YOU’VE either got a collector’s mentality or you haven’t.

Take eBay vendor ‘samsuam’ as an example. He was probably one of those kids who received Star Wars figures for Christmas and then refused to take them off their card backing, preferring instead to build a dehumidified vault for them in order to onsell at a huge markup twenty years later.

Maybe he planned to put his kids through college on the back of a vinyl-cape Jawa sale. That’s just supposition. What we do know is that he’s selling the vehicular equivalent; a 2006 Mitsubishi Evo IX MR with just nine miles on the clock.

Back then, Mitsubishi would have charged $37,094 plus Californian taxes for the Evo IX MR. So at its current bid, those couple of decades have seen this Evo steadily earn around $485 per month, every month for the last 11 years.

That’s around 4000 southern Californian mornings – where the sun rises over empty roads twisting into the desert – that its owner has been steadfastly resisting the urge to take it for a spin. Boggles the mind, doesn’t it?

Last year somebody in the UK sold a carded vinyl-cape Jawa for A$35,000, though it wasn’t reported what they had in their garage.

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Check out the eBay listing here.