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In Latin Corona means Crown and today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Toyota has been restored so as to be fit for a king. Its price however, might just prove too princely a sum.

Yesterday's Cobra-powered '70 Bronco looked pretty sweet, but apparently its price did not. In fact, 67% of you, while appreciative of the effort that went into the truck, voted that wild horses couldn't drag you to pay its thirty-two five asking.

Do you have a soft spot in your heart for the third-generation of Toyota's horn-rimmed glasses on wheels, the Corona? If your name's Murilee Martin and a Corona was your first ride you most certainly do, but perhaps others of you also happen to have a jones on for some vintage Toyota steel.

Murilee claims that there's little collectable value in the early Corona's outside of Japan, but Jimny Cricket, don't tell that to the seller of this completely restored 1970 Corona Deluxe. Given such an opinion, he might just book a boat to the Land of the Rising Sun, and that would deprive us of the opportunity to judge both his restoration acumen as well as his sense of the market value for the quaint little cars here.

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You might remember the Corona as Toyota's answer to Nissan's Bluebird (510) series. Sadly for Toyota, they didn't have anyone as prominent as Pete Brock to race Coronas and hence today they aren't as sought after as are the Dimes.

This one is pretty cool looking however, with innocuous cream-colored paint capped with a black vinyl roof, a combination that - along with the general boxy lines - gives the car the look, from certain angles, of a Triumph Dolomite.

Power is provided by Toyota's sturdy R-series, likely here an 85-horse 7R which is what I think was dropped into U.S.-bound Coronas. That's backed up by a four-speed stick with a shift lever long enough to serve double duty as a pool cue.

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That stick sits in a plain, low, grey carpeted tunnel in an otherwise parsimonious interior. Vinyl seats and lots of painted metal on the inside belie the Deluxe-ness promised of the badging, but it does look refreshingly simple and honest.

Everything else on the car, from lights to badging and brightwork, appears to be in fine shape, and even the rubber baby buggy bumpers on the front and rear chrome blades looks to have been refreshed.

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The ad claims 4,000 miles since the restoration and that all parts put into the car are from Toyota as apposed to, say, Cuisinart or the Hustler Store. Along with the black-plate car it looks like your purchase would gain you a good bit of reading material as the seller is throwing in some Corona brochures and manuals.

To start your reading rainbow, and to call this Corona your own, you'd need to come up with $10,500. That's about four times what this Toyota cost new, and you now need to determine if its price is nice.

What do you think about this restored Corona for $10,500, is that a deal? Or, is that a price not even Murilee could love?

You decide!

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For $10,500, This Bavaria Takes A Stance insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

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You can drop the bass, you can drop your pants, and as today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW proves, you can also drop your Bavaria. This Internet famous blue bomb is seriously stanced, but does its price also need to be… well, you know.

With its massive 94% Crack Pipe loss, yesterday's 1978 Firebird Kammback illustrates that old saying about how the operation was a success, but the patient died. That beast was damn unique, but then again so is having a second head. Today we're going to have a bit of a palette cleanser, in the form of a 1972 BMW Bavaria that must be an environmentalist because it's trying to get in touch with the Earth.

You might remember the Bavaria from such decades as the Seventies, and as BMW's precursor to the 7-series in their eternal war with Mercedes and their S-class. Sold only in the U.S. under the name, the Bavaria was basically a 2500 sedan with the Neue Klasse 2.8-litre six dropped in. That Baron Alexander von Falkenhausen-designed SOHC hemi-head mill pumped out 192-bhp from the factory, and could be paired with either a 4-speed manual or a 3-speed automatic for people who hate fun.

In this 1972 edition, the stick rules. The car does too, having been fitted with custom Airlift struts and an AccuAir leveling system, it'll be able to win the office limbo contest at the holiday party even beating that woman from accounting who doesn't wear any underwear.

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The air suspension obviously allows for a variety of ride heights from street traversing but low, to crazy camber no ant shall pass Earth scraper. Since a stanced ride is all about the relationship between car and wheel, you would expect the choice of tire mount to be well considered and that's just the case here with a nice set of 17-inch Impul Silhouettes.

