Can you just own and drive an Avanti or does it require 360-degree lifestyle cosplay?

After 60 years the Avanti is still aesthetically too advanced for most people. I confess to being one of the philistines who find it easier to admire than to actually love, but if you want one, this might be the one you want.

I’m going to say “No Dolphin” as it has flipper writ large upon it.

I live a long way from Florida or other stereotypical retirement valhallas, but these things seem pretty much exclusively nice-weekend toys for the “you’re never too old to have a happy childhood” demographic around here too.

Interesting subhead in that I don’t think of Corvettes as being especially covered in chrome, compared to other cars of the same year. Even in the 50s when chromosaurs ruled the earth, they were relatively tasteful and subdued in this regard. They also dropped what little tailfin they ever had just as that styling fad…

Yeah... maybe if he’d done some things differently to come out with either a correct restoration or a discreetly but usefully upgraded rest0mod. But nice as it is, it’s neither fish nor fowl (and priced more like steak). Most reluctant ND in a while.

At the opposite extreme, I’ve gotten some great deals on appliances over the years on the “We girl-watch while driving forklifts and pass the savings along to you!” aisle.

And for that matter, “yacht” encompasses everything from volcano-lair types to working stiffs who make sacrifices elsewhere in their lives to go sailing on the weekends. In fact, smaller vessels are probably more vulnerable (the orcas seem to be especially fond of orking the rudder).

Seemingly normal and pleasant people “isolated in their own little mobile temples of discontent”, as J.P. Donleavy put it long before we started using the term “road rage,” let their inner monster out of the dungeon pretty easily.

No kidding. The headline led me to expect tips on how to put your rollie-bins out or something. What we got was a mix of little things like that and serious Cannibal Sausage Company matters (“people: they’re the wurst!”). In particular, how is “lighting things on fire and throwing them in the back of the truck” not…

anyone tailgating me will have LEGEND in their face.

If you want a Model S, a quick look around the Internet suggests you can get one more or less like this for a nontrivially lower price even through a dealer, let alone a private party.   No dice, slice, julienne, or any other Veg-a-Matic capabilities.

I fail to understand why someone would want to make their taillights harder to see

It’s also possible (I don’t know him, personally) that he just isn’t a good driver. And/or that he was new to the vehicle and not yet familiar with its controls.

A possible confound, of course, is that being in a car wreck is a much bigger deal, physically, when you’re quite old.  

When I worked at a place well up a steep hillside, I noticed that one of the shuttle-bus drivers (the buses were turbodiesels with automatic transmissions) used the left foot to hold the vehicle if he caught a red light. When the light turned green, he’d feed in a little accelerator and simultaneously ease off the…

Aging is one of the most individual things we do. In appearance, he has the gift of looking a lot younger than he really is (math math math... Ferris Buehler’s Day Off came out when he was 30, a few to several years older than co-stars who played characters ostensibly in his age group), but for some people, 67 is…

The mags are period-appropriate in their own way, like what the young second or third owner of the car might have put on it quite some years ago. I respect this nod to the history of the car even though hubcaps on steelies would be more correct (and agree that they look good).

I have some reservations, such as reason to think it’s for sale by one of the actual or de facto dealers who work the by-owner side of Craigslist (https://losangeles.craigslist.org/search/lgb/cta?purveyor=owner&query=%22562%20eight%22#search=1~gallery~0~0), and the penalty of the automatic transmission. But it holds…

I am guessing that it was still pretty nice and on its first or second owner during the brief, 15-years-ago heyday of Cash for Clunkers, and its gorilla days came a couple of trips through the used-car ads and a lot of miles later.