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Wed Dec 2
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    Image of VeeArrrSix VeeArrrSix
    01:02 PM

    In reply to Crazy Like a Fox for $3,300!
    My older brother's first car was a Fox 3 door wagon. I used to ride in the back seat to school as the Jr. High was a block from the High School and my brother actually offered to drive me. The Fox was so gutless and crappy he sold it after 3 months and bought the most bitchin' 71 Ford Bronco with a 351 Windsor in it.

    Consequently it was much cooler to grab roll cage and hop over the side of the Bronco than it was to unfold my 6 foot frame out of the backseat of that penalty box of a VW.
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11:35 AM

    In reply to Crazy Like a Fox for $3,300!
    That must be one of the most optimistic speedometers of the time.

    I think top speed on the speedo should be, at most, 10 MPH more than the vehicle can attain. If it's governed at 118 MPH, put a 120 MPH speedo in it. Okay, 125, but 160 MPH? Puhleeze.
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    Image of Turboner Turboner
    11:32 AM

    In reply to Crazy Like a Fox for $3,300!
    I did a clutch job on one of those for a friend. So many other parts were broken/inoperable, I had issues giving it back to him, but didn't want to bite off more than I could chew. Easy clutch job, though. That's when I fell in love with the idea of BOLTING the axle to a stubshaft on the tranny instead of using spring clips that like to stay sprung when trying to pry an axle out. A triple-square bit, and you're done! No more bending prybars, and you don't have to fuck with the suspension at all to do a clutch.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10:32 AM

    In reply to Crazy Like a Fox for $3,300!
    Just look at that backseat leg room--no wait, you can't. Because there isn't any.

    This is really VW's Chevette--sure, it has some fans, but it's a cheap, tiny, cheap, flimsy, crappy, tin can.
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    Image of David Hume David Hume
    09:46 AM

    In reply to Crazy Like a Fox for $3,300!
    A few years back, I drove past a driveway featuring a pristine Fox for sale with 95k on it, for $450. The two women selling it claimed the tranny was shot - my test drive revealed a bad wheel bearing. I kept mum, bought the car, fixed the WB and sold it to my neighbor's kid a month later for $1200.

    On my way out to drop the car off at the neighbor's house, I peeped the horn at this crow hopping around by the side of the road. His 125 cousins on the high tension line overhead absolutely pasted the car - it even came in through the side window, got on me, the seat, everything. I'm usually not one for karma and that sort of hooey, but, boy...
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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
    09:16 AM

    In reply to Crazy Like a Fox for $3,300!
    Pipe. Miserable, overpriced crapcan.
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    Image of Miscellanea Miscellanea
    09:08 AM

    In reply to Crazy Like a Fox for $3,300!
    Even my wife's '02 Jetta isn't worth that much. Crack Pipe. That's worth $600-700 tops. And only because of the condition it's in. The mileage certainly doesn't help.
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    08:44 AM

    In reply to Crazy Like a Fox for $3,300!
    Man! Someone took really good care of that car.

    Why?
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    08:41 AM

    In reply to Crazy Like a Fox for $3,300!
    $3300 for a rust belt bottom feeder VW? Well, Chicago is a major crack hub. I don't actually know that, I just made it up. Sounds plausible though. Sounds like this guy has been into something. Maybe for someone but I'd say no to drugs this time.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    08:24 AM

    In reply to Crazy Like a Fox for $3,300!
    It's a decent looking car, and it appears to be in really nice condition. It's just not desirable enough to really be very valuable.

    For a Fox fan, this might be the find of the century, but for the rest of us, it's a $3300 pile of "meh".

    $3300 isn't a whole lot of money, but it can buy an E30 in similar condition.

    I've got to vote crack pipe on this. It would be a really nice buy for around $2k, or maybe $2500.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    08:07 AM

    In reply to Crazy Like a Fox for $3,300!
    This Fox is a dog. It's a pig in a poke. The cat's meow, it ain't. You'd have to be a horse's ass to lay clams on this turkey. What with tinworm here and unknown gremlins elsewhere, it's certain to be a monkey on your back for a coon's age.

    The seller must be a snake in the grass.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10:27 AM

    @Elhigh: Yeah, you'd have to be a bird brain to be interested in this white elephant.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    08:03 AM

    In reply to Crazy Like a Fox for $3,300!
    Crack pipe. Essentially a bottom-feeder econobox of no interest and modest merits. Sales had fallen to a trickle by 1993 - word had gotten around about these cars. It's not even the slightly more appealing two-door wagon variation. Too many other interesting and/or serviceable older cars at that price level.
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    12/01/09

    In reply to Puma Lets You Brazilian Wax for $8,500!
    This should make me lots of friends in NYs sizable Brazilian community. $8,500 is to be offset by all the free cachaça I'll be sure to receive.
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    12/01/09

    In reply to Puma Lets You Brazilian Wax for $8,500!
    You know who'd drive this? PUMAMAN!!!
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    12/01/09

    In reply to Puma Lets You Brazilian Wax for $8,500!
    Cool car, and I said nice price, but I still think your garden-variety Karmann Ghia has a better, more sculptural body.
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