Today on: Bad ideas cheap enough to consider 

"Kiltedpadre" (kiltedpadre) 04/26/2018 at 15:51 • Filed to: None

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https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/cto/d/1976-buick-opel/6536548309.html

We have a 1976 Opel Manta for $250 with a clear title.

Pros:

It’s cheap

It’s a good looking car (car pictured is not the one for sale)

It’s not 4 hours away

It looks like you won’t even need a chainsaw to get it out

Cons: Where am I going to get parts?

How long will my wife make me sleep in a tent (hey at least it’s spring)

It currently looks like this

I have the money to buy it, but it’ll probably be two years before I can afford to start really doing anything with it.

vicali > Kiltedpadre 04/26/2018 at 16:07

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Bad Ideas Cheap.

Now that sounds like an Oppo subgroup..

Kiltedpadre > vicali 04/26/2018 at 16:08

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I definitely think it should be.

vicali > Kiltedpadre 04/26/2018 at 16:08

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lone_liberal > Kiltedpadre 04/26/2018 at 16:11

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Is really a true project car if it doesn’t sit for a few years gathering dust in a garage? No, it is not. As for the parts you have them overnighted from Germany, of course.

Kiltedpadre > lone_liberal 04/26/2018 at 16:18

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My bad ideas get even more convoluted. Since these cars were sold through Buick dealers the obvious way around hard to find engine parts is to swap in a Grand National style drivetrain.

Kiltedpadre > vicali 04/26/2018 at 16:24

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That bad idea is right up my alley.

duurtlang > Kiltedpadre 04/26/2018 at 16:31

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Or a drive train from one of the last two generations of Buick Regal. To make the Opel/Buick circle really complete.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Kiltedpadre 04/26/2018 at 16:34

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No. Not even for $250. It’s too rough.

lone_liberal > Kiltedpadre 04/26/2018 at 16:35

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Nice thinking! Finding a 3.8 V6 for cheap shouldn’t be hard at all. Now actually getting it turbo-fied and installed in an Opel might be challenging but that’s way down the road. No use dwelling on it now.

Klaus Schmoll > Kiltedpadre 04/26/2018 at 16:45

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Manta-mino?

https://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/details.html?id=260726716&damageUnrepaired=NO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED&isSearchRequest=true&makeModelVariant1.makeId=19000&makeModelVariant1.modelId=15&maxFirstRegistrationDate=1975&minFirstRegistrationDate=1970&pageNumber=1&scopeId=C&searchId=48bf1bb9-8278-3bbd-ce47-3c157003c6bd

Kiltedpadre > Klaus Schmoll 04/26/2018 at 16:49

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Just looking at the picture gave me a spontaneous mullet.

I like it!

LongbowMkII > Kiltedpadre 04/26/2018 at 17:50

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Not worth it unless you already have a well thought out, and funded, plan of attack

Chariotoflove > Kiltedpadre 04/26/2018 at 19:05

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Well, look at it this way. The more useless junk like this you buy, the less you’ll have to give up to her in the divorce.

Kiltedpadre > Chariotoflove 04/26/2018 at 19:20

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But I love all my useless junk; I don’t wanna lose half!!

Chariotoflove > Kiltedpadre 04/26/2018 at 19:30

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Oh don’t worry. She won’t want the junk. She’s too smart for that. She’ll take what money you have left so you won’t have cash to work on the junk.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Kiltedpadre 04/27/2018 at 08:42

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GIB!

itranthelasttimeiparkedit > Kiltedpadre 05/02/2018 at 21:41

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We bought one to turn into a lemons car. The parts are surprisingly cheap/available, or can easily be substituted with something cheap/available if you research a bit. I vote go for it