For Sale: Eurostar super train. 186mph top speed. Ran when parked. No low ballers. I know what I got.

Nobody will shed a tear, but I sent my Ford Windstar to the pull-a-part a few weeks ago. I hated doing it, but it had just gotten too much and the straw that broke the camel’s back was a fuel system failure that the mechanic wanted $700 to repair. I could have had it towed back to my home and probably done it for a…

The Ikara reminds me of Jar Jar Binks. Wonder if George Lucas has one?

For borrowers who do trade in their underwater cars, lenders are essentially giving them the money to pay down their loan. The dealer sells the used car, and whatever balance remains on the old loan is folded into the new loan.

I remember these well. I wanted one for awhile, but the EPA mileage was truly horrid. Dozens were purchased and stored away in storage sheds and garages only to be sold a decade later for a song when the hoped-for appreciation in price never materialized. On the heals of the pathetic cars of the 1980s, people could…

A little thing I keep in mind when I hear of things like this. There are no new tricks (or scams), there’s just new people.

The front wheel drive cars were just sad. My high school buddy had a 1970 Monty with the 454 big block and TH400 transmission. It was a light green vinyl over dark green car with slotted Chevy Rally wheels and as wide rubber as he could fit on it. It seemed like a monster in its day. That car ended up on its roof.…

Ditto. You’d still get that price (and maybe more) for it today. I had a LR dealer right down the street from me and there was a pretty little yellow Defender 90 that sat on a pile of rocks for what seems like forever. I knew at the time that the last of those would be cool to have, but I didn’t know they’d become so…

Raph, nobody has used bazookas since about the Korean War. In Vietnam 40mm grenade launchers were known as ‘thumpers’. The ones in Ronin were made by HK. FWIW.

I watched it again just this weekend on TCM. Interestingly enough the guest was William Friedkin who directed “The French Connection”. Friedkin commented on how unreal the car chase in “Bullitt” was since they essentially cleared the streets and drove the cars up and down the San Francisco hills without any perceived…

You should have chosen HJ Halicki’s “Gone in 60 Seconds”. Of course you need to fast forward through the part where the woman is casually reminiscing about the office. That is some boring stuff.

No you’re not about personal freedoms. Your words speak to this fact.

Utah is the middle of buttfuck nowhere.

I always find it interesting how the commenters often seem to fall on the side of the stick-up-their-ass complainers in these types of stories. They are devoid of joy. They are against people having fun or whimsy. It seems most often they fall back on their screed of declining property values. They are nannies,…

You think it’s because 90% of legitimate CL ads are from curbstoners? (Legitimate meaning that the car actually exists for purchase, not a scammer.) Maybe the old owners plate is still on it, or even worse, its a dealer’s plate and they are trying to hide the fact that its a car flip.

Keying a car is a chicken shit move. If you have a problem with someone, have it out face to face. If you have a problem with a stranger’s vehicle, leave a note with your phone number.

While snow tires are the best solution, for folks like me in the South, buying snow tires for the once in every 4-5 years snow event isn’t going to happen. I will say that 20+ years ago when we had a real blizzard down south, I dragged out a set of snow chains that my parents happened to have, and they worked like a…

Pretty good interview. I need to go back and look for the ‘cop’ Beetle episode. One of the coolest roadside attractions I’ve ever seen was a Tennessee State Trooper livery Beetle near Chattanooga Tennessee.

They stick you on a plane back. Its called deportation. A woman I once worked with was a Chinese citizen but had US permanent residency status. The travel agency our company used booked the tickets and didn’t bother to check visa requirements for non-Americans. When she showed up in the Philippines without a visa,…

Go get an Avery label out of the office supply room. Stick it to the back of your passport. Write on the label, “Not Good for Travel After this Date” and put the date that is 6 months before expiration. Then put that date in your calendar as a reminder to renew your passport. Do this for every member of your family…