I’m extraordinarily concerned with what Biden and Harris are going to do. If they accomplish everything laid out on their campaign page, they will gut the firearms industry and the shooting sports.

Sometimes the obvious answer is the best. 1955 Chevy Bel Air two-door with the then-new 265 cubic inch V8 and a three speed stick.

In all, I’d say even $10,000 per year is a low ball estimate. You might be able to do it for that much if you are both frugal and fortunate about the expenses that are out of your control. If you have a special needs kid and/or live somewhere that doesn’t provide a lot of public services for them, you could find…

If Sen. Harris had been on-board, the bus would have been escorted by some number of black Suburbans with armed Secret Service agents on board. The Y’all Qaeda cowards would not have had the guts to swarm the bus. Typical bully mentality, look for someone perceived as weak and vulnerable. Fuck those MAGA scumbags.

Eh, my Mom’s last new car was a 2006 Cadillac CTS. She voluntarily gave up driving when she knew her mental facilities were declining ca. 2015. My nephew started driving it when it had maybe 20K miles on it. He’s mechanically illiterate and did not appreciate the gift he was given. He’d rather drive it into the ground…

...he paid it off and kept it for a few years even - imagine the fiscal responsibility!

...what he deemed a reasonable payment size at the time of purchase is ludacris.

1) Even before I retired I was only putting 6500 miles/year on my DD ‘13 Chevy Sonic. Now I’ve had it for eight years and it just turned over 46K. Keep the HHR, it will be fine. Just keep up with periodic maintenance.

In another word, scientist do not look at facts. They go by their faith.

“A pandemic may or may not be occurring.” These clowns are in positions of power, having been elected by willfully ignorant people. Our former Republic is going down hard, just like all the previous empires of human civilization. An utterly centrist President Biden is only going to slow the decay.

In the debate between Elon Muak and billionaire Jack Ma, the only thing they both agree on were we are in far more danger of population collapse than over population.

It seems like you declare the discovery of a “holy grail” Jeep product and then a year or two later, another one. Maybe Monty Python was wrong and there’s more than one Grail, but I sure would enjoy some time at the Castle Anthrax.

I think a more realistic out-of-pocket average would be $30k/kid for extra activities, room, board, travel and supplemental education, assuming employer and state provided healthcare and a 99%er lifestyle.

Your name checks out, but I agree with your observations. Last time I heard, it was a cool $250K average to raise a child in the USA, not including college. It’s even cheaper to remain child-free, like my wife and I did.

My mom was a wonderful cook and made deviled eggs with Coleman’s. Therefore so do I, but that’s the only thing I use it for and that stuff must be at least 20 years old. Still looks/smells OK.

I was the fourth owner of a ‘79 Camaro Berlinetta. It was a 350-4bbl with a Posi rear end. I personally knew the 2nd and 3rd owners, and the 2nd had  swapped out the original Saginaw 4-speed with a 10-ish year older Muncie and Hurst shifter. It was a wonderful DD from about 1994 to 2004, until the body was so…

Our first van was a ‘78 Dodge ¾ ton extended body, purchased in 1991 from a co-worker. It was original outfitted and sold in ‘78 as a camper conversion van. This was a good deal from someone I knew, but I really wanted a cargo van. I quickly removed things like a table screwed into the floorpan, and later other…

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” ― Philip K. Dick

As a monolingual lifelong USA resident, I don’t know enough about British English to make a call on this question. We visited the UK in 2007 and no joke, it seemed like I could only understand about 1/2 of what the Brits were saying.

I’ve never been to either place, but to me mentally, Bridgeport Connecticut is like Benton Harbor Michigan in that they were formally known by many as home of the well known brands Bridgeport Machines and Heathkit, respectively. Both cities are generally considered to have declined from their better days, just like…