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This is one of the saddest things I've seen in the world of vintage rotaries. This guy somehow owns this Cosmo. Puts a stupid aftermarket steering wheel, shifter, and auto-zone-looking pedals on it, and does not even know what kind of engine it has.

How is that possible? I don't get it.... SAD.

Hopefully if the car sells it will go to someone who can live up to it.

 

this is sad... next thing you know the moron will want a sunroof and chop a whole in the roof...
Why would he put different seats in it? why change the steering wheel? why go to a 4 point harness? the cars value DECREASED A LOT when he removed the oem interior parts.... what a dumbass

 

^^^ Yes, I do agree. What an imbecile! Has no clue whatsoever.

 

Yeah, considering all the stuff it's missing or has been changed I'm surprised it went up to $40,XXX last time around. $52k seems insane to me.

Mike

 

Who cares? It's his car. Let him (them) do whatever they want. At least the mods are tastefully done. It looks good.

It's not like any of you are going to buy it anyways, so why act and feel butthurt.

 

Dam that looks like ****, the value is certainly decreased. I could understand even changing the seats, wheel, pedals, and shift ****. If those parts where very badly aged and worn (I would have the seats professionaly recovered).

I'm sure its hard to find OEM parts, but the choices he made just show a complete lack of taste.

 

regardless if we are going to buy it or not, its the true sentiment of a sport classic. why tear out the interior to put some gaudy instruments into it. i believe some will agree with me; why be embarassed in the rotary community by an owner who does not know how to fully appreciate a CLASSIC car? he shouldn't claim its rarety and its classical aspects if he modified it simply because he wants to be different? yes its his car.. yes he should do what he wants. but this is a classic car from which he cannot fully appreciate it properly

 

So what makes most of you think "he cannot full appreciate it properly"? Did he tell you guys personally that he doesn't appreciate his Cosmo?

What's wrong adding his own personal taste? It is his car after all. The rims and seats are pretty much the only thing that stands out on his Cosmo, and they're brand name parts anyways, so I don't know why most of you are making a fuss about parts that's easily interchangeable.

 

YOU want to keep it stock? BUY IT. Very simple. Until you pay the bills quit bitching about the mans car

 

The auction text gives the impression that the seller is not very knowlegable about the car and it just struck me as odd that the owner of such as car would be anything other than a true-blue and consummate rotary connoisseur.

 

You know, I think its probally still worth it to someone that is that much of an enthusiest. One could ask if he kept what he took out its possible he still has the wheels. But it opens an interesting debate.

I *ONCE* was in the same mindset as him. My dad owns a 1965 Olds Cutlass that has been in the family longer than I. Over time one of the cylinders went out. so as a result it has now been sitting for about 12 years. Right when it started going out of commission, was right when I was really getting into cars in auto shop. He had a settlement coming.

So of course I wanted nothing more than to put like an 800HP 455 in it. For a time it was a possibility. I kept trying to talk him into it. Finally we talked to a mechanic/enthusiest, to rebuild it (as one option) and he said wed be crazy to do something like that!

'The fact you have something from 1965, in excellent (other than motor) condition, #'s matching and completely unmolested is so rare, itd be a damn shame...'

And from then on those words stuck. Never before, but now I could finally see the beauty in keeping something stock and original. So right after this is when I discovered RX7's

When I got my rx7 it also was completely stock, but somehow thats different.. Perhaps cause its a sports car, looks like its going fast parked, and was built with high speeds in mind.. Besides, the Cutlass is a total crusing car.

Apparantly this person never had their 'mechanic' set them straight unfortunately. Im just glad it hit me before I made the same mistake! Hopefully this prevents someone else doing the same thing.

The logic is theres so many molested cars out there, why not get one fo those to build and tinker with ?

 

the car looks very clean... it could have been restored... and the parts there where changed where missing or could not be fixed...or the parts could have been changed in the 70's when some1 raced it back in the day... only to have the old aftermarket parts updated
the guy could have loved the car and bought it like that.. any way you look at it its not a bad car... im sure if it was MOMO seats,belts,shift nobe,pedels,steering wheel you wouldint be bitching at much...... i like the car and i would drive the hell out of it

 

that's because he isn't knowledgable so he is going to rant about its rarety and extravagance to pull the price up. right on if he wants to do that. right on if he wants to change things and ad his own personal taste. but the car is not worth that much as he is boasting

 

So far, that's only you and a couple of others' impression. There are others who would disagree. This isn't a one-sided point of view after all.

Also, what makes you think the seller is not knowledgeable nor a connoisseur? If he believes he can command that much of an asking price, he's obviously not retarded and know what he's got.

 

The listing Ebayer appears to be a professional online auction listing service

 

All mods could be set back reasonably easily - ie all bolt on (assuming the parts could be found). Its not like he's done any crazy engine swaps ... could be much worse.

 

It's possible the originals were too far gone to be saved... or perhaps this stuff was done to the car when it wasn't considered a classic. That's why classics get rare, because people don't realize they're going to be valuable.

 

is it possible the oem parts were not in good shape and needed replacing....i don't like it either but i mean it's still his car and we don't know the reasons behind the mods....