C3 Corvette. I was 12 years old when they came out in late summer 1967. About a year after that I decided, “Some day I’m going to own a Corvette.” It only took another 44 years until I bought my minty Z06 in 2012, with only 18K miles on it. It’s up to 28K miles now and I intend to keep it until I can’t drive it any…

But has your Z06 achieved maximum environmental impact?

What’s the thing that you suspect people would absolutely give you tons of shit for? That people would argue with?

My Vette has no cats.

My wheel will make my hands cramp on road trips because its so thick.

All of your published rental cost numbers are so f-ing unbelievably huge. I’m glad that my wife and I are both retired and our nearest family visit is less than a 200 mile round trip for our Honda Odyssey, where we have not been since before March 2020. We’re both vaccinated and are looking forward to maybe August…

I don’t see what the big deal is. My first cars built in the 1960s typically had hard plastic steering wheels which were thin compared to later 20th century designs. It was common practice back then to lace on an aftermarket steering wheel cover to give you a better, slightly flexible and spongy grip. Of all…

How do you ‘need’ a third car?

By “incredible” climate control, do you mean the fact that apparently you can only adjust fan speed and venting on the touch screen?

Compared to the post-2013-ish “Spindle” or “Predator mouth/fishmouth” Lexus grille design, this is an exercise in design restraint.

...that second “bedroom” is really a luggage locker that the previous owner converted...

I forgot about the Nomad, but you have to admit the technology was primitive and the performance way substandard to cars of the 21st Century. I still consider the ‘53 Studebaker coupes to be way ahead of their time WRT styling.

Here’s another vote for “nontraditional” gender roles. When I met my then-girlfriend now-wife, she was living at home and her mom did all the cooking. I learned to cook from my mom starting about age 15, so for many years I did all the food shopping and almost all of the cooking. After she went vegetarian in…

I’d be pretty thoroughly screwed. It would be a ‘55 Bel Air with the new 265-CI Chevy V-8 and a three on the tree stick shift. Single master cylinder four wheel drum brakes, lousy handling with lousy bias ply tires, frequent maintenance, etc. A ‘55 Corvette would have the same issues.

...almost everything in that building had a Mitsubishi logo on it, from the elevator to the computers and printers to the microwave in the kitchen.

Funny you should bring that up; in 1986 we bought a 26" direct view CRT Mitsubishi television. It was pretty much SOTA back then, and my WW2-era veteran father was so impressed he bought a Mitsubishi TV a few years later.

I saw the lead photo and the asking price, and thought “Take my money!” Then I kept on reading, and looked over the pictures. The oxidized underhood aluminum suggests this was assembled at least 20 years ago. The mediocre at best engine/transmission is a good foot too far forward. It just looks badly built and poorly…

they should have moved the engine/transmission back about 6 12 inches

The first time I changed the oil myself in one of my old cars, the ShittyLube tech had put the filter on so tight that I couldn’t move it with a filter wrench and an extension.

Great idea either Matrix or Vibe, but in the snowy parts of the country these will have been more prone to rust, and they are all old enough that many/most examples will also be 150K-ish plus in miles.