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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    10:54 AM

    In reply to Chevy Feretta V8-Powered Prototype For Sale, Only $37,500!
    Which end drives? The fore and aft layout says RWD, but I don't see a driveline hump in that one shot of the back seat.

    If we can establish the provenance beyond the breathless seller's assertions, it could be worth a fair chunk of change. I dunno that I'd go all the way to $37K, but deep into the 20s, yeah.
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    Edited by Elhigh at 11/30/09 10:56 AM Elhigh was starred Elhigh was unstarred
    Image of oddfish oddfish
    11:00 AM

    @Elhigh: It's hard to see from the craigslist pictures, but if you look closely you can see the engine is transverse mounted. The Hot Rod article referenced here earlier shows a clearer shot.

    That thing must torque steer something fierce.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11:11 AM

    @oddfish: Tranvsverse, really? I didn't see that.

    Jeez, don't mash the pedal in the rain.
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    10:20 AM

    In reply to Chevy Feretta V8-Powered Prototype For Sale, Only $37,500!
    [www.berettastuff.com]

    This has a little more on the background of the car, but not much. It apparently has a ~3.5L SOHC V8, which theoretically rules out Northstar prototype.
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    10:09 AM

    In reply to Chevy Feretta V8-Powered Prototype For Sale, Only $37,500!
    Uh, besides the all caps thing I'm pretty sure they are incorrect about the 1 of a kind GM concept thing...
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    10:16 AM

    @mytdawg: Okay, the Ferreta is noth the prettiest of the one-of-a-kind GM concepts, but is one-of-a-kind and it is awesome.
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    10:17 AM

    @pauljones: I just meant that nobody else has one. Never mind the guy paid $1.6 Mil or whatever it was. Someone else does own one.
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    Image of MaxSmart32 MaxSmart32
    10:42 AM

    @mytdawg: Actually, there were at least two F-88's made...try again.
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    11:23 AM

    @MaxSmart32: I stand corrected. But it's one of a kind now...
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    10:08 AM

    In reply to Chevy Feretta V8-Powered Prototype For Sale, Only $37,500!
    This car makes me sad. Not because I don't like it, but because all of this automotive craziness is destined to sit unused for another 23 years, and then some.

    I have to think that you could forgo the factory pedigree, and build a reasonable facsimile for a lot less, and actually be able to title and drive it. What fun is all this hotness if you can't drive it?

    It's not how I would choose to spend $37,500, but I have to admit that I think it's cool as hell.
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    09:59 AM

    In reply to Chevy Feretta V8-Powered Prototype For Sale, Only $37,500!
    This makes one wonder how it all went so wrong between Feretta to Beretta. One, a rear drive eight cylindered beast. The other, a Cavalier with painted bumpers.
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    09:54 AM

    In reply to Chevy Feretta V8-Powered Prototype For Sale, Only $37,500!
    I think that having a one-of-a-kind concept car would be a blast.
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    10:31 AM

    @skaycog was here: If you look, that video is the last thumbnail in our gallery.
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    10:48 AM

    @Ben Wojdyla: Oh. I only viewed half of the gallery. I usually do better than that. *sheepish grin*
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    09:52 AM

    In reply to Chevy Feretta V8-Powered Prototype For Sale, Only $37,500!
    Could they not have coined a better name than Ferretta?

    I mean, really?

    I still want it quite badly though, but wouldn't want to pay this 9rick any money whatsoever, lest he spends it on more meth and crack.
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    10:33 AM

    @Rust-MyEnemy: At first I thought maybe they were planning on Beretta guns winning the lawsuit and making them change the name. After a little digging, apparently it was a take on F-body replacement.
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    10:37 AM

    @P161911 probably shoudn't have: I thought it likely to be something like that, and even vague wordplay on "Ferrari-Eater" crossed my mind.

    Still pretty lame. If it had been built on a Corsica I guess it would have been called Forsica.
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    Edited by Rust-MyEnemy at 11/30/09 10:38 AM Rust-MyEnemy was starred Rust-MyEnemy was unstarred
    Image of 1300ccsoffury 1300ccsoffury
    09:51 AM

    In reply to Chevy Feretta V8-Powered Prototype For Sale, Only $37,500!
    Ultimate sleeper. Nice price.

    32-valve V8? Is that the ZR1 motor?
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    10:34 AM

    @1300ccsoffury: this one is apparently a 3.5L, not 5.7L though.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    09:42 AM

    In reply to Chevy Feretta V8-Powered Prototype For Sale, Only $37,500!
    OMG NICE PRICE!!1!!!1!

    With that bit of utterly obligatory internet exclamation out of the way, I must say that I love it. Purchasing and driving a car like this requires a hell of a sense of humor; the same kind of humor required to buy a 1968 Impala six-cylinder station wagon with the SS package.

    I have that necessary sense of humor, and I would love nothing more than the opportunity to surprise the ever living hell out of a couple of the Mustangs and M3s I see on the way to work at 5 am.

    Think for a moment, of how hilariously awesome this thing well and truly is. Everyday, provided that I leave on time, I get brutally cut off on the freeway on ramp by some jackass in an E34 M3 who thinks he's the shit. And when compared the Saturn that he just blew away, who's to say he isn't?

