Agreed, but we’re never going to be quite without enemies, loons, and criminals, not to mention otherwise innocuous people with non science informed notions of what’s okay to bring on a plane (is there an airport whose display of confiscated stuff doesn’t include half a can of stove fuel left over from somebody’s…

I’ve always wanted one, but back when good examples were still half reasonably priced, I was married to someone who thought they were hideous... 

Has anybody here ever done something stoopid when they shoulda known better, even at work?

One of the first things I’d buy* would be the services of a fire protection engineer and contractor could do application-specific things with a best-practices budget. Too many car collections have been lost to fire over the years, and it would be a heartbreaker under any circumstances, but all the more so if I’d…

I wouldn’t drop that kind of coin on a quarter-century-old Wrangler from upstate New York even if it hadn’t been used as a plow truck.

True, although those five years (1971-76) ended as the malaise era was getting started in earnest. Our hero drove Mark IV’s.  His first few cars wouldn’t even have had catalytic converters, and the first one or two were from the high compression days.  The bloom was just a bit more off the rose by ‘79 (and I’m not…

Nowadays you actually can be too sentimental. For example, it could lead you to buy a baby-blue Continental that turns out to be in merely collector-adjacent condition at a collector price. Hagerty thinks an excellent one (and they’re hard graders; their tl;dr explainer is “could win regional shows”) is worth 23k.…

...and this happened at Memphis, downstream of both the Missouri and the Ohio.

Different horses for different courses. This one was an entry-luxury car that they brought in to support the Q45, with a side order of filling what was they a considerable convertible gap. It isn’t nearly as much fun to hustle around the mountain roads, but carrying three passengers in the Miata invites police…

The ad is still up for the Viper that managed a slight but definite thumbs-up on Nice Price or No Dice a few days ago...

Part of it is nomenclature. Interesting how the ratings of what we still call “half-ton” pickups have gotten into what used to be three-quarter-ton or even one-ton territory, isn’t it?

Rated to tow, not to stop.

Yet still another aspect: the US military (and by now probably most global allies and rivals) pretty much runs on diesel or something (e.g., jet fuel) that competes pretty directly with diesel for the same cut of petroleum.

‘70 Barracuda convertible with a SLANT 6.

“...pick up street tacos...”; not going to check urban dictionary.

Yeah — there are people who go for this look, but to me, figure a fair market price and deduct the cost of rebuilding the suspension to factory spec. (Which, after all these years, it could probably use anyway.)

I’m not worried about the front end collision, I mean, how fast can it get going?

A friend who has done criminology research maintains that for many people it’s a lifestyle as well as an occupation, to the point where they’d rather make one crooked dollar than two honest ones.

Republicans get control and they’re going to push through every voter suppression law {...} , every congressional district reconfiguration...

Comparing the hoodline to the bottom of the moose fuselage is especially instructive. You take those long spindly legs out from under it and the massive moose fuselage comes into the cabin.