Regarding the fake window: I view it as a vent scoop disguised as a fake window. It’s really a great way connect the window shape to what would otherwise be a tacky tacked on vent. And, more important, it’s not a fake vent.

+1 for retro cloth.  Funky should be a thing again. 

Jason, shouldn’t you just draw up a fresh version of the manumatic.

I’m feeling like no one is giving me much credit for my devotion to my manual washer and dryer. Everybody thinks they can’t live without a 12-speed fully automatic load sensing washer and moisture sensing dryer.

Reminds me of my father-in-law. Quit buying new cars when he couldn’t get crank windows and vinyl seats.  I think his last car was a base ford ranger.

Not really. Just means I have a kid in a wheelchair. Because he’s quadriplegic, it’s hard to transfer him into the Camaro. But that would be his preferred transport. Top down of course.

Well, it is the thing Chrysler did best in that era.  So it seems like an omission in his collection. 

Crossfire and the Dakota. This gives car you can use to fly your freak flag and also a tow car/pick-up-parts car (SUV, actually) to support your also having one project car at any given time.

You just don’t get it. (Consider yourself lucky. Because I do.)

Current family fleet

A parting gift for you: NSU Trapeze by Bertone.

Corvettes!

“And what does your son do?”

The NSU of Corvettes.

Are you getting essential worker pay for all of this? Because you are having to go into your actual office every day.

Was being a little sarcastic. But yes, the manual I4 is 130 lbs lighter then the V6.

SPF 50 and a snug hat! In Texas you can drive with the top down all winter.  But skip the black leather interior. 

So XJs are just a gateway drug?

But we manual folks are cheap and want the lighter, more tossable drivers car because we are purists. You know, driving the slow car fast. Manually.

But we manual folks are cheap and want the lighter, more tossable drivers car because we are purists.  You know, driving the slow car fast.  Manually.