As a Boomer who has owned a few mid-engined and rear-engined cars, I’d buy it.

They’ll all go to the boneyard to be parted out; GM or FIAT will not want them getting into customer hands. They did that when some Pontiac GTOs delivered from Australia that were involved in a similar train accident; I think it was something like 30-35 2005 GTOs were destroyed and sent to the boneyard.

That brought back some memories; I bought a new 1978 Accord LX when I graduated from college. It was maroon with the maroon interior. It holds the dubious distinction of being the only car I’ve ever owned to strand me not once but twice due to the engine eating the valves (look up the Honda oil contamination issue for…

My wife had a base 2002 Alero sedan (so base it had crank windows). She drove it for 15 years and 180,000 miles only replacing tires, brakes, 1 battery and tie rod ends. Oh and I replaced the ballast resistor when the fan controls stopped working (a common problem IIRC). My daughter drove it for one summer until the…

Yep, because 40 years ago I had a car that stranded me twice (the only car that’s ever stranded me) - a ‘78 Honda Accord I bought new. (To their credit Honda replaced the engine twice, once out of warranty. It was an oil contamination issue.)

Thank goodness HOAs are not that common in our state.

A poo emoji on an Austin Allegro. That is the correct way to use an emoji.

My favorite FC was the one at the Sun Valley (Idaho) resort that used to resurface the ice on the outdoor rink. The rear of the truck was set up like a Zamboni unit. This was in the ‘80s so I doubt they still have them.

Sorry I was talking about the original Land Rovers with the 2L petrol or 2.25L petrol or diesel iron lumps. I believe head gasket problems were more of a problem on Discovery engines.

That’s why I’d prefer not to own anything newer than a Series III Landy.

The Cape Henlopen, one of the ferries that go from New London, CT to Orient Point, NY was originally the USS Buncombe County, LST 510, which participated in D-Day. There’s a plaque on one of the decks listing LST 510 and its battle star from that day.

USS Constitution is still part of the US Navy and is crewed by active duty personnel. 

Thanks I couldn’t remember. 

One of the books I read on Ford mentioned how the “E-car” division was supposed to be radically different and new platform, but the costs involved made them scale back to use the existing Mercury and Ford platforms. I think that there were two things that killed them; first, the price/performance of the Edsel slotted…

It was called “Teletouch” and I think only lasted two model years. Besides the ergonomic issues, the system was not very well executed, and had a lot of solenoid problems. One of my friends growing up had an Edsel wagon with this transmission, and IIRC it was in the shop a lot for transmission problems. The flying…

The Aerostar was the company vehicle that many of the service techs got when I was working in HP sales in the early 90s; as I recall the techs loved them.

It would never make it down a lot of trails in northern New England - it’s way too large.

It should have been an Austin Allegro.

Our old town was Boscawen, which has no wealthy vacationers and no post office. :/ (The mail is delivered by the Concord PO.) However for a town with one large plow truck and one pickup plow truck, they did a damn good job of clearing the roads — better than a lot of the larger towns/cities.

We used to have to sometimes push the mail truck when it would get stuck on our old street during the winter (we live in NH.) It wasn’t that there was a lot of snow (the street was plowed and sanded) but they had the worst/bald tires on those vehicles. Our current rural carrier has her own RHD Jeep Wrangler Unlimited,…