Spectre
The Deported
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- Dallas, Texas
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- 00 4Runner | 02 919 | 87 XJ6 | 86 CB700SC
One of the nice things about being a gearhead in Dallas is that there are an enormous number of used car dealers - and many have interesting things on their lots. It's not uncommon for us to pull over and go look at something unusual in a lot. Most dealers don't put in pedestrian fencing on their lots and leave them lit from dusk to dawn just so people can look over cars on their lots after hours.
Tonight, Der Stig and I were checking out one cluster of third-tier dealers that specialize in interesting older cars and spotted rickhamilton's future Camaro sitting in the used lot of a local Chevrolet dealer. We decided to stop and take a closer look. (All pictures clickable for larger resolution versions.)
Yes, it's BEIGE. Turned out to be a 84-86 base V6 Camaro that had the $49 F41 sport suspension option. It was owned by someone who took shockingly good care of it for an F-Body - only one cigarette burn on the driver's seat and only one small splotch of tape covering a gap in the dash. All joking about these mulletmobiles aside, the interiors on these disintegrated ridiculously fast so seeing one that's this intact is rare. It even seems to have all the original interior components, like the cargo cover and T-top covers that always seems to go missing about 20 minutes after the car was sold - you *never* see those, yet this car had them.
Both Der Stig and I play the "Guess The Driver/Owner" game when we see cars like this; we both agreed that it was most likely that the car had belonged to a woman, probably a secretary, who'd kept it most of its life.
Since we'd already wandered onto the property, we decided to check out other things on the smallish lot. There were three Pontiac G8s including two G8 GTs, both with laughable prices.
There were some more interesting things on the lot, too. There was the only factory version of the Pontiac Solstice even vaguely worth considering, the GXP:
One of the better things on the yard, this Mustang GT/CS:
This somewhat rare Accord Wagon was thoroughly trashed, but we figured someone had just traded this in and it would likely go straight to auction.
Off in a corner was this 2007 Pontiac GTO; black on black with the manual transmission.
No price marked, 45K on the clock, looked like it'd been sitting there a while - and they'd left it unlocked.
The interior was mostly in excellent shape except for the typical leather splitting at the top of the back seatrest. This car made me mad at GM dealers all over again - this was essentially the car I tried to buy back in the 2000s that I couldn't get Pontiac dealers to sell to me. Both Der Stig and I will be enquiring about this car in the morning.
It seems that someone just bought this:
And had been dissatisfied with their purchase:
There also was this monument to just how completely Mercedes Benz failed to comprehend the mainstream market segments in the North American market:
We decided that these two were probably the best values on the lot - this 2007 G35:
And this 2011 Mercedes E350 with 75K on the clock, loaded with pretty much every option, and selling for $21K with a warranty. You could have done a lot worse on that lot for $21K.
Tonight, Der Stig and I were checking out one cluster of third-tier dealers that specialize in interesting older cars and spotted rickhamilton's future Camaro sitting in the used lot of a local Chevrolet dealer. We decided to stop and take a closer look. (All pictures clickable for larger resolution versions.)
Yes, it's BEIGE. Turned out to be a 84-86 base V6 Camaro that had the $49 F41 sport suspension option. It was owned by someone who took shockingly good care of it for an F-Body - only one cigarette burn on the driver's seat and only one small splotch of tape covering a gap in the dash. All joking about these mulletmobiles aside, the interiors on these disintegrated ridiculously fast so seeing one that's this intact is rare. It even seems to have all the original interior components, like the cargo cover and T-top covers that always seems to go missing about 20 minutes after the car was sold - you *never* see those, yet this car had them.
Both Der Stig and I play the "Guess The Driver/Owner" game when we see cars like this; we both agreed that it was most likely that the car had belonged to a woman, probably a secretary, who'd kept it most of its life.
Since we'd already wandered onto the property, we decided to check out other things on the smallish lot. There were three Pontiac G8s including two G8 GTs, both with laughable prices.
There were some more interesting things on the lot, too. There was the only factory version of the Pontiac Solstice even vaguely worth considering, the GXP:
One of the better things on the yard, this Mustang GT/CS:
This somewhat rare Accord Wagon was thoroughly trashed, but we figured someone had just traded this in and it would likely go straight to auction.
Off in a corner was this 2007 Pontiac GTO; black on black with the manual transmission.
No price marked, 45K on the clock, looked like it'd been sitting there a while - and they'd left it unlocked.
The interior was mostly in excellent shape except for the typical leather splitting at the top of the back seatrest. This car made me mad at GM dealers all over again - this was essentially the car I tried to buy back in the 2000s that I couldn't get Pontiac dealers to sell to me. Both Der Stig and I will be enquiring about this car in the morning.
It seems that someone just bought this:
And had been dissatisfied with their purchase:
There also was this monument to just how completely Mercedes Benz failed to comprehend the mainstream market segments in the North American market:
We decided that these two were probably the best values on the lot - this 2007 G35:
And this 2011 Mercedes E350 with 75K on the clock, loaded with pretty much every option, and selling for $21K with a warranty. You could have done a lot worse on that lot for $21K.
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