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Old 01-13-2024, 11:34 AM
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Default 71 Esprit, love it or hate it

I suppose this one may be polarizing, either love or hate. Personally I like it.

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Old 01-13-2024, 12:21 PM
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Old 01-13-2024, 12:25 PM
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Love it.

Is just an Esprit, might as well have some fun with it!

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Old 01-13-2024, 12:55 PM
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No thanks. I'd be embarrassed to drive it. They ruined the dash with the cheap looking modern electronic screens.

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Old 01-13-2024, 01:17 PM
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I like it, but I’d want the dash to match the warbird better.

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Old 01-13-2024, 01:27 PM
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I like it. I am in aviation so I guess that helps, and it will run great on 100LL! ��
The only negative I see is the stupid freaking red Buick air cleaner decal. For the love of God, why do 90% of the Pontiacs for sale have those damn things??

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Old 01-13-2024, 02:00 PM
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I like it, but I’d want the dash to match the warbird better.
Yeah, I agree about the instruments. Not a fan. I was mainly referring to the aircraft wrap. Of course, I'm a fan of WWII era war planes.

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Old 01-13-2024, 03:35 PM
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Nothing a 30k paint job couldn't fix.

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Sweet track car and it’s a wrap so the paint underneath is probably nice.

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Not exactly my bag…but also kinda cool.

Question about BAT listings….are they written by some AI program? Some of the verbiage is comically odd, to downright bizarre. I learned from this listing that 2nd gen birds had rear bench seats, all these years I was blissfully unaware of that.

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Creative, for sure!

Unique, I suspect so!

I like that it comes with a nerf gun.

Are we sure this isn't a product of the AI Image Creator web site?

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I was told not to be negative.lol

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At least they did not put an LS in it!!!! But woulda been fitting for the build. Ha

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Kinda fun to see but not on my personal car.

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Blech !

I’m sure many other people would say that about what I like too.

Building something ‘different’ like that for yourself as a keeper is fine but expecting to get good money for something personalized like that is questionable at best.

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Car was 100X better before the wall-to-wall stickers.

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It’s like that cobra they did at Dan Shorts place with the machine guns in the hood.
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Old 01-14-2024, 12:42 PM
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It comes with a free pair of sneakers, so that's something. Remove the wrap and it's a pretty cool car.

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