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1972 Datsun 1200 For A Humming $8,000!
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something_unique_and_descriptive
07/22/09

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If it was a 13b-REW and in perfect running order, maybe... but it's not, so pass the crack.
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Jim-Bob
07/22/09

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If someone buys this for $8,000, I have a 1979 AMC Spirit with a 360 V8 swap that has been sitting for 3 years without running that I will let go for only half that- so it's a bargain!

Seriously though, $8,000 for a Frankenstein'd Datsun that has not run in 3 years? Why hasn't it run? I say run. Run for your life because it's not alive, it's undead.
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Six Flags Over Tomsk
07/22/09

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Eighty Benjamins for a mangy-looking malaise econobox with a suspect engine that hasn't been stated in three years...

Yep, crack pipe with Drano chasers.
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Tanshanomi
07/22/09

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Wait a minute. Who does a wankel swap and then neglects to even mention it in the ad? Is this guy stoned?

Oh wait. I just went to Ebay and read the ad. Nevermind, I just answered my own question.
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goatrope
07/22/09

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The truth is we were just screwing with you about the yesterday's Vega.

Is this week's theme 'Small Shitpiles from the 70's"? It's crackpipe time. This beater is less than the sum of it's abused parts, even if it once ran 11.5 in the 1/8th mile.
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mytdawg
07/22/09

@goatrope: No but I think the theme of the day is "Overboosted Asian shitboxes".
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Novaload
07/22/09

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Oh, so the "engine have not started" in 3 years. No prob. Sure. Um, yeah.
CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK!
Run for you life!
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that ain't the way to have fun, son
07/22/09

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My mother had a '71 510 wagon, and they were nearly-indestructible.

However...rust is patient. Knock a -0- off that price, and it'd be nice.
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CptSevere
07/22/09

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Eight grand for this crock? You gotta be kidding me. The only way this rustball ever went that fast is if it were dropped from a helicopter. For that money, I could build two V8 Vegas, and piss everybody off. Crack HOUSE.
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Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
07/22/09

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This is crackpipe job if I've ever seen one. This car should be on craigslist, and an asking price of 2500, and he'll get maybe 1500 for it.

$8,000 is a lot of money for someone else's eyesore project car.
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engineerd
07/22/09

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Crack Pipe. Unless you can convince the government this car qualifies for the Cash-For-Clunkers cash. That brings the out of pocket expense down to $3500, which is a little more palatable for a Wankelized Datsun.
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smalleyxb122
07/22/09

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Enough grooves in your slicks for a DOT approval doesn't make them "street tires".

I'd like to see a copy of the time slip. That car would get booted from most strips for breaking 12 seconds without any semblance of a cage.

Though I just reread the ad, and it doesn't say that it was in the 1/4 mile. That is just an assumption on our part.

The lack of CAPS LOCK earns the seller a few points, but they all get used up by his grammar and punctuation, so I'm left assessing the value of the car on the car's merits. I think that $2k might be a bit optimistic. $8k?

Crack pipe.
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MushyHeirloom
07/22/09

@smalleyxb122: I'd bet that was its time in the 660 (1/8th), if I was a betting man.

Or, perhaps, he may have just cut out the cage, but it certainly doesn't look like it...
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ThreeLitre
07/22/09

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Yes because that's what I want to do with my hard earned money. Sell my perfectly good 10 year old car that is quite rock solid and then raise an additional $3k to buy a 37 year old rust bucket with an engine that will give me an addiction to high viscosity oil quicker than a transformer-loving Chinese pre-teen develops an irrational love for high-octane dinosaur juice, and then the moment that I actually try to do a quick quarter the entire engine - wait, no, TWO engines - implodes and explodes simultaneously in a hideously violent catastrophe...and I am at square one with no car, and $8k poorer. But then at least my oil addiction will be quelled.

Sorry, it's still early. Where is my coffee and flask...
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kerc (wants a Mustang!)
07/22/09

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I'm gonna swing at it with my Crack Pipe of Incoherence +3.

* rolls 1d20 *
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MushyHeirloom
07/22/09

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I would have considered it... until I saw that this thing had been sitting since halfway through Bush's second term.

Pass the glass.
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maximum-sienna
07/22/09

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History Lesson: Frankenstein was the scientist. The monster was simply known as Frankenstein's monster.

Oh, and crack pipe.
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