When I was doing concert events we did a small gig at a hotel ballroom and the entire carpet was trashed from various cigarette burns (yes, this was a while back) and we ended up paying for the whole thing to be replaced. It was remarkably inexpensive, less than what a living room carpet install cost. I was under the…

Where is this? I would guess Portland, OR!

You're 100% right, most people in the general population have no idea that dealers are wholly independent from the makers of the cars they sell (by law in fact). I see it time and again on forums where people complain that they need the "Headquarters for XYZ Automobile Co." to tell them how upset they are with their…

Excellent advice about not being a dick as a customer. We recently bought a CPO car and the dealer was such a pain to deal with (tho our salesman was actually great to work with) but we kept level heads, held our tongues and worked out a deal we could very easily live with. I'd rather save a few thousand dollars via…

Technically Zagato designed that car so they do it better than either RR or Bentley... and always have. :)

"Looks like an XJS from the side"

There's a whole group of guys who work up on Mt. Hood here in Oregon who run old Diesel Benzes. I had the pleasure to meet one of them at my local indie garage and we had a blast just chatting about cars (and food, this is Oregon). Mine is a gas car so I don't qualify but I do love any old Benz.

Same here, I started off with vintage 50's American cars with fins, movd to British saloon cars, then sporty sedans and a Porsche 944, a further move into German territory landed me first a modern Mercedes and now a 50-year "Oldtimer" Benz is my daily driver. After all that I guess I'll just say the "best gearheads"…

Oh man, I wish you didn't keep this a secret for so long because I just gave away a whole bag of window switches for these cars after holding on to them since about 1993.