6.7L Twin-Turbo LS2 Powered Saturn Sky on BaT

I approve this application of fabrication and hoonery.

$28,000. It sold for twenty-eight thousand dollars.

I'm feeling ill.

I'd roll that! Great deal.

@Stan Galat posted:

$28,000. It sold for twenty-eight thousand dollars.

I'm feeling ill.

Yep, all the real 968, 944 Turbo, Boxsters, XK-8, SLs, Z3/4, Austin Healys, MGBs, Alfa Spiders, etc etc that go for $15-$30K* really makes me wonder about $60K Speedster replicas.

* Should really be $25K because any one of those cars that go for $25-$30 are phenomenal examples.

The LS-in-a-Solstice swap can almost be justified. Twin turbos? Nah.

All you can do with that is press the gas gingerly to get wherever, or mash it and die in a ball of flames. It's exactly as useable as a big block-powered barstool.

Just dumb.

More is more.

"more is more" the man says.  corollary: enough is never enough.

“Too much is just about right.”  

Then the barstool would be "much better" and more valuable if its motor had an 8-71 blower on top, right?

Meanwhile, elsewhere: https://bringatrailer.com/list..._campaign=2024-01-20

These kinds of auctions remind me of that scene in Spinal Tap. "Don't touch it! It caunt be played!"

@edsnova posted:

Then the barstool would be "much better" and more valuable if its motor had an 8-71 blower on top, right?

It would. I was a bit disappointed it didn’t.

I'd like to see a race between that jet skateboard and the bar stool. Looks like he was doing about 35 mph.

Winner could race the Demon 170 that just got an rnm at $201k (except...no, putting another quarter mile on that would diminish its market value by at least $10,000).

My money’s on the Demon.

I think a Demon may hold the current record for quickest time from zero to the first telephone pole. I assume that title was wrestled away from a Mustang leaving Cars and Coffee, but I don't have a copy of the record book handy to check. This would mark a return of the championship to the Dodge/Chrysler fold. They hadn't held it since 1992 when a gentleman wrapped his new Viper around a telephone pole 1000' from the dealership on route 23 in Verona, NJ. He was unable to collect his trophy at the awards ceremony as he had a funeral to attend.

For me the barstool and the jet-board win the overall award in a tie (speed event, plus concours judging). They show an expression of intentional, calculated, devil-may-care daring do that whipping out a checkbook just can't recreate.  Not even if you wear a big cowboy hat (I'm looking at you, Bezos).

Of course, there was the driver of the gray Porsche leaving a car show in Boise, nails it and injures 11.  Often a inverse relationship between h.p. and smarts for some of these owners.  Nice video on internet to confirm his IQ.

Barstool racing, but (surprisingly) they are not V8-powered. (yes they still crash though)