As nice as that car is, its in arizona

Im way up here in WA and certain obligations prevent me from making a multi-day road trip. I was kind of thinking along your lines Igovert, about the black one. I'm not gonna count the black one out just yet though. The guy said he didnt really want to spend the time to go over the car with me until I know for a fact that I'm in a position to buy it so looking more at the black one is out for now... just another iffy factor the black one.
As for maintaining a black car, I'm no push over when it comes to detailing if I do say so myself

but I do agree that black on white's a bitch but black is my favorite color on these cars so I'd go the extra mile (or five). White aint too shabby of an interior color either but I'm not as partial to any interior color.
Recently an ad went up in my area for a '91 vr4, red on black, with only 52k for 11k on her so I'm definitly going check it out and see how flexible they are on the price.