A car like that would be worth about half that brand new out of the factory. Only in the 70s could anyone conceive of something like that. If you're a die-hard 70s nostalgia freak, I'd say nine grand, and that's after having smoked at least two bowls of Mother Nature's finest.

Of course, the best time to have bought a bike was February. That's when you get the big fat discounts. I, for example, bought an $800 Cannondale for about half of that about a decade ago.

I think I'd want a far better return on my money than 54% over 47 years. Even U.S. Savings Bonds earn better than that.

Back in the days before Kennedy was assassinated, a fifty-cent piece was the largest coin struck by the mint (it had Benjamin Franklin's head on it). These actually circulated, and you could find plenty at your friendly neighborhood coin store with a healthy amount of wear and tear. You wouldn't find many vending…

A random mix of pennies in 2011 is likely to contain no more than around 10% or so pre-1982 coins. The Mint hammers out 30 billion of the things a year between the Philadelphia and Denver mints, most of which end up in a jar somewhere. Quarters, on the other hand, tend to circulate over and over and over.

I don't know, seems there are some Brits who enjoy watching amateurs drive a "reasonably priced car" around a racetrack. Sounds like a lot of fun to me.

I once saw a beemer with PWNED on it.

Like the possibility that they were too reliable, that they were counting on ham-fisted mechanics at tire stores breaking the damned things over and over again. Do you know it costs an extra ten bucks PER FUCKING TIRE to switch back and forth between winter and summer tires if your car is TPM equipped?

Here's an idea. You know those TPM thingies that are prone to breakage when you change tires for the winter/spring? How about a rim-mounted air pressure sensor that is attached to the wheel, not the damn tire! Surely if we can send a man to the Moon, make a computer that fits in your pocket with more power than the…

And they should honor and respect that my religion includes deliberately undermining their religion.

And you expect me to believe that just because MLK Jr. was a minister, that means we don't have freedom from religion. Balderdash! Equal rights is not a religious issue, even if certain individuals, who happened to be religious, promoted the idea.

What would I be driving? Same thing I'm driving now. What makes you think any of those rapture-ready retards can afford anything better than a rusty '96 Ford Escort, what with their nine kids and all?

Runs only on super unleaded, right?

Not as bad as the beige one I designed in another Jalopnik thread. That one looked like a lump of oatmeal with wheels.

If money were no object, I'd have the whole car made from polished aluminum. Not one molecule of paint. But I'd want a DB9, because it's too cool even for the Cool Wall.

But the purpose of a car horn is to be heard at 200+ feet away. Besides, last I heard, there were ordinances in many places against blowing one's car horn unnecessarily. Check your state driver's manual.

The standard should have been much more precise. X decibels measured with an approved db meter from either sidewalk. I can imagine a street cop pointing such a device at someone's car being very effective at getting the driver to turn his shit down, no ticket necessary, just like the sight of a cop car in the median…

I think there are only two cars out there that don't come with CD players, and those are the Hyundai Accent (base) and the Nissan Versa (base). Each around ten grand. If you arrive on a day ending in W during a full moon, the dealer might have one of those on the lot, so you can test-drive it and decide, "uh, maybe…

You have Fox News to thank for that. Now every opinion, no matter how nutty, is equally deserving of a hearing. Every issue, no matter how thoroughly settled by logic, such as the fact that the sky is blue, has another side worthy of equally serious consideration, and to believe otherwise makes you a closed-minded…

Yeah, and I can quit smoking any time I please. That is, if I smoked in the first place. I find it not only a very dirty and unhealthy habit, but unnecessarily expensive. I can drink three 1.75 bottles of Maker's Mark a week for what many smokers burn up in smokes.