are a curious thing these days, and so is people’s . We may live in a bit of a topsy-turvy world, but some things still remain constants. One of those constants is that the nicest on Earth costs less than .

The long-dead General Motors J-Body really isn’t worth remembering, but this could be it’s finest example. For sale in my home state of New Jersey is this MINTY 1989 Pontiac Sunbird GT Convertible. It could very well be the nicest one in the entire country, but it still costs just $5,495. That’s just about $1,000 less than this autographed 8x10 photo of Elon Musk wearing a spacesuit that I found on eBay.

Sure, it’s got the structural rigidity of a chocolate eclair and looks that only whoever was running GM at the time could love, but it’s as clean as it gets. After 33 years and 134,000 miles, there’s hardly a scratch on her. The same cannot be said for this signed 8x10 photo of Elon Musk wearing a spacesuit that I found on eBay. It is not 33 years old, and will not get you from point A to point B with the same efficiency.

That being said, the Sunbird doesn’t come with a protective pouch to keep it safe from the elements. But, on the other hand, this signed 8x10 photo of Elon Musk wearing a spacesuit that I found on eBay doesn’t have a turbo or pop-up headlights.

My mom had a Sunbird in the early ‘90s before I was born. The power steering went out and the car was in such rough shape that when my father took it to get serviced, the mechanic accosted him for letting his wife drive such a piece of shit. Who knows, had my mom never gotten rid of her Sunbird, I may not be here today, writing a blog about how the nicest Pontiac SunbirdConvertible on Earth costs less than a signed 8x10 photo of Elon Musk wearing a spacesuit that I found on eBay.