u/LeadershipOld1857

Some guy just did one of the craziest builds I’ve seen lately. Got me unprepared.

502ci RamJet V8. Hand-painted murals by Dodie Mondero. Hurst shifter mounted to the ceiling. Air ride. Honda Odyssey bucket seats.

And a custom Weber grill + picnic table that pulls out of the trailer hitch. So you can grill burgers off your 1956 panel van at the car show.

$300k build. Just sold on BaT for $48k.
That’s burger dedication.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1956-ford-f-100-167-2/

I’m always searching for cool and fun cars for my daily game berniedaily.com - guess 10 cars a day, try to beat everyone else.

This truck is going in the lineup later this week.
Treat it as a discount code 😉

What’s the craziest or most fun car you’ve seen on BaT lately? Drop it in the comments.

Every car person I know either loves the S2000 or doesn't get it.

There's no in-between.

It's a 4-cylinder, rear wheel drive, no turbo, basic interior, weighs almost 3000 lbs, and was just a Honda when it came out. On paper, nothing special.

Early 2000's cars, and still a clean ones go for $30-35k and some of them hitting $60-80k!!

I see them in my morning routine on bringatrailer.com, carsandbids.com - always priced higher than I expect.

So what is it actually? VTEC at 9000 rpm? The chassis? The fact that Honda hasn't built anything like it since? Or is it just nostalgia pricing because we know there'll never be another?

Curious what people who've actually owned or driven one think.

Edit: a few people asking about the pricing data - I run a daily car price guessing game (berniedaily.com) and S2000s consistently get over-guessed. Worth a look if you want to test your gut.

I built a daily car price-guessing game. After 17,000 guesses, the cars where people are most wrong have one thing in common - they all get overvalued.

Every car in this top 10 was guessed too high. Not one underguess. People see "Lamborghini Jalpa" or "Porsche 356" or a famous Toyota Corolla and assume the market values them like the most expensive version of the lineage. It doesn't.

The Lamborghini Jalpa is the cleanest example - 253 people guessed it. Average guess: $374,606. Actual sale: $121,000. The Jalpa is the cheap V8 Lambo nobody remembers, but the badge does the thinking.

Source: berniedaily.com (game I built).
Sale prices from Bring a Trailer and Cars and Bids.
Tools: Postgres + Claude for the chart.