Amen. The Chaparral 2J is several kinds of awesome incarnate.

The cyclist is the luckiest person I know of in a similar situation. An acquaintance had a similar experience, but he was sadly killed.

Tell that to any buyer of a 250P who had to sell it in the 70's.

Cars are not an investment. Full stop. They are a cost.

Nice Price. I always thought Packards were the coolest American cars evah.

Not exactly unlicensed. IIRC the Attlee cabinet gave some engines and blueprints for free to the Soviets. Too dumb to be reelected.

Too "jelly bean" for my taste. The E38 is prettier for my taste. The best Jaguar BMW ever made.

If it was modern polycarbonate, just a couple months in the sun and you get the same effect.

The Tatra T603 from A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Amen. Also a Volga taxi, IIRC.

And the E38. The prettiest BMW ever.

You can always scratch the transparent body panels and call it "patina" too.

Yes. Too much racecar and too little sleep.

Well, the mechanical failure was not due to any ground crew or pilot negligence, but to other unpredictable causes. As far as the airline personnel was concerned, they did everything right.

Damn Nibbles! It's the cup holder.

This one.

In our case it was the shared Spanish Air Army/USAF base at Morón de la Frontera, and the problem was the dust and gravel from a nearby construction site (IIRC they were tearing down barracks and building newer ones). The test pilots and engineers were not amused.

Aussieme.

I'd be more specific: if you design a car from the ground up to be a roadster, you don't sacrifice rigidity. If you design a coupé and then remove the top, you do sacrifice rigidity and performance.

Hey, look at what it is: not just a Porsche, but a classic Porsche, and one of the most iconic.