Those shiny wheels work well with the night blue metallic paint and restrained brightwork. Out back you might lament the trunk space given up to the air suspension system, but of course the world is all about compromise. There's apparently no compromise however with the car mechanically, as the ad notes it runs great, having had a recent tune up and gaining a small number of parts (brake master, windshield) recently replaced.

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The ad notes that the car has about 123K on the clock and that its builder and current owner - Shea - has put about 8,000 on it in the past year taking it to shows and apparently not to the store to restock his fridge. Do you want to meet Shea? Well, of course you do.

Tough times are over, the Bavaria goes lower. from Mikey Gaumann on Vimeo.

Okay, so like most of us, Shea has put not just blood sweat and tears into his car but a lot of cash as well. And just like a lot of us, once he was done building and enjoying the fruits of his labor, he wants to sell it. And in Shea's case that means asking $10,500 for those very same fruits.

Now that we've met Shea and had an Instagrammed look at his slammed Bavaria, what do you say about his pricing acumen? Do you think that this BMW is worth dropping that much over? Or, is this a Bavaria with a Ba-very bad price?

You decide!

San Francisco Bay Area Craigslist, or go here if the ad disappears.

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For $10,000, Come To Your Sensonics insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

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Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Saab 900 is claimed to have had not one but three Saab master mechanics as previous owners. That's a good thing owing to its being an uber rare Sensonic edition, but will you find it's been priced to make someone its new master?

Yesterday's tidy 5.0 Bronco II wasn't bucking any trends, bringing home the Canadian bacon with a 76% Nice Price win. That boxy SUV from the eighties was imbued with greatness for its engine and gearbox transplant, but we've got another car today with a similar switcheroo, but while it does apparently drive, this one's literally built for show.

Have you finally realized GM's plan for world automotive domination? Instead of competing with great products, they buy up competitors, pollute their product lines until even the most loyal of fans say, eww, this is as bad as that Cavalier we rented in California. They then kill off the now unpopular brand while rubbing their hands together and cackling manically.

You think GM stands for General Motors? Nope, it really means Gunning for Marques. That's what happened to Isuzu, Pontiac ('course that one took longer than planned) and most sadly of all, Sweden's Saab.

Of course some of Saab's fatal wounds were self-inflicted, and one of those was the ill conceived Sensonic gearbox fitted to some less fortunate European NG 900 models in '94 and '95. The Sensonic is a manual gearbox that gives inept car jackers a fighting chance by automating the clutch action. You still have to move the five-speed gear lever between the cogs, but your legs get a break by not having to participate in your poor ability to find the right gear.

How does the Sensonic work? Well, it doesn't all that well, and in fact if you happened to catch the Top Gear special; The Worst Car… in the World, you might have seen James May's attempt to parallel park a convertible edition, the result being the expected hilarity and a pile of broken tail lamp lens on the rustic cobblestones.

Actually, the Sensonic works by way of tiny Swedish gnomes who live under the floor and work the clutch when their gnome sense determines that you want to change gears, hence the name Sensonic. This may or may not be accurate, it's just how I imagine such things work.

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This one is unique in that it is apparently the only one in the U.S.. Built off of a three-door NG 900, it's claimed to have been a show car and possesses a number of other features not found on the stock Opel Saab 900. Those include Viggen seats, a rebuilt 2.0-litre turbo motor, and custom wheels intended to wrap around Brembo four-pot brakes. Oh and to give you an edge up on those aforementioned car jackers, the exterior door handles have been shaved like an angry cat.

The three previous owners are all claimed to be both fully competent wrenches as well as folks who take really good care of their toys. The two pics included of the car back this up as the car looks clean as a bean. This generation of 900 isn't the most beloved and usually finding one for sale means a fright pig- or fright moose as the case may be.

This one's not only fantastic looking but it's also probably the only opportunity any American is likely to have to rock a Sensonic edition. That model's lifespan in Yurrup was a short two models years owing to its monumental unreliability, but if you feel up to the challenge then perhaps this is the show car for you and your chronic restless leg syndrome, and hence we should consider what it costs.

Should that be the case, or if you just want to voice an opinion on the matter, the asking price for this one-of-a-kind Saab is $10,000. That gets you a cool car and bragging rights, plus all that gearbox voodoo.

What's your take on this unique opportunity and its ten-grand price? is that a super deal? Or, does that price set off your Saaby Senses?

You decide!

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