Listen to experts yourself and stop spreading panic.

And you’re missing my point. This is not the world-ending pandemic that (some of) the public is acting like it is.

Yes, the flu is a stable event, because it’s been happening for hundreds of years. This will be too, after a couple years. There wasn’t a vaccine for the flu until recently, we still didn’t treat it as a pandemic. (Edit: looked it up, while flu vaccines have existed since the 40s, they weren’t universally recommended…

The flu kills thousands every year and we don’t shut down the country for that.

There’s a big price difference between a 987.1 and 987.2. IMS is a big part of it (and if you have a five speed you probably have the easily fixable type), but there are a collection of minor differences too.

I’m just hoping the market slows enough for a 987.2 to fall into my price range in the next couple months...

RX-8s do the same thing for warm-up.  Their redline is 6k instead of 9k until the engine is up to temperature.

A lot of new cars come with TERRIBLE tires.

There’s a fine line between preventing this sort of thing on a daily driven work truck and impounding somebody’s fifty year old project car because replacement parts for the emissions equipment it was originally sold with do not exist, didn’t function in the first place, actively destroy the engine, or all of the…

GTA syndrome, once you’re in a car, you see more of them. That works in reality, right?

How long before that engine blows up though?

Think of it this way:  Sell your house, move somewhere cheaper, and you have enough for two of these and a house with a garage that’ll hold them both.

I didn’t mean literally...

Given the trend of modern car design, it wouldn’t entirely surprise me if this is what it’ll really look like, EXCEPT that it’s a 2/3 scale model and the real hood line will be five feet off the ground.

Exactly.  Just let it run it’s course, it’s a slightly worse strain of the flu.  We’ll be fine.

I guess my point was that if the donor car was cheaper and the engine came from Cadillac, they could be priced reasonably and sell a lot more of them.

An engine that doesn’t require buying a $100k donor car could help save the ‘new’ Stratos though.

“In the name of” are the key words.

That’s not entirely wrong. People with kids are naturally biased towards being overprotective, consciously or not. Emotion does not lead to good decisions.

Admittedly, only as of about six months ago. The last car they sold here before that was more than a decade ago.