Smells like money flushed down the toilet.

I don't get it either. I buy my cars cash because I hate payments, so I've got a 10 year old van and a 42 year old car. I've looked into leases before, but at that point we were putting 20 miles a year on our cars.

Reckon I'm a creep then.

We have bumper height laws in TN, but at least here in Memphis I have never seen it enforced. I had lowered Hondas that were under the minimum height and passed inspection every year. Now we don't even have inspections any more.

He's gotten a lot better the last couple years. He usually goes with me to our weekly cruise so I've thankfully been able to teach him quite a bit. Very thankfully, because I was about to kill him.

At least I can see that. My Dart's been called a Mustang, Camaro, and even Rambler. And the 73 Satellite Sebring I had when I was 18 was called a Torino a few times.

My 73 Plymouth Satellite Sebring got called a Ford Torino which infuriated 18 year old me. HOW DARE YOU THINK IT'S A FORD?!?

I have a friend that thought every old car was a Bel Air.

Hey-o!

I don't know how it is on that side of the pond, but the insurance on my old car is through Haggerty and they let you choose the mileage and value. I've got 3000 miles, $13000, and the highest priced roadside assistance program (which is $150 by itself) for around $400 a year.

No, David Letterman, I won't buy your car so you can get more meth.

He said menu.

I'm 29 so my youngest girl cousin is 40, the oldest is 52, and they all know at least the basics of cars. Just as it's wrong to say nobody works on cars now it's wrong to say no girls were taught how to back in the day.

Amongst my brother, our 1 boy cousin, and our 8 girl cousins, the girls were expected to know just as much about cars as the boys. Only my brother doesn't know how to wrench, but he's never even had a learner's permit (he's 34).

I fully agree with your philosophical point.

So am I like ultra manly by NPR's standards because I work on cars with my 5 year old daughter and also tell her I love her?

As another former trucker, I second that.

I have the same argument about Mazda, but since they're nowhere near as common as Fords are around my area you don't notice it as much.

It's just slight variations of the same theme. I mean it's a nice enough theme, but the whole line just kinda blends together to me.

Just the other day I was explaining to a friend why his 2003 T&C sucks -because Daimler bled Chrysler's money dry and then Cerebrus did absolutely nothing to revive the brand. So even as big of a Mopar guy as I am, pretty much everything from 98-10 I will not buy. I have an 04 Mercury van next to my 72 Dart.