Currently on ebay with a 30-day want-ad listing. Not an auction. There is a "make offer" option. https://www.ebay.com/itm/197248081831?mkpid=0&emsid=e11021.m164380.l178263&ch=osgood&euid=366e2869dee04ca19488865d048b66fd&bu=43187981019&ut=RU&osub=-1~1&crd=20250424025134&segname=11021&recoId=197248081831&recoPos=1 Asking price is $17,995, which is way too much in my opinion. The car is described as a barn find, and most barn finds I've ever been aware of need lots of work no matter how original they are. The odometer reads 21,000, and that may very well be correct. Beautiful setting to take photos. I note a few issues. 1. I think the car has been repainted. The give-away is the pinstriping. At the rear of the car, it should extend all the way onto the plastic fender extensions right up to the vertical chrome piece. On this car, it stops at the fender extension. This is very commonly done when one of these is repainted. It's usually because, when the pinstripe is replaced, the person doing it doesn't know better. 2. There is some deterioration around the wheel well openings behind the chrome strips. 3. The air cleaner has been repainted or something because the distinctive blue "Toronado - Front Drive" decal on the air cleaner cover is missing. Seems odd that it's not there. I've seen these cars with many more miles than this one with the decal still intact. It does have the flexible snorkel tube that runs from the air cleaner to the front of the car. These are never there on any of these I've seen. The fact that it's still there on this one supports the mileage being only 21K. 4. This is a little thing that caught my eye. The car has a trip odometer, but the little knob that protrudes through the clear plastic cover so that you can reset it is missing. The hole in the clear plastic cover that the knob would extend through is there, but the shaft and knob are missing, and it doesn't look like there ever was one. Overall, the car is very nice. The trunk compartment looks to be pristine. The fender extensions are in great shape. No way to tell if they're original or replacements, which I guess is the point. He admits that the A/C doesn't work (it rarely does on these cars after so many years) and that the power steering pump leaks. I would say that this car is worth maybe $10,000. I wish him luck!
What is the point of having a trip odometer if you can't reset it? That seems strange. I've seen cars that just have a clear plastic plug to fill that hole when it wasn't used. Overall this car seems pretty meh to me and the exterior pics while shot with a nice background don't show the car very well. It looks like it is from Washington so it should be relatively rust free.
There is no point. I think the thing here is that some weird work has been done to this car. The hole in the clear plastic bezel is in the correct place, but there is no opening in the faceplate behind it for the shaft to protrude through. It doesn't look like there ever was a place for the shaft to be. Maybe they had to replace the black faceplate at some point, and all they had was one from a car that did not have a trip odometer. On cars without it, the locations where the trip odometer and fuel economy gauge are located are just blanked off. I'm sure it's no trouble to remove them for cars that did have these options. Now what could happen to the speedometer faceplate that would require replacing it? I have no idea. Here's what the reset shaft and knob should look like.
