@GTRbrian: Almost? Considering the blown engine, I dunno... ;)

I used to drive a '71 Datsun pickup. At 6'2", my knees would very nearly touch the bottom of the dashboard. I think I would've killed for even the dinky "King Cab" option this thing was sporting.

Just one more reason to prefer the older BMW's over the new(er) models. Thank God my e32 only has 177k on it; should last another 20-some years or so...

That's a close one. I picked Nice Price because it looks decent in the photos, but to garner a price like that an e28 would need some serious maintenance records and/or some nicely done mods. I've seen other cars of the same model selling for much less than $8k. It would be worth checking out, but I'd be checking it…

@I. Heart. Cars.: You must be new here...

"He drives an El-Frickin'-Camino! That's like the Cadillac of cars!"

How about a non-movie car in a non-movie? I'm thinking of Patrick Jane's Citroen in The Mentalist.

Who's face is that anyway? I've always wondered...

@Drujon: You did it wrong; you're supposed to bounce when you say Allante!

The difference is, when is the last time you saw a 1988 Hyundai Excel on the street in 2010? I drive a 1988 BMW daily, and see others of the same vintage daily.

Stop driving and return it now? How? Drive it?

Must be a corporate consultant following the style of Dogbert. Flaunts to his clients that he's overpaid while handing them his invoice. Wagging his tail too.

@BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ: Awesome. Exactly what I thought upon seeing that overhead shot.

The scene from iRobot (bad movie, btw) just came to mind, where Will Smith gets spanked for driving manually, with the autopilot off... That's what we're coming to. Just give the nannies some time.

Seeing that e9 prepped for LeMons made me cry just a little. You were right to slap them with penalty laps, but a slap for sending something like that into the jaws of LeMons deserved a slap with a good-sized dead carp too. Heck, a rust-free door from an e9 is worth well more than $500; if the shell from that thing…

@thunder; now eta-powered: For those who haven't kept up on their My Name Is Earl trailer-trash trivia, that line was uttered by Earl hisself when he first laid eyes on his El Camino.

Wondering how he's gonna top the last stunt...

Carburetors, manual chokes, grease zerks, dimmer switch operated by the left foot, radio presets that go 'thunk' when you press them, TVW, strong-arm power steering... Those are a few of the things I miss about old iron. And sometimes don't miss at all.

@MinkelR: Having some knowledge of how to correct the slide is usually a prerequisite for that. Driver's Ed does a pretty lame job of preparing drivers for stuff like this.

I used to carry a pile of keys on my keychain until the ignition switch on my e28 quit working. Someone said that the keychain may have been part of the problem, so I trimmed things back pretty drastically; now I have the key for each car on a ring by itself or with its remote fob, and remove it from a larger snapring…