http://www.ebay.com/itm/1959-Nash-Metropolitan-No-Reserve-/301122102877?pt=Salvage_Parts_Cars&hash=item461c46a65d&vxp=mtr#ht_264wt_1338 or http://www.ebay.com/itm/1983-Lamborghini-Jalpa-/181306156283?pt=Salvage_Parts_Cars&hash=item2a36b064fb&vxp=mtr#ht_23wt_1338
goldmine http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lotus-ELITE-2-ECLAT-PARTS-rock-crawler-lifted-4x4-/151157139620?pt=Salvage_Parts_Cars&hash=item2331aae8a4&vxp=mtr#ht_2068wt_1338
The Nash would be my pick. E36 M3can the rest..
Ooooh, Jalpa.
The Jalpa missing an engine doesn't concern me nearly as much as it missing all the front end parts. 
If any of you guys buy the Jalpa, I think I have an extra tail light for it out in my barn.
WTF?? When did Jalpa's become that expensive? Last time I checked, you could buy a good runner for 12K. Admitedly, that was 10 years ago, but still. For a sane price, I'd rock it...and regret it every day I'd own it. They were bad back then, I'm sure they haven't gotten better.
I'd be tempted to do a reverse Decepzione and put a 2.4 Turbo in the Jalpa.
As long as you retain the gated shifter.
Hell i see the Jalpa and think SHO engine and 5 speed to fit under the gate.
Sounds like that should solve reliability, make it faster, hell turbo it for a way up boost in speed.
I have always thought it would be sorta cool to stuff a turbo rotary in a Metropolitan, add some state of the art suspension stuff, flare hell out of the fenders (but keep the original wheel opening shape) and run Modified with it.
Not into Italian exotics, but I could see mating a 1UZFE Toyota with a Getrag 6 speed 'box from a Pontiac G6, adding ITB's, then putting some real Wilwood etc brakes on it. That would be a really fast, unusual and reliable rig.
About that Lotus: not a big Elite fan but a 4x4? Only in Alabama.
curm, it's been done. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nash-Metropolitan-MONSTER-Nash-Metropolitan-Red-Hot-Rod-Street-Rod-/141214928194?forcerrptr=true&hash=item20e110cd42&item=141214928194&pt=US_Cars_Trucks#ht_1011wt_1362
I've seen a complete & running Jalpa for very close to that price. And I've seen a complete non running Jalpa for darn close to $20xx challenge price.
Curmudgeon wrote: About that Lotus: not a big Elite fan but a 4x4? Only in Alabama.
That thing has been on the local Craigslist for the past 6 months or so.
Thinkkker wrote: Hell i see the Jalpa and think SHO engine and 5 speed to fit under the gate. Sounds like that should solve reliability, make it faster, hell turbo it for a way up boost in speed.
Yea, it probably couldn't be heavier than the lambo v8 that was in there.
Buddy of mine is restoring a Jalpa. Sold his 911sc and 914 to buy it. I think he paid about that much for it as a complete car. They are rare cars as the bigger brother Countach got all the attention, but the Jalpa was a better overall car, since you could see out of them and the driving position wouldn't kill you in the process.
In reply to turboswede:
If a Jalpa (on a trailer, no less) will attract that many buxom wenches, it would appear to have some intrinsic value.
Seems like a good candidate for an interesting engine swap, but it's still an exotic, so every single part will be rare and expensive when it breaks.
I'd want Survivors "In the Burning Heart" playing on a constant loop if I owned one. 
If you understand how the Italian supercar industry worked at the time, you'd realize that much of the parts are recycled into or out of lower range Fiat and other cars.
Case in point: Door handles were shared between the X-1/9 and the Countach, etc.
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