The New York Knicks just won their first NBA championship in 53 years, and Jalopnik’s Amber DaSilva did what any reasonable person would do: she themed her entire weekly Facebook Marketplace car roundup around blue and orange vehicles. The result is oddly delightful, surprisingly difficult to pull off, and a reminder that Marketplace’s search function remains, in her words, “truly dogshit.”
The parade was on one monitor. The listings were on the other. What emerged is a ten-vehicle collection that ranges from a $2,500 Isuzu i-280 with an AK-47 silhouette sticker to a $15,900 1988 Lincoln Town Car with a landau top that started the whole idea in the first place.
The standouts tell you everything about the used car market in 2026. A 1973 Volkswagen Super Beetle dune buggy on Long Island — nowhere near any actual dunes — asking $8,999. An Estoril blue 1998 BMW E36 M3 convertible for $13,000, with an interior that looks shockingly good for its age. The seller would trade it for a 100-series Land Cruiser, which is either delusional or shrewd depending on which Facebook group you ask.
Then there’s the 2005 Dodge Ram 1500 Daytona for $10,000, a truck that reminds you of a very specific moment in American culture when every parking lot had a bewinged muscle truck in orange or yellow and the TSA was still a novelty. DaSilva is self-aware enough to note she’s on a “pickup BS” kick after a press loaner endeared her to the open bed, but too big isn’t her style. She’s a “quarter-ton girlie,” preferring older and smaller.
The motorcycle picks are just as telling. A 2022 Royal Enfield INT650 for $4,200 — technically not called an Interceptor in the U.S. because Honda holds that trademark — gets the kind of endorsement that should worry every other entry-level bike manufacturer. It won’t blow you away, won’t pamper you on the highway, but it will be the perfect around-town machine for any skill level. A 2015 Yamaha V-Star for $4,000 gets a more creative pitch: strip it, restyle it like a club Dyna, and channel your inner Sons of Anarchy character. Not Jax Teller, though. Half-Sack.
A 1973 Chevy Nova for $6,000 comes plastered in Harley-Davidson stickers and includes a second engine, a full 100 cubic inches bigger than the 250-cubic-inch inline-six under the hood. DaSilva compares the swap prospect to starting a new racing video game — assume it’s easy, put zero thought into actually doing it.
The Lincoln Town Car is where the column gets its sharpest edge. DaSilva points out that this 1988 model existed in the same era as the first Miata and the S13 240SX, cars that arrived just one year later. Go look at an NA Miata, she suggests, then come back to this boxy barge. The gap between them is the gap between Detroit and the competition that ate it alive.
A 2010 Nissan Frontier for $3,300 looks almost new, and a 2019 Harley-Davidson Breakout 114 for $17,000 rounds out the collection — a bike designed in 2019 to look like something from 2003, which DaSilva can’t decide is better or just something.
The whole exercise is a love letter to the specific joy of browsing Marketplace with a theme and a championship buzz, finding cars that are impractical, overpriced, underpriced, weird, or wonderful. Facebook’s algorithm doesn’t make it easy. The Knicks winning their first title since 1973 made it necessary.
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