Esoteric Nixon
Esoteric Nixon UltraDork
9/11/15 4:43 p.m.

https://ashtabula.craigslist.org/cto/5213629741.html

It's cheaper!

JohnRW1621
JohnRW1621 MegaDork
9/11/15 9:55 p.m.

No kidding. I've watched this thing for nearly a year now. I first noticed it on eBay. It successfully sold for $1k. But, then it reappeared with all the same photos on CL for $2.5k.

I figured that winning $1k bit was a shill bid placed by the seller.

It is still over priced at $1k.
This is an odd, orphan brand that no one is looking for.

The pictures with snow in the background will soon be back in season!
How hard is it really to take fresh pictures?

chandlerGTi
chandlerGTi UltraDork
9/12/15 6:48 a.m.

In Ashtabula the snow piles never really melt though do they? I left Cleveland one sunny winter day and there was three fresh inches of snow by the time I hit austinburg. Lake effect at its worst.

XLR99
XLR99 GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
9/12/15 7:15 a.m.

Wow, I don't think I've seen one of those since the 90s!

Chandler - Man I hated living on the east side - one November I spent a whole weekend shoveling snow (10-12" worth), then went to Olmsted to see my wife (girlfriend then) and everyone was mowing lawns and raking leaves.

patgizz
patgizz GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
9/12/15 7:48 a.m.

I'd rock it if only for the WTF effect it'll have on people

drdisque
drdisque Reader
9/12/15 1:28 p.m.

Yeah, huge WTF impact on people.

"What kind of car is this?" "It's a Sterling" "What's that?" "So in the 80's this British car company Rover had really awful cars and instead of making better cars they paid Honda for the design of the Acura Legend, and assembled them themselves in England but with a different interior than the Legend, and then for some reason decided to sell them in the United States, but used the name Sterling because Rover was known for crappy cars and would confused with Land Rover in the US. Somehow they managed to sell 30,000 of them!"

JohnRW1621
JohnRW1621 MegaDork
9/13/15 6:50 a.m.

Sterling's highest trim was known as the 825sli which was a 5 door version.
I think very pretty!

http://bringatrailer.com/2014/09/02/nicest-one-left-1989-sterling-827-sli/

Esoteric Nixon
Esoteric Nixon UltraDork
3/3/16 9:56 a.m.

It's fallen on hard times...

https://ashtabula.craigslist.org/cto/5449515167.html

spitfirebill
spitfirebill PowerDork
3/3/16 10:27 a.m.

I know somebody that actually had one. It was everything we think they were. Only the Brits could screw up an Acura (Sterling) and a Honda Civic Triumph Acclaim)

JohnRW1621
JohnRW1621 MegaDork
3/3/16 1:48 p.m.

In reply to Esoteric Nixon:

I got a good chuckle! Imagine my surprise

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