My AE86 is stock-engined, so it still has Toyota reliability. However, she refuses to ride in it because things like “It has no AC” and “it sounds like it’s breaking when going over speedbumps” “Weird cosplay kids come up and start asking way too many questions.”

Yet another vaguely related, not so funny, lazily thought out photo comment from skay!

That’s nuth’n. I had already been married when my wife suggested I actually buy the old Fox mustang I wanted....and not sell the motorcycle to to do it. That’s true love.

But how long can you sustain parking a block away and Ubering everywhere with your fiancee because your car has been “in the shop” for the past year? Sooner or later they’ll get suspicious...

I believe that’s called finding “the one.” I got engaged and married while owning an S2000. A year in and no plans to sell it.

Someone should tell this guy that selfie stick doesn’t actually mean a stick. Looks like he’s using a broom handle or something

Especially while driving on the wrong side of the road, with no steering wheel!

Selfie while driving could also kill you.

It’s those Volvo headrests, the horizontal stripes make you look fatter.

I own an AE86 and I’m engaged.

Everytime I peruse FB and/or Linkedin and find someone I know with a driver’s seat selfie as a profile pic, I’m never surprised that THIS PERSON have a driver’s seat selfie as a profile pic.

lol

Yes, my driver’s seat selfie is killing my love life. And every other picture of me. And my appearance. And also my personality.

Congratulations, Mr. Mixeddrinks, on COTD! I would like to gift you with a Jeep which this lovely lady will deliver as soon as David Tracy’s friends help get her out of the mud.

I agree.

In every David Tracy story, the true hero is not the jeep or him. It is the people he surrounds himself with. Let it be his co-workers, his friends, his neighbors, his landlords, people he meet on the highway, on craiglist, at the auto parts store. I mean when was the last time he took someone on a trip and the time…

“I made a terrible decision”

Hmmm... Let me run that through the Jalopnik article accuracy verification system.

Jeep in article name.

Author David Tracy.

Yep, it checks out.

Look at the bright side. You got a bang up article out of it. Wish I could make money writing about the stupid things I have done and still do.

I am both impressed by your ability to find friends willing to go the distance with you for these rusty heaps, and depressed by their unwillingness to let you make the safe choice. You’re absolutely right: control over your own vehicle is hard enough without worrying about the other idiots who have demonstrated their…

I guess he didn’t want to follow The Stig as the next driver launched into space at the wheel of a Tesla...