@TouchMyMonkey: Oh! You were being sarcastic when you brought in Chris Matthews. Now you make more sense. I thought it was pretty much time to turn off the lights at MSNBC when Chris Matthews admitted he works from Saul Alinsky's book on the air and when he said that Osama makes his leg tingle.

@Motor_Yakuza: I sometimes wonder how people with the power of reason could be Democrats. It seems that I was working from a flawed assumption.

@Motor_Yakuza: He must be really ticked that the Camry was still the best selling car in July, right behind the F150. It is almost like CBS works for the administration...

If this guy really wanted rid of his hoard, auction companies would be bidding favorable terms against one another in order to get a piece of the dumb money chasing Porsche anything. All he'd have to do is turn over his titles, open the doors and figure out the tax repercussions of his sudden windfall.

@Dravs: I look at Bring a Trailer pretty often, and I don't recall the author of that post having anything else to say. He could well be John Small trying to give himself credibility. Pelican parts didn't toss this guy on a whimsy.

@sofst1: He is only 47 years old. Judging by the people with hoards shown on American Pickers, he could be around at least another 47 years without selling anything.

@lilwillie: Reminds me of "Top Secret!" The heros escape after pushing the dead Germans out of their burned Kubelwagen.

I blame Michael Jordan.

@Josh Clontz: I suspect she was already on the phone talking to her daughter when she drove into the river. Obviously, insurance shouldn't have been the first priority in a sinking car. I guess the onslaught of reassuring insurance TV advertising has been too effective, at least in her case.

Is it just me, or does the engine in the Suzuki photo look like a 2-stroke?

@SinisterSaracen: Agreed. It was a time when Porsche still just built the best cars they could engineer, instead of monstrosities that will sell to hideously misguided people. The Cayman is the only product they have now that wouldn't horrify Ferdinand Porsche to see his name on it.

@tonyola: Some versions of that V6 also achieved the highest hp/hour per gram of fuel burned of any engine on the market in various years against much higher tech competition with what should have been more efficient combstion chamber shapes. The proof was in all those traveling salesmen's Electras and LeSabres that…

@tonyola: It is interesting how quickly VW shed their quality reputation with the introduction of water cooled cars. Their first water cooled cars like this Dasher and the Polo in Europe were really Audis. Audis have never been any good. The Dasher may have surprised former VW owners with all of its problems, but it…

This was the car that completely reversed VW's reputation from being considered the epitome of quality and reliability to the VW we know today.

In college I had a Beetle driving friend who made fun of me for paying a factory trained mechanic to do my brake jobs. He did his own, and certainly an automotive know-it-all like me should be capable of doing the same. Needless to say, he was soon passed by his rear wheel and brake drum while attempting to slow for…

@Ben Wojdyla: Thanks Ben. Now people will think that I'm the one that doesn't know the difference between the 24 Hours and the 500.

When exactly did Juan Pablo Montoya win the Daytona 500?

I agree with Hardigree for once! 1988 was BMW's peak. They were firing on all cylinders, usually in sets of 6, but also the wonderful S14's 4 and the first 750iL's 12. It was the years of the Super eta, elipsoid headlights, the last year for real bumpers on E30s, the last year of the mighty E28. E28s could be had with…

I got a CA 'fix it ticket' for driving with a NY license and having a California residence, my summer home at the time. The officer made it sound like I just needed to get a CA license and confirm that I had. The reality came in the mail. The fine and court costs were about $385. The cop won't tell you that on the…

@Serolf Divad: How about a cheap early Boxster? Maybe I should see if Jim Glickenhaus still posts in the Atlas nostalgia forum. I could suggest it for when he is done with the P4 competition car.