The vendor of in the present day’s Good Worth or No Cube 200SX could also be acquainted to anybody who frequents YouTube’s automotive content material. Let’s see if this tradition convertible’s worth has us altering the channel.
Naturally cyclical, the basic automobile market is now in one among its downturns. Proper now, in actual fact, it’s seemingly as delicate as a day-old birthday balloon. That makes it difficult for sellers, particularly these making an attempt to hawk vehicles needing restoration, since that’s assured to be a monetary gap with no backside. It’s simply such a frightening problem dealing with the vendor of the 1967 Lotus Elan SE venture we checked out yesterday. They’d already dropped the worth by $3,500 to $16,950, but it surely nonetheless appeared an excessive amount of, as evidenced by the astonishing 99 p.c No Cube loss it suffered.
In case you in any respect comply with the hijinks of our good buddy Tyler Hoover, purveyor of the self-described “Dumbest Automotive Channel in All of YouTube,” then you definitely’ve probably seen a number of of his encounters with native Wichita, Kansas automobile seller Euroasian Bob, whom Hoovie jokingly likes to name “Urination Bob.”
Bob has his personal YouTube presence, as does seemingly each single particular person in Sedgwick County with a automobile and a Harbor Freight membership card. Bob’s channel is extra of an advertorial instrument, typically selling the weirder or extra attention-grabbing vehicles and vans he comes throughout after which places up on the market.
This 1983 Datsun 200SX convertible is a type of vehicles. It’s an aftermarket convertible conversion executed by an organization out of Beverly Hills, California, referred to as American Customized Coachworks, and is one among a handful that the corporate decapitated with Datsun’s blessing.
Datsun constructed two bodystyles for the 200SX within the early Nineteen Eighties: a two-door notchback and a three-door hatch. That lineup would proceed by means of the next two generations however began with this version. As you would possibly anticipate, the convertible is predicated on the notchback coupe. This one is all of the extra distinctive for having a five-speed stick behind its 103 horsepower 2.0-liter 4. I’m calling that out as I simply so occurred to see one other one among these on the San Marino Automobile Present this previous weekend, however that, like most, was an computerized.
In response to Bob, the automobile has solely 66,000 miles on the clock and is in glorious operating situation. It does endure some beauty blemishes, and with the highest up, it seems prefer it has simply rolled away from bed.
On the plus facet, the inside seems in glorious situation and has all of the great, fiddly little buttons and levers on the sprint that ’80s automobile patrons apparently liked. These additionally had a voice announcement system warning when lights had been left on, or a door was ajar. That’s achieved utilizing a small document participant in a shock-proof field below the sprint. How bizarre is that? The title is clear, and Euroasian Bob is asking $9,995 for the sale.
What’s your tackle this tradition convertible and fiver-away from ten-large asking? Does that appear truthful, given the automobile’s distinctive stature? Or is Euroasian Bob pissing within the wind on this one?
You resolve!
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