I had a car totaled out just last year. The deal is that they find comparable cars out in the world that have sold to come up with a comparable price for the damaged car. Then they look at your car and evaluate all the damage on it and come up with an estimate to bring it back to undamaged condition. (This surprised…

Its had 5 owners.  It moved and changed hands several times since the original owner sold with a damaged rear in 2014.  The VINs are the same.

It also had a hard top at one time.

Here’s a thread about this very car on a lotus forum:

RIP.

I seem to recall also that in the 80s Muntz (or at least the company, I don’t know when he died) was in the projection TV business, as well as the car stereo business. I had a Muntz amp in my car being driven by a Alpine radio/cassette tuner.

If it exists, I’d gladly buy it on a Bill Of Sale. My state has stopped issuing(or accepting) titles for vehicles 30 years old and older. You just bring it to the DMV (or a state police office) to verify the VIN, and show the B.O.S. and you get your registration.

Think of air as a liquid like water. Now ,think of what happens if you have a glass of water and you drop a goldfish in it. The goldfish swims in the water, but does it add weight? Yes. Its pretty obvious. We just don’t think of air as having weight, so something “swimming” in the air also must not have weight, but…

My kid told me about this. He chose to harm and kill other people in his suicide.  Fuck him. Have no pity for this piece of shit.

You know where I saw GT-Rs in the first few years they were available? In the garages of homes of people who were not rich. I would go with my daughter to sell Girl Scout cookies in a nearby neighborhood. This is a development that was built in a low-tax area of the county, one with a poor school district that drove…

I’m too old for a Gixxer.

Let’s all run out and buy a Suzuki!  Hey, wait.  I’m in the U.S.  I can’t.

It’s what it is. I have a 2014 Pilot. It’s no Tahoe, but it’s big enough for most folks, and also tows enough for most folks. The fact is that it’s a transverse V6 FWD unibody based vehicle that has been pushed to maximum of what that layout can be. To go bigger, you need to step up to body-on-frame RWD, like the…

Would it have been so hard to just have flip-up Hyundai badge in front (if that is the charging port)? I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt...as I can’t imagine any company doing this unless it was absolutely necessary. But they should at the minimum cut a port on the other side for symmetry’s sake. If it were my…

So much to say about this car.

That is obviously Falkor, the Luck Dragon. What happened to Atreyu?

Much of this can be chalked up to self-serve gasoline. Used to be that the friendly gas station attendant would check your fluid levels, check your tire pressure and give a quick visual inspection of your vehicle while you waited for your tank to fill. This was good for people who were never educated in the proper…

Alicia Silverstone...my jailbait dream girl at the time. She was like 16. :‑O 

Don’t give your kids too much. It makes the shiftless and lazy. There is truly something to the old yarn about “building character’. People who have too much given to them have little character. I’m hoping against hope that my current H.S. Senior child chooses to go to the state university because they will give her a…

A manual is a pain in the ass except when it isn’t.  I’ve essentially driven automatics all my life.  That’s 40 years of driving.  I learned to drive a manual to a degree because I didn’t want to be a complete dolt when offered a MT, but I never bought a stick until this year.  While it is just a lowly 5-spd Corolla,…