Ok, I need some help. a friend of mine at work recently sold one of his cars and is now in the market for a sporty car. problem is he only has 10k. I've never looked for a car with a budget greater then 2k LOL

so i thought it would be fun to help him. but the problem is, if your spending 10k you don't want anything wrong with it, but you can't really get anything interesting for 10k....
He found a 83 SL500 AMG on ebay, but it had a list longer then my arm of failed smog tests, being in CA thats a very bad thing. other then the car was amazing!!!!
so... hes not looking for a Mercedes, but grew-up in one so hes been looking at them a lot. brand aside, whats a sporty coupe for under 10k that is interesting? (Not a Chevy

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