What a thing to find with a big green bow on top if your goal is show’n’shines, maybe even a real concours, and the occasional Sunday morning outing or parade. For actually using in modern times, I’d have gone restomod power train and running gear and a plausible shade of incorrect Imron. But it would be completely…

Light-duty diesels (<14,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating) of model year 1997 and older don’t have to undergo smog check in California, so there’s that. (https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-registration/smog-inspections/)

Diesel is $5.50 in the LA area, which I think is about a buck and a half higher than diesel at your end of the 10, and a dollar more than gasoline locally. (https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/)

This. “Massive and passive” is a good team when it comes to Plan B undercar support.

This is perilously close to having me price out a ticket to LAX and one of the easiest NP votes of the year.

If you want a “ute,” you could get almost three of yesterday’s Baja for the asking price of this... and those have a rear seat.

As I parse the ad, the head gaskets were replaced at 150k (fairly typical for when the turkey timer pops out) and the timing belt and water pump would have been sensible to do at the same time. The car is now at 185k.

Jaunty little thing, but my impression from the scant but existent comps available online is that it’s quite a bit overpriced for its mileage. As people point out here from time to time, “rare” and “valuable” are not synonyms.

As someone here (maybe krhodes1?) put it the last time the subject came up, seat belts not only keep you from being ejected, but also help you survive “the collision inside the car.”

For a Laser in that trim (FWD and no turbo) and that many miles, the asking price is a little too far into the gain medium, but compared to what most of the surviving ones look like these days, the presentation is enough to cause stimulated emission. Even with the vastly incongruous (and hopefully removeable)…

Hagerty suggests that the ask is about spot-on for that condition, a car that is quite capable of taking home a trophy at a regional show, so if it’s as good to a knowledgeable eye in person as it seems here, NP.

Hannah Payne “acted like a cop”

I’d watch Eddie Murphy do a dramatic reading of the Yellow Pages, but... after 40 years, shouldn’t Axel Foley be watching from either a window office high in police headquarters or a Winnebago as his son chases crooks?

Oh, it was well done from every standpoint, but sometimes I couldn’t help realizing that it’s a cringe comedy about horrible people who’d raised complicatedly broken now-adult children.

how revolutionary Homicide: Life on the Streets was in its time

Yeah, they cancelled it after the end of season two (the show appeared across three calendar years but is considered to have had two seasons), at a point where it had gotten exceptionally good and all three major characters were at crucial junctures in their lives. No attempt at bringing anything to a conclusion at…

I forget why (if indeed I ever properly knew), but Hill Street Blues took a very long time to be released for home video or reruns or anything like that — something like 20 years. I’m sure there dozens of potential roadblocks, most in the complex realm of entertainment-industry law, for any particular show (and recall…

The ad suggests that he did this as a money input for some kind of animal rescue and training center, and he’s now out of Rovers and shutting down the rescue part to focus on the training part.

Was the Cybertruck driver off the trail “harvesting” a Christmas tree?

This. It’s rather counterintuitive, but chunky mud treads look as though they ought to do great in snow, and generally aren’t. (Tread design as well as compound plays into it.).