If this is the kind of thing you like, this is the thing for you.  I’d put a turbo motor and a 5-speed in it, and 15" slot mags.  It’d be a lot cheaper to start with this car than try to make a $2000 car this nice.

It really doesn’t fit my needs, but if it did, I might give it a shot. Owning vintage Germanmobiles is scary, especially at this level of hardware complexity. I know because I had two vintage/modern BMWs, and this has to be way worse. My 2018 GTI will be old eventually, but it’s simpler and easier to work on than this…

Factory navigation - for the times you can’t get a GPS connection on your phone. We had to buy the top trim to get it in any of the cars my wife recently shopped. I didn’t get it on my car because the top trim came with other gizmos I didn’t want, but I have better tolerance for suction-mounted aftermarket GPS than my…

I agree completely! I generally avoid any youtube type reviews of anything. I was car shopping last year and watched a handful of videos about Mazda CX5 and CX50, and they were crap. Full of useless trivia, obvious errors and bad takes, and they seemed to be people with a decent number of followers. I’ll stick with…

It’s been years since I had In-n-out, until last month. My wife had never had it, but had heard of it and was looking forward to trying it out. We got off the plane in PHX hungry, and stopped at the first In-n-out we came to. I warned her it wouldn’t live up to the hype. News flash: it didn’t. The place was _packed_,…

I wanted to say NP, but it probably needs to be in a little better condition for that price.  And I thought they had the GTI engine.  Maybe that came later?  Off to Wiki...

Years (decades, generations) ago, I helped an ex-GF shop for a good used car that her cello would fit in. It ruled out a lot of choices. She bought an 87 Accord hatchback coupe.

Sorry, but I’d consider stealing that.

From Wikipedia:

Of course it’s not available here.

You’re absolutely right. I should care, but I don’t. Sometimes people get what they deserve.

The ad is gone, so somebody must have liked the price a lot.

I hadn’t heard of intake gaskets being a problem on the 3.1, just intake manifolds on the 3.8 (and I assume 3.3) Buicks.

The RWD Starion was in no way related to the FWD Daytona and Laser.

It is reliableish, able to take most of the stresses of commuter life, low maintenance, and cheap to buy and run. That is all ninety-nine percent of the driving public care about.

I’d feel more comfortable owning an SC from this period of time than I would a Mercedes SL or a BMW 6 Series, that’s for sure.

My plant smells like Cherry Coke once every two weeks.

huh. I wonder if this got publicly explained back in the day.

Hmmm.. My wife has had several cars with laminated side glass and I never thought about that. Not that we keep a glass hammer and seatbelt cutter in the car anyway. I’ll see if her current car has laminated rear door glass; I think it doesn’t.

Six inches thick!? I’m amazed a section only weighed 80LB!