John, are you serious when you say you'll buy it for the Challenge? 
John, are you serious when you say you'll buy it for the Challenge?
https://tucson.craigslist.org/cto/5850952856.html
I'd drive it.
Tucson is a good 6hr drive west of southern California. That's a nice Z though.
Another tempting choice
In reply to Tom Suddard:
Yes, I would buy it for The Challenge but I would rather not take ownership until the week before.
Q45 is too easy. 
And that could work. I'll let you know if I buy it.
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bentwrench wrote: MR2 Spyder
its on the route, and since they have to be in vegas at a certain time, buying after seems safer.
That's correct. But the MR2 is too expensive, unfortunately. 
Those Zs have never done anything for me, unfortunately.
Hmm, seems like cheating to both take the same car. We'd be able to share tools, parts, etc.
RX7?
Is all the rust free 70's J-tin gone from SoCal?
I haven't been there since the nineties, but that's what made the biggest impression on me the the last time I was out there. I guess I was GRM before I knew the magazine existed, because when when I was in Santa Barbara in 1993 I couldn't have cared less about all the exotics and most of the classics out driving around, it was stuff like the Subaru 360 van, mid seventies Toyota Celica that looked like a mustang fastback, with mini light wheels and Toyota racing livery and the unmolested Datsun 510 that got my attention. It was also the first time that I became aware of Mazda RX models that weren't ending in "7".
Most of those were long gone from the NE by the early eighties.
If I were going car hunting in SoCal, that's what I'd be after. Those or Baja bugs.
Note: I wouldn't turn my nose up at low (or mid) end pasta burner either, but I don't think I'd want to drive one coast to coast with having it thourgly vetted, and freshly serviced.
J-tin are still alive and running here. No where near $2,000 though.
In reply to yupididit:
What is the word coming to? You can buy an XJ-R for challenge money, but not a Datsun?!?
In reply to HappyAndy:
Basically lol. J-tin is actually desirable. Especially rust free.
70s celicas and datsun 510's are hard to come by in good shape, even here. I see the most J-tin when I visit the PNW.
Additional back up plans...
When you're done with this, I'd also buy it for Challenge.
Dakota Convertible pickup
Red turbo convertible but not Italian
Jensen Healey with Buick looks great and asking $2.5k
No comments on the car but looks like you are heading right through my neck of the woods in Austin. Let me know if you need anything on the way through.
Tom Suddard wrote: Hmm, seems like cheating to both take the same car. We'd be able to share tools, parts, etc.
Or it could lead to canibalism in the middle of the desert. "Two Alfas enter, one survives." Either way can be fun.
Tom Suddard wrote: Oh, yeah, you weren't in the office for this. We want to drive TWO red Italian convertibles across the country. What could go wrong?
Which one of you is Jeremy Clarkson and which one is James May? 
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