OT: ideas for a fun 4-person weekend/car show car, any ideas for something that almost as fun as a 914 Options

[siverson]

Now I'm that guy... I'm not selling the 914s, but my 2nd little one (William, now 8 months old) is going to be ready to face forward in the car seat at some point (within a year), and he'll likely be joining Lily (now 3) and I on trips to Cars & Coffee and runs up Palomar/etc. And then Mom is more likely to come too. Super Truck™ (CrewMax Tundra) is a great truck and amazingly convenient, but not so much *fun*.

Some ideas I've had...

BMW 2002
VW Golf/GTI (MK 1 or 2)
BMW 3.0cs
MB 6.9
356 (back seats are probably too small)

Any suggestions? I'm open to anything at the moment. Maybe even a big old American car... ?

-Steve

[siverson]

> A 2002 purchase can only be bad if you go into the purchase uninformed or without doing the right amount of research PRIOR to the purchase.

Somewhat true. I thought I had done enough "research", and if everything I was told was true, it would have been a good purchase and a fair price. But:

"no rust" != massive rust

"all original panels (except trunk floor)" != major front end collision repair (by the seller)

"needs nothing" != can not be registered, can not be driven with carpet installed, seats are broken and can not be sat in, etc

Did I verify that everything I was told was true? No. So my mistake was not verifying what I had been told was true. But I've bought 5 other cars on eBay with a similar amount of "research" and never had a problem because they were honest sellers and good buys for me.

But sellers can not fraudulently misrepresent a car. It's one thing to stay silent on an issue or say "I don't know", but you can't claim something (or many things) that you know are not true and then blame the buyer for not checking up on the seller to see if he was lying. That's illegal.

-Steve