VW sickness is real. I had a 91 Cabriolet with a hacked together electrical and I’d buy another in a hearbeat.

That made me laugh out loud. You win. The best thing that could have happened after that would have been finding a cheap corrolla to drive for a couple of trouble-free years until forgetting (like me) and getting another VW

All the stars.

I don’t doubt the SV650 could manage 130mph - Indicated...but still must’ve been wringing it out for a while to get there...

130 on an SV650? Downhill with a tail wind?

This is why my spare tire goes under the car before I do.

It’s so cliche, but I could not resist

Alright, alright, I still laughed.

Hear me out..... this is an actual serious comment.

I worked for a guy who was building a “The Car” clone. I was asked to help bolt in the starter while the car was on jackstands.

When I hooked up the hot leads to the starter, the car started (short in the ignition? Not sure), and the engine loped so friggin hard it…

An avocado-green 1977 Toyota Truck (not the Hi-Lux, no model name, just a third generation Toyota Truck) nearly killed me when I was eight years old. My father was driving across the country with my sister and I, and I begged to lay in the bed of the truck on the trip (it was the ‘70s, this was no big deal on the…

There’s... something... in my eye. Dust. Ya, it’s gotta be dust...

Need to put that on my list of “watch again” movies.

No worries, I got my mustang hearse for those purposes.

If you’ve got to escape the vampires and zombies in style, Eagle’s got you covered.

Happy Halloween! Here’s a famous, fast Jaguar E-Type hearse to contemplate as you plan your night’s house-toilet-papering route and reasonable escape plans.

It’d be like a European saying “I just drove a V8 pickup truck!” (Which, I think, many Europeans would be excited to do).

Thanks Alex, I wish we had more stories like this available, instead of the daily BMW, Hellcat and Mustang stories.

Although not a convertible, I had one for almost 10 years as a DD. Got me by for an $800 beater.