This, exactly. In my city house prices have more than doubled in the last 8 years while the median wage in the city hasn’t moved at all. My dad’s house which cost $240,000 in 2001, and was worth about $320,000 in 2012, is now worth almost $800,000. This is in a city where the median wage is only about $40,000 a year. I…

My car would be so easy to hotwire you could probably smack the car a few times and it’d hotwire itself, but I still don’t lock it because I figure the odds of a moron kid who breaks into cars knowing how to drive a manual three-on-the-tree to be essentially zilch. The flashlight they steal out of my glove box every 6…

It looks like a fat Wrangler to me. Massive off roaders are only capable if you’re driving with no obstacles. As soon as you have to maneuver between things the negatives of them being fat monsters becomes apparent.

My dad owns a 97 4Runner that is a pretty similar story. It only started requiring any real mechanical work after 200k miles, even then it was just things like suspension work. The car has literally never broken down, and it has had a lot of off-roading mixed in too because we live in Colorado.

I kinda like this car in its minty-fresh original state though. I’d imagine there’s some sort of auxiliary port on the existing head unit for a CD changer or something similar, and you could just plug a bluetooth receiver into that. It would be annoying to get to, but less annoying than replacing the whole radio.

In my day-to-day life I’m not a musclecar guy. I don’t care about going fast really, I’m not one for showing off. But in a dumb primal way there’s just something so cool about big mid 60s cars with big engines.

Yeah I actually thought the old grille was pretty ugly, I really like this redesign and the new colors they’ve made available.

How are there so many people here who believe that cars were unable to stop until 17 inch wheels were invented?

The stopping power of the brakes themselves only matters up to the point at which the tires can’t grip anymore. Past that point having larger brakes just gives them more ability to do repeated high speed stops without overheating.

I have one nit-picky thing to say regarding this sentence: “Screens are also less likely to break than mechanically moving gauges”

I think you’re trying to defend touch screens in cars, and I’m just here to say that no, they’re not good. Touch screens can’t be operated by feel, which requires the driver to look away while driving, and the operating systems cars use are often clunky and difficult to use. It’s become harder to use a car’s radio…

I got an estimate from the closest chromer to me, in Utah, and it was $1200. My car needs $1200 worth of work, but the bumper is not what all of that should be spent on.

Thanks to that chart I’ve now realized my memories of Texaco gas stations are over 20 years old.

People like you are the ones who don’t bus their own tables in restaurants and coffee shops and say “I’m creating employment.” No, you’re just making the job of some poor minimum wage sap harder when they have to also pick up your shit on top of their regular responsibilities.

When I say 100% original I mean including paint, and rust if any. I live out west so it’s not that unusual to find a car like that.

You may like the 1956 Lincoln Continentals they were heavily inspired by:

I’ve never been anywhere near China, but there were a lot of Chinese students at my college. None of them ever brought up feeling oppressed, but it did come up once in conversation with one girl that she was cautious about what she searched for online in the U.S. because she didn’t know what her government could see…

This opens a pandora’s box of complaints I have about the modern world. Like the obsession with building houses and buildings that are entirely glass to let as much sunlight energy in, and thus require much more cooling than if we just used normal sized windows.

My Falcon has been rear ended three times while I’ve owned it. I take pride in it, but it’s also so far from being an original intact car that it isn’t the absolute end of the world, because it’s already well past the point of “patina” into the land of “should be a parts car.” When I’m drooling over something like a…

I mean that was kinda dickish for whoever had to take car of your disposed-of-and-leaking wreck of a vehicle abandoned on their property.