I paid $2000 for mine about 8 years ago (1969, 2000 with SUs, not clean by any stretch of the imagination). I’m hopeful that I’ll have it on the road this year. Once I finish up the body work it *should* go back together pretty quick.

My mother-in-law is #1, but she doesn’t hold back at just hissing and gasping, she’s full on “LOOK OUT!” She does this at least once per car trip.

People who don’t understand multiple turn lanes. Most of the ways I can go to work have an intersection with multiple turn lanes. People seem to mostly get the double left turn lane thing. The inner lane has to turn into the inner lane on the cross street but the outer lane can do any lane other than the inner one…

I once drove behind a minivan that somehow managed to have the brake lights reversed. They’d be driving along just fine, their brake lights would go out and the nose would dive. Took me a couple minutes to realize what was going on... The only thing I can think of is a hacked in brake switch of the wrong type and…

It’s actually a 95 year term for older works, so works from 1923 are protected till the end of 2018, i.e. 95 years. As for why... because congress said so:

Frankly at some point it becomes difficult to determine who rightfully owns a work. Look at all the kerfuffle around the happy birthday song. There were many arguments in court to determine which person even wrote the song...

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by gross incompetence...

Yeah, you can probably generalize this to “<Car company> limited the development of <sporty but mid-range car> to avoid cannibalizing the sales of <company’s halo car>“. 

There were theories during the late 80's that GM was hamstringing the Fiero development to prevent cannibalizing Corvette sales. They could have given them a turbo Quad-4 and the 3800SC for the ‘90 Fiero but it didn’t end up happening and instead the model was cancelled. If you consider that it would have been going…

Two things needed to happen to stop hijackings of airplanes:

The vin plates on all of those are probably worth it for someone with a full sheetmetal shop ;)

Mid-engine Hemi FTW!

This depends a lot on which state you’re buying in. In California they roll out an inconveniently long scroll of paper that has all of the charges, including the monthly and the total over the life of the loan. There’s about 20 numbers on it because there are so many things that go into the cost of a car but it does…

My dad had a couple of these for his work vehicle when I was growing up. Going for oil changes was always fun.

It’s a great name for an engine best used as a boat anchor...

Die cast is overrated in the face of Lego ;)

Add lightness:

It sounds like a company called Wheeler and Davies is still making new shells today. Only ~£8000 for all the body and chassis bits. Bring your own suspension and drive train, and interior.

Tool - 10,000 days, pretty much any set of 3 tracks played in order from the album...

This is pretty much my dream project. I love Bugeye Sprites because they’re so happy looking. Having something zippy and fun looking would be amazing. Sadly bugeye shells in decent condition are rapidly becoming more expensive...