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02/25/2014 at 12:05 • Filed to: Daily Turismo
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"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo)
02/25/2014 at 12:05 • Filed to: Daily Turismo | 0
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The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a critic as: "one who expresses a reasoned opinion on any matter especially involving a judgment of its value, truth, righteousness, beauty, or technique." Follow along as we analyze a pair of GT6 coupes for sale on ebay.
Here at the Daily Turismo we take pride in not just regurgitating the latest listings of a pre-ordained set of cars deemed "cool" by internet pundits and strive to express an opinion on the cars we feature. We are critics!! Hear us roar!! Unfortunately, the use of the word reasoned is often a stretch....anyway...today we bring two cars, similar in their condition and both bidding on ebay with a few days to go and we will dissect them with a freshly inked fountain pen in the categories of value , truth , righteousness , beauty and technique . In one corner we have the a maroon !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! currently bidding for $5,300 with 3 days to go in Peculiar, MO and in the other corner is a white !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! currently bidding for $6,100 with Galion, OH with 5 days to go.
technique
Starting off with an easy category, lets look at the technique of each seller. Both seller's are using a run-of-the-mill private auction, but the white car has no reserve and a seller with the name Investments 2001, with an ebay description of Based in United States, investments2001 has been an eBay member since Oct 18, 2001. Sort of gives you the impression that this dude bought a bunch of old British cars in 2001 and is now trying to offload them for profit. The red car on the other hand has a reserve and is offered from a seller with zero recent feedback and registered on ebay literally last week. Yikes! Further internet sleuthing unearths that Desneux Motorsports was !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , has a brand !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and is located in Peculiar, MO — everybody has got to start somewhere right? The biggest difference in technique however, is the use of crappy 640 pixel wide images in the snow by Investments2001, while Desneuxmotorsports uses proper 1600-pix wide image. In an ebay add, good photos triumphs all other information and the prize for technique goes to the red robin.
truth
Frankly, the content of the description on both of these ads is
appalling I would have expected better from anyone who has sold, or is
planning on selling a car on ebay. The red car ad is particularly
barren, with zero details on condition of any components, problems,
recent work — just a few lines about the miles looking original but
cannot be verified and a set of California blue plates that expired in
the 1970s and were probably never associated with the car and just used
for pics (we've seen that trick before). However...one small sparkle of
truth shines free in the white knight, when the seller says that he was
"asked all day today
"what is that, or that's so cool.""
This isn't like the time I
had this thing on my neck and people were asking "what it that;" but I
know an actual bona fide GT6 owner and enthusiast (not the Hack
Mechanic, he hates the GT6 like it tried to eat his children) who says
that his rusted hulk of a GT6 attracts crowds at his yearly pilgrimage
to the Monterey Historics. He claims to have once
almost
run over a small dog due to the crowds of Japanese tourists following him around.
Truth
goes to the white knight.
beauty
Beauty is easier quantify, but more difficult to judge when you have cars that are so similar. The maroon color of the red robin is so dark that combined with the liveresq shape of the GT6 it almost looks like something you pull from the guts of a turkey on thanksgiving morning before roasting it. White on the other hand...would look great with a racing strip, a few numbers or some "Fred's Towing and Bait Shop" decals, but as is it looks like a fleet car for a local city entity. You could stick a round City of Van Nuys decal on the side and never get another parking ticket in the Valley . Beauty goes to the red robin, because red is a color, white is base coat.
righteousness
The word righteous, comes from ye old English
rihtws,
which mean
right & wise. The modern definition puts a religious and moral
spin in it, but in this case we need only to look at the routing of
wires/cables under the hoods of the two cars, for as it is written in
the
Book of Lucas,
Chapter 2, verses 19-22;
He whoeth shall route thy wires cleanly under thy hood shall be the righteous man,
and his maiden shall wear shoes suitable for pushing a stalled automobile.
The prize for righteousness goes to the red robin for tidy spark plug wiring.
value
Value is a very subjective term, but it could be considered a summation
of all the previous points, and the red robin has so far beaten the
white knight on 3 of 4 points. To add insult to injury the current
bidding price on the white knight is also slightly higher (albeit, with
fewer days remaining), but the red robin has an unknown reserve...and
for this reason, the value award goes to the white knight.
In conclusion, we have created a critical analysis of these two GT6's
instead of our regular analysis that just criticizes. Final score; red
robin 3 vs white knight 2.
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Photo credits; ebay.