with it.  I’m going with ND based on that. 

Hate the game, not the playa? 

The question, as it always is with Alfas, is if the nicer looking one is as sorted. This means nothing if you are budgeting to sort. Me, I’d take the rougher looking sorted one... it would be instant gratification now and until winter comes, at which time I could address the seats.

I was on the same wavelength with a Camaro, it’s not a muscle car, and certainly can be optioned as a world-class sports car. And he mentioned he is open to a ragtop. So for a little stretch of the budget here’s a damn near new 223 ZL1 ragtop manual in a fairly loud color for $76k:

1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor ambulance. You know this model as the Ghostbusters wagon. Here’s a shot of the best angle of one of these:

If anyone is going to fuck up my car with an amateur stereo install, it is going to be me.  ND. 

I agree 100%.

I guess Putin no longer has this fucking thorn in his side. 

Until I see a confirmed video with a missile hitting the plane, I am going with a bomb...because it would be much easier to blame Ukraine for a bomb. “A Ukrainian secret agent got a bomb onto the plane” sounds a lot better on state TV than “Ukrainians are running around 100 miles north of Moscow with anti-aircraft…

Update: all were rescued.

Yeah, this is a deal where you want the seller to direct you to the well-respected, long established shop that did the install, and all the people there are on a first-name basis with the seller, and he’s owned Porsches forever and had them all serviced there, and oh yeah the seller is like 70 years old.

Interior bits in exterior color works with some colors (Miami Blue, for example), but I agree that red is just too damn much.

And it’s not just your particular local experience; hail reports are off the fucking charts this year.

It’s been sitting and needs a brake overhaul? Folks, that’s not just pads, rotors, and fluid. 

Well, consider how many people are morons. 

I would not be surprised at all to see 4Runner turn into a Jeep/Bronco competitor, complete with removable top.