Agreed. Extremely customized to one person’s taste, which involved a lot of decisions I wouldn’t have made, and now he wants to get out of it what he’s got in it. Good luck with that.

Hopefully one that has hidey-hide upholstery.

saw a lot of dustbusters with that!

I think that was “solar glass” that met DOT standards for letting in visible light but blocked more than half the infrared.

Even in Phoenix, the sun goes down, and you might want to keep driving then.

The ad has been up for 21 days in what’s supposed to still be a seller’s market for used cars. There are a number of possible reasons for that—but “asking ‘way too much” is automatically on the shortlist.

Exactly. Travel almost certainly will involve delay, inconvenience, or something not going my way. My job is to bring some measure of adulting to these situations.

So Lost in Space (1998) was... good enough to miss the cut for this article, or protectively blotted out from your subconscious?

Both right. That car (even more than its DBS predecessor) always looked to me like a late 60s Mustang hand-carved out of a solid ingot of old money.

That A/C had better work, too. Phoenix is under an Excessive Heat Warning and is supposed to hit 108 today, 115 this weekend, yada yada the rest of the summer. And anywhere you go except due north (in the truck lane, given a quarter century old 2.5 dragging that vehicle up the Mogollon Rim) is going to be more of the…

A voice whispering in one ear says it’s a not-bad price in this market for a super clean vehicle whose necessary fix is not too expensive or difficult. Owning it would actually solve some problems for me: basically a supersized Subaru Forester. In the other ear: 2WD, basically a station wagon, and the Marian the…

Not to mention the lingering traces of Very Good Boy from the dog bed in the cargo area.

“Absolutely one of the most original and nicest 510’s you will ever see.”

In that top picture, he actually does resemble Oppenheimer more than a little (in the face, I mean; I don’t know and have never really yearned to find out what either one’s nether regions looked like), and that wasn’t the easiest bit of casting.

And then the city bends around it (but it’s all just projections of his subconscious).

Hmm. They weren’t failures of the orbiter per se, but they were caused by parts of the system without which the orbiter is more of a sitter (it doesn’t even do that in its vertical position without the SRBs).

Yeah, the clickbaity headline isn’t doing accuracy and clarity any favors, here.

Interpolating between the USPS report and the Vice article, they’ve stacked up 452 boxes of cremains since 2015, and with the pandemic uptick have been handling about 150,000 a year recently. With all due sympathy to those who never received the remains of their loved ones, this sounds like an exceedingly rare event.

Depends on what you mean by reliability, of course. The number is true enough in that five operational orbiters were built and three survived. I’d call that attrition rate, though, rather than reliability.

A quick look around shows that for several thousand more I can get any of several Model 3 Long Rangers with an untainted title and quite significantly lower mileage... and those are dealer prices. Rampant ND for a high miler (given the location, doubtless somebody’s freeway commute car) that has a branded title…