The price isn’t out of line for a LS-swapped 944. But this isn’t an LS. It’s an old carbureted SBC, making somewhere between 180 and 300 horses. Sad trombone.

Yeah, *I’m* disappointed that I was not aware of this event. I’ve got a couple of transaxle Porsches that would have wanted to be on it. I’ve done the drive from Oroville to Lassen, and it’s lovely.

I really hope you get some money to burn. That’s an *excellent* use of it.

I’ve had a similar conversation. I truly believe that having a Passat as a daily driver + false modesty about my car collection cost me one of the great romantic connections of my life. It redoubled my Tavarish-like commitment to dubious but luxurious old cars as daily drivers.

That’s either for the nanny or the side chick.

What are the chances that Seinfeld was the winning buyer of this manual?

Or Cadillac is lying. Which is hard to imagine, I know! But may be possible.

Dude, this *is* journalism. Bozi is one of the few auto writers - maybe the only auto writer - who would notice the Brembos and start looking at the parts catalogs to see what Brembo part is fitted.

The 4th gen Legacy seems like an awfully good answer.

At the playa airport, they have to use the same maintenance procedures that the Air Force uses in Afghanistan. Propellers get sanded down to uselessness over the course of the week. They keep trying to tell people not to even try and fly turbine-engine aircraft in, but people do it anyway.

Yup, brand identity crisis in a big way. Really sucks, because the products are better than they’ve been since, literally, 1971.

ATS-V is a *lot* of car for $42k.

Honestly, an Escalade-V would be pretty badass. I probably wouldn’t pony up the ducats they’d want for it, because I’ve got a Yukon Denali and I can bolt a supercharger on it myself thank you very much, but there’s any number of dudes that would.

That is an *excellent* question.

They’re actually not assholes at all, but the rest of your description is spot-on.

It really means that he’s going to be cleaning playa dust out of his engines and propeller bearings from now until he sells that little Cessna, or the engine/prop fails and it crashes. Whichever comes first.

Dali would have put up the wings, without the fuselage in the middle.

I’ve heard firsthand that the Burning Man organization is incandescently angry at Big Imagination. Their camp was known to be a bit half-assed about this whole project - last year’s they only got, like, the nosecone and the flight deck of the 747 out there, because ... reasons? BMOrg was tolerating it because the 747…

Yup, this. It’s to keep people from climbing onto the landing gear.

Damn, you’re right. I was fooled by that picture of the Gremlin. Damn Kinja won’t let me delete. :-(