Bingo.

Right? Like, it needs to be splattered with mud right now and then terrorize the center of town with it, preferably with some well tuned exhaust.

No, $31k then would buy $44k now - that’s aside from what the van itself costs now vs. 2001

Yeah exactly. A $31k minivan in 2001 would be $44k today with inflation.

No. I mean, temporarily to get into the stadium sure, but even that is a big huge no no. There have been a few cases here locally, including a case where police were debating whether you have to wear a helmet if you’re sikh and on a motorcycle, and another case where a Sikh removed his turban in order to use it to…

Fuck that, let the 100 trample each other to death. Natural selection at work.

Crack pipe.

Been set up like this on the wheel for ages now. The selector knob falls to hand easily I find.

My 1994 Z28 Disagrees. Especially when the car is black so the green house doesn’t clash. Just so understated while the firebird was always just a caricature.

If I put “FIRM” in an ad, I usually bump the price 20-25% higher than my actual firm price. Then when someone negotiates money off that they still feel like they are getting a ‘deal’ - and I’ve usually only dropped 10% so I make away with more :)

Watched this happen at a high end car dealership on a $285,000 car. The salesman, clearly smelling a stroker (sexist car industry speak for a time waster) stops dead, silently walks to the front of the car, looks at the little placard stand at the front tire and goes “Well it says here our best price is $285,000 - but…

Indeed. I do not even let people see my car with license plates when I’m selling it. Serious buyers will awkwardly bring it up like “What do we do next?” and time wasters will kick rocks for a minute then shrug and leave

Yep. I had a friend that was in desperate need of a car after an accident. I had just happened upon an as yet unadvertised car waaay under value a week before and was aiming to get it for myself to drive and flip. So I passed on making $2,500, and set him up with it for $800. A week later, he’s below a half tank of…

I’ve sold some cringe worthy cars, like the $650 Ford Explorer I got in lieu if cash for a set of VW alloys, but I guess I’ve just described everything wrong in the craigslist ad so I only had serious people show.

I’ve had sick fantasies about one of these instead of an ATV, and lifted. Same wheelbase and fit in a pickup truck, but street legal and enclosed. And a bed. It’s sort of perfect for camping.

And I’m just sitting here, having owned more than two dozen cars in ten years, sold honestly and with the same mobile number as back then.

Nice article Torch.

Agreed. Its... beautiful.

No he just remembers the wonderful apartheid era.*

Huckleberries were so common growing up they were no longer a favourite. Heh. There’s also currants, and the tiny little extremely sweet blackberries that grow close to the ground, and are extremely delicious. Wild strawberries are tart but I like them, and salmon berries have a few variations, some being quite yellow…