No no no no no no no. Down here in the Sixth Borough of New York, also known as Palm Beach County, Sinatra and Sansabelt slacks slide in easy like bagels ’n’ lox.

I am with you on the Dodge 600 ES. I definitely could be talked into buying one of those.

I got all the leaks stopped on my E24 one time. It was a wonderful 48 hours.

This, to me, is the high-water mark of BMW style and when they were new and I was 15 it was the car I doodled in the margins of my notebooks and wished my dad would buy. But this one — that list of “little things” seems awfully long, and the means that they’re not really little things or that they’re too expensive to…

“This is in great shape” plus “I have too many projects” = “This is hiding some horrible demon that I can’t cheaply fix and/or a million little gremlins that I don’t feel like fixing. Brush up on your German, because you will definitely need to make friends with an overseas BMW enthusiast group who can help you source…

ND I wanted this car so bad in the ‘80's but it seems like an unfinished project “small leak” not buying someone else’s headache

In that condition and at that price, I’m not surprised the ad is down already. As long as it shows no signs of the supercharger and/or the transmission being ready to go (and I’d look at those as negotiation points rather than show stoppers), this is the easiest NP in a long while.

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.

You badly misunderestimate* the sheer magnitude of unreliability here. Contagious reliability, even:

It’s difficult to say which of the following would be the more reckless decision:

I want to say it’s possible to get this back on the road,but if that rocker on the passenger side is any indication of what lies beneath...ND.

I suspect this would be bought by some limousine-for-hire company that has other “exotic” cars and the wherewithal to get it running. If so, it could pay for itself in say a year weddings.

If nothing else, you could book this for weddings every weekend until the wheels fall off. NP.

There doesn’t seem to be any really esoteric or difficult work needed to bring this back to full life, the metal looks good and the cow peelings even look fine. Swap out the rubber pieces and freshen her up, tell Jeeves to get off his ass and show up in style. NP.

I voted NP because it’s not a bad price for a running, driving, quirky car, but the W8 really isn’t adding anything that a fully loaded GLX V6 of this vintage doesn’t have apart from more complication. IIRC this generation of Passat was almost identical to the B5 Audi A4, so that’s enough complication for its own…

Absolutely a lovely engine. When, and if, it runs.

Going against the current and saying NP. Whether you like it or not $12k is a cheap entry into a classic car, even if it's Japanese, where else are you going to find one in this shape cheaper?

Wow, these cars look SO Japanese, they’re kind of awesome. $12K seems like a lot, but I bet some fan out there will pay it.

Wow, memory time machine. 

Was the guy swinging a heavy chain around in there?