https://www.autolist.com/oldsmobile-...AE6952BW161019
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https://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/ct...438642439.html
Orphan car with engine timing check engine light codes
https://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/ct...444584612.html
MA repairable title due to ‘’light fresh water’’ doesn’t sound too problematic
Ha! I only read the op, immediately thought the same, and started googling...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
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https://classiccars.com/listings/vie...w-jersey-07729
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Originally Posted by Touring_Sedan
the Q3 is good, but the much rarer Q2 French-Italian love child is the real disaster. Are Citroens too old to consider? A Citroen Sm? Hydro suspension, headlights that turn with the wheels, all the benefits of French engineering when lunch involved 2 bottles of wine per person and a stray Gaullois ash could ruin the drawing but no one would give a fuck?
https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds...m/2492992.html
andthe perfect shady dealer too
Look, I'll grant the wisdom of sending our boy Austin down the path to enlightenment through self-denial and a level of forced humility that can only be achieved by owning a French car. But a Citroen? That's the kind of half measure that brings perfectly viable acolytes to ruin.
Montucky is clearly interested in being stranded in the middle of nowhere by something cheap and weird that he can break his knuckles on while hiding from his family. Spending a little hard-earned money on tools and parts and earning the respect of his selected peers for what some may see as foolhardy or outright quixotic. He wants to lay in a pool of oil and coolant, with an aptly-named trouble light at his side while he curses long-dead engineers whose numerous mistakes were committed a third of a world away.
For this experience there is but one place to go. Where the cars are so unwanted that the ads predate the recent surge in used car prices. Where the idea of taking money for the car at all carries a certain guilt. And the larger guilt of initiating a new member into the club (even informally) precludes any guile and sets Montucky up for honest, if totally horrific, transactions. I speak, of course, of the Renault Club of North America:
https://forum.renaultclub.us/forum/m...or-sale-wanted
Apologies in advance. Godspeed.
I think I'm going to have a really nice supercharged Range Rover for sale in a week or so. I know Austin would love it...
Includes custom battery mountQuote:
Originally Posted by simple
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Elegant.Quote:
Originally Posted by jono
I kinda want a Renault now.
Older (or Newer) Mercedes Sprinter Van
Bonus if the dealer will let him live in it while it sits in the lot for a few months while waiting on parts. #vanlife.
We need to locate a cheap Renault turbo rally car. This, but cheap:
https://www.sanfranciscosportscars.c...turbo-2-c-492/
Nail meets head. Dammit, you have me pegged. I'm intrigued by that 1982 Le Car. Hahaha. I am such a car masochist.Quote:
Originally Posted by jono
Had a Sprinter already for work duty. Great freaking vehicle. Definitely doesn't qualify for least reliable in my experience with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Name Redacted
I have one for work too. It is a POS and can't even get it into the dealer for service 6 months out. Only the dealer can clear the codes. Not sure how people live in those things.Quote:
Originally Posted by MontuckyFried
They're popular as hotel shuttles, so it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say I've ridden in hundreds of sprinters, and every one of them was a rattly tin can.Quote:
Originally Posted by Name Redacted
Parfait.Quote:
Originally Posted by jono
That forum is pretty dead. Apropos of the subject matter.
A salvage title Maserati that's been through flooding.
https://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/ct...444584612.html
The 4-door? That might help. The back seat of a 2-door Le Car is slightly easier to escape from than Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Probably lucky it sold.Quote:
Originally Posted by MontuckyFried
The jerks on the Renault club forum are probably figuring out ways to house cross country travelers who pick up aspiring parts cars in distant states. Anything to sustain their tribe's existence. Watch yourself.
The unholy union of Renault and AMC:
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Just watched a Grand Tour episode with one of those. Good episode. I’d pick that car for him too.Quote:
Originally Posted by dunfree
A friend of mine had one of those, '82 or '83, that thing was a blast to rally around Boston on 2 wheels in.Quote:
Originally Posted by MontuckyFried
Is it just me or does that flying Le Car look like it's en route to a harder nose-first landing before they cut to one softly continuing on its merry way? There's a metaphor in there somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
the a8 is a good idea but it’s worth spending a little more for one with an engine:
https://newyork.craigslist.org/fct/f...444182986.html
https://classiccarsbay.com/for-sale-...michigan-31227
or you could get one that's as good as it's gonna get
https://classiccarsbay.com/for-sale-...w-jersey-55718
DefinitelyQuote:
Originally Posted by jono
I'm thinking they needed at least two for that commercial. Just like real life ownership.
Ya, my neighbors when I was a kid had a bunch of them before they upgraded to Saabs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
Amateur hour in here.
The Lada?
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Any will do, but this one is ready for your suffering.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/17418950096...MAAOSw-89eRFt9
le car was a strong suggestion.
Somewhere I read a description of Ladas as being constructed of compressed rust.
"1975 Bricklin SV-1, 351 Cleveland Engine"Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
Not unless someone swapped one in.
A Bricklin would be perfect. Imagine Montucky walking (not driving) into a rural Montana Napa store to ask for parts...
They have that in common with the Chevy Vega. which is relevant to this thread because the Vega was in a way similar to the Le Car in that it sucked and people would own more than one.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
There's a definite trend here. Being in TX, he should have plenty of room for a parts car, so this really should be a twofer.
Holy shit I was gonna say a Bricklin but I didn’t think any mag would know what I was talking about.
I don’t think it can be topped. Lada parts have to be 100x more available then a Bricklins.
It's the pre-Subaru pre-pre-Yugo. That makes it perfect for this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennymac
I knew a guy who had one - and I've even driven it.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennymac
The AMC and Ford powered versions were really two different cars, with the former obviously being worse and parts more scarce. The Ford small block 351 (aka Windsor) parts are still available everywhere. Since it's now in the enthusiasts category, suspension parts are easier to find than one might imagine (although obviously internet only)
Still, the whole car is a massive pile of shit.