    I would love to show up one day in this totally POS-looking Chevrolet Beretta and block his ass all the way up the on ramp, then proceed to leave his cocky ass in the dust all the way to work with my heavily massaged LT1 V8 shoved into a car that that weighs maybe 3000 lbs. I would derive unfathomable levels of glee from doing that every morning and imagining the dumbstruck look on his face.

    Nice Price. And no, I'm not bitter at all.
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    Image of Ralph Wiley Is Poised Ralph Wiley Is Poised
    09:47 AM

    @pauljones: If it had a poll, it would have to be Crack Pipe. AFAIK, it can't be titled. So you'd have a Beretta lawn ornament, just like Clem in the trailer park.
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    09:49 AM

    @pauljones: If I was stateside, I'd be all over getting a Corsica LTZ and shoving an Aurora V8 up it.

    And yes, it would still be FWD

    And no, it wouldn't go round corners. Not even slightly.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    09:49 AM

    @Ralph Wiley Is Poised: Where there's a will, there's a way.

    This much I have learned in my 20-something years on this earth. If I had the car, I guarantee I could find a way to get it registered.
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    09:52 AM

    @Rust-MyEnemy: If you do it right and put the Aurora V8 in place of the backseat, you would not only solve the drive wheel issues, you might just be able to get it to go around a corner, too.
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    09:55 AM

    @pauljones: As well as the Aurora V8 in the front? AWD, AWS? I'm down with that
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    09:58 AM

    @Rust-MyEnemy: If there were more people like us, the world would be a much, much better place.

    We would all be too concerned about what kind of insane automotive project we wanted to tackle next to bother with this whole "killing each other" thing going on right now.
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    Image of Ralph Wiley Is Poised Ralph Wiley Is Poised
    10:03 AM

    @pauljones: Wouldn't be difficult to find a blue Beretta to supply a clean VIN.
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    Image of bugattatra bugattatra
    10:15 AM

    @pauljones:

    That scenario is immensely satisfying.

    For a month now, nearly every day I've been out cornering a riced out DC2 Integra around an off-ramp on the way to work in my stock 2000 Legacy Outback wagon - the kid tries so hard but doesn't seem to understand how to drive around understeer...
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    10:15 AM

    @pauljones: Besides the fact that the person doing the advertising is obviously a moron, I too think the car would be very cool.

    And I've gotten a lot of satisfaction blowing past people in the Red Line. 250 horsepower in an Ion is more fun than most people would think, mostly for the reasons you've stated.
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    mytdawg was starred mytdawg was unstarred
    Image of Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp
    09:37 AM

    In reply to Chevy Feretta V8-Powered Prototype For Sale, Only $37,500!
    Ooh, SPECIAL G TRACK 5 SPEED.

    Why do I suspect it's a Getrag and that this seller is 'tarded?

    Let's look at some more evidence:

    ...and not to be pedantic, but a custom handbuilt car would not have "options," per se.

    My favorite bit: "...AND WHO NOW'S WHAT ELSE GM DID TO THIS CAR /////////" Way to have any idea what you're selling. I fucking hate Craigslist.
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    Image of Cheeseslap Cheeseslap
    09:40 AM

    @Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp: Meow! But in your defense, the seller does sound like a moron.
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    Image of Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp
    09:44 AM

    @Cheeseslap: Reading that semiliterate diatribe literally made my head hurt from all the stupid.
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    Image of Cheeseslap Cheeseslap
    09:53 AM

    @Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp: But what if he threw in a Sham-Wow?
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    Image of LuciferV8 LuciferV8
    11/25/09

    In reply to E'go Revolt: Russian 3000GT Officially Sketched
    It's an ok design, but really I'd like to see a whole new car. It depresses me that there are no good new designs coming out of the Russian auto industry. If ever there was a nation with the intellectual capital to build great cars, it's Russia. I guess it'll take a while before they fully work the communism out of their system and start making nice rides.
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    Image of MaWeiTao MaWeiTao
    11/24/09

    In reply to E'go Revolt: Russian 3000GT Officially Sketched
    It looks like a cross between an LFA and a GT-R. Not bad, but very derivative.
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    Image of Turboner Turboner
    11/23/09

    In reply to E'go Revolt: Russian 3000GT Officially Sketched
    It's going to need wider front tires to prevent lots of understeer if it is based on the 3000GT, I think. What is with everyone wanting the "staggard" look, at the sacrifice of proper handling, on AWD cars? Yes, I used the Craigslist spelling (one of many, actually) of "staggered."
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    11/23/09

    In reply to E'go Revolt: Russian 3000GT Officially Sketched
    Does this mean a new supply of those hard to find Getrag trannies for 3000GT VR4 owners?
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    Image of B3ND3R B3ND3R
    11/23/09

    In reply to E'go Revolt: Russian 3000GT Officially Sketched

    Ze Russians huv already played zis game before, with ze BMW M6/Volga.
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    11/23/09


    @B3ND3R:
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    11/23/09


     
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    YankBoffin promoted this comment B3ND3R was starred B3ND3R was unstarred
    Image of Feny Feny
    11/23/09

    @B3ND3R: That right there was based on the 8-series. The convertible was based on the 6-series.
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    11/23/09

    @Feny: D'oh! Thanks for the catch - you are correct, sir.
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