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Old 03-27-2016, 02:45 PM
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https://orlando.craigslist.org/cto/5510326125.html
Quite the deal at $70k

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Old 03-28-2016, 09:04 AM
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Clean car but not sure if you accidentally typed an extra zero or erroneously saw one in the ad.

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Old 03-28-2016, 11:35 AM
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Clean car but not sure if you accidentally typed an extra zero or erroneously saw one in the ad.
Yesterday the ad said $70000.

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Old 03-28-2016, 10:11 AM
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What is the knob between the dash and a/c duct? I don't recognize that icon on the knob. I though ram air, but there is no scoop or even cold air intake on this car.
Fresh air cowl vents. My AMC/Jeep J10 has the same knobs.

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Old 03-27-2016, 04:41 PM
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Danc. Looks like a rear window defrost. Switch. On my phone so kind of hard to see.

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Old 03-29-2016, 06:42 AM
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I'd never seen this before recently. The original concept that became the production Gremlin. This car would sell today I think...


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Old 03-29-2016, 12:25 PM
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Old 03-27-2016, 08:33 PM
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http://roseburg.craigslist.org/cto/5510976505.html

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The ad says they're selling a Neon, but damned if I can see a car in the pictures?

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Old 03-28-2016, 11:59 AM
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At $7,000 it's actually a pretty nice car....at $70,000...not so much.

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Old 03-28-2016, 09:47 PM
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I actually liked the initial few years of the Gremlin back then. I was just getting to driving age and was working...somehow I thought a little car like that was attainable.
I still don't think the early ones are bad looking. I don't care at all for the looks of one in the Craigslist ad though.

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Old 03-28-2016, 11:29 PM
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Agree on the early Gremies were even w the straight-6 stripper standard trans econo models like our neighbors across street when new in '72 was school bus yellow base model poverty caps and all...I thought it was cool.

Better was later in High School one of the guys had a Black w Black gut Gremlin with a blood red Gremlin X stripe 401 4-spd w Keystone Classic mags and 50 series fat tires...was said it would pull front wheels in the air during power shifts...same guy had @ same time had a Honda CBX 6-cylinder bike w Kerker Header and Sticky tires...about same paint job as the Gremi IIRC. times

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Why?

http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/cto/5499783633.html

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Old 04-07-2016, 12:52 PM
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Yeah...well...it's epic!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pontiac-Tran...3D391402282504

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Old 04-07-2016, 01:17 PM
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Not sure which is worse, the car or the movie trailer. Actually, put the stock rim size back on it and it would be pretty nice. So, yeah the movie is worse.

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Not really a Craigslist ad as a FB friend spotted it for sale in NY.
Had a price of $6K on it. The bed is 12 feet long!


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Have no problem selling my Pontiacs off, but my 50,000 mile 75 red Pacer is a keeper. Owned it since 1993. For the lousy 12-15 grand its worth, its a stayin with me. Gremlins, especially that 1978 are few and far between.

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"220, 221...whatever it takes?"

http://honolulu.craigslist.org/oah/pts/5503959792.html

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If I was in Hawaii and if I was interested, of which I'm NEITHER, how do you actually call him seeing there isn't a phone number listed???

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If I was in Hawaii and if I was interested, of which I'm NEITHER, how do you actually call him seeing there isn't a phone number listed???

Just wondering???
If you hit the reply button his name & number come up. It's Craigslist's technique to confuse the bots.

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