How Does this Bite Your Banana?

"gokstate" (gokstate10) 01/24/2020 at 11:12 • Filed to: None

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Found for sale on !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! classifieds, for your scrutiny, a 1990 Chevy Beretta pace car edition with a scant 21 miles.

Count me among the Gen X-ers that would gravitate towards this at a car show and time warp back to high school looking at the serrated plastic shifter track

and the directional levers for seat adjustment.

And I’ve always been a sucker for a digital dash

This example has obviously been hermetically sealed since new,

and is now ready for its coming out party in 2020.

Except.....

well, this is awkward to say, but the asking price is a, ahem, rather ambitous, um, I’m not sure this is going to well, *cough*, no shame in asking, right?

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(Cue the expletives, laughs, vomiting).

Go back to whence you came little banana. Your time has not yet come...

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 11:19

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no lowballers I know what I’ve got

no tirekickers

Chuckles > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 11:19

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I love it, but the price is questionable even at 10% of asking price. But I'd love to own a clean Beretta someday. 

OPPOsaurus WRX > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 11:20

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can i take it for a test drive first

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 11:21

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https://boingboing.net/tag/bananas

E90M3 > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 11:25

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The only thing that makes this a CP is the auto. 

My bird IS the word > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 11:27

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How many miatas will that buy? For what reason do they think the beretta is collectable?

Can get a well optioned caterham 7 for that

vondon302 > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 11:32

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O_0

These were crap then and crap now.

Pickup_man > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 11:39

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I’ve always liked the Beretta , and I can see their prices climbing some, for really good examples, due to the Radwood effect, but this is ridiculous price. 

gokstate > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 11:40

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ack. Kinja’d my photo links.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 11:44

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$46k for a 1990's shit box? Oh hell no. A Porsche 964 , a 300zx TT, a FD RX7, Supra, Corvette ZR-1 those are cars that are worth the coin.

DutchieDC2R > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 11:46

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*sees title.....

Hopefully not too hard....

RallyWrench > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 11:48

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I am totally down with this, but the price is insane. 

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 11:58

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“ No Low-ballers, I know what I got...”

ranwhenparked > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 12:24

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A couple of friends in high school had Berettas, it was one of the worst driving experiences I can recall. Mushy suspension, vague steering, torque steer, and a terrible seating position. They made my Volvo 940 Turbo seem like a sports sedan in comparison. 

shop-teacher > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 12:57

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This is a classic example of a bad investment. Imagine being the sucker that bought a Be ret ta, and kept in hermetically sealed ... AS AN INVESTMENT!

I think the thing is really cool, and it’s worth about 10 of the asking price.

Long_Voyager94 > gokstate 01/24/2020 at 13:02

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Huh, my ma owned one of those a few years back. Had like 92k miles and was mint inside and out. Pretty sure she struggled to sell it for $1800.

Knock a zero off their price and it could be considered, even then, at 21 miles, it’s just a collector piece.

Long_Voyager94 > ranwhenparked 01/24/2020 at 13:03

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They must have all been basic ones. The GT/GTU/GTZ were tight, responsive, and supportive to drive. Sure they had some torque steer but nothing obnoxious.

ranwhenparked > Long_Voyager94 01/24/2020 at 13:54

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It was a GT, made me never want to drive one again.

Long_Voyager94 > ranwhenparked 01/24/2020 at 16:00

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Weird. We’ve had plenty in my family ( my Ma gets on a kick with a vehicle and goes through like 15 of the same car before moving to something else ), I found them to be pretty decent cars to drive. I mean they’re no sports car, but they’re firmly respectable for econo coupes.

ST80MND > gokstate 01/25/2020 at 08:42

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Even at 21 miles, I hesitate to refer to it as “collector”. Thats like saying a Bic pen from 1993 thats never been used is worth $300, but it is just a pen.