I’ve worked at a used lot (albeit higher end) and there was no prep charge. All the recon costs (detail, lof, paint repair, etc) were rolled into the cost of the car. In fact, it was my job to keep all those costs logged to each individual vehicle.

There’s still places that do that. The original owner of my car had a sunroof installed by the dealer because she couldn’t wait to get a cabrio.

I *think* you get an emissions waiver, but I’m not sure. The Trabi definitely wouldn’t be a daily driver, more just a quirkmobile for occasional outings, shows, C&Cs, etc.

Nope, just can’t do that. My Corvette and I have a long love story of the “if you love something, set it free” variety. I set her free, she came back, car is meant to be mine till death do us part.

My daily is a 500 Abarth

We could have a Trabi timeshare!

One of these days I’m just gonna buy a Trabi and my husband is gonna go into the garage and see I have a hopeless little commie shitcan next to my pretty little Corvette and absolutely go ballistic. I’ve asked a million times if I can have one and the answer is always no because I have two cars already. A girl can…

I come from a color guard background (the people in marching bands with the flags and weapons) and every time I see a scandinavian flick, all I can think of is it’s the same exact technique as throwing a rifle triple. 1/4 dip, toss it, catch it when it comes back around. Just y’know, the weapon is a couple thousand…

Scottish, Swedish, and Danish here. I can cook, I just can’t handle the concept of spice. Learned basic stuff from my mom and sorta swanky west coast stuff from my aunts. Everything else is from cook books or online. Cooking is exactly like wrenching, if you just follow the directions correctly, you’ll be fine.

No, thank YOU Torch. See, it’s prices like this that let us weirdo Jalop come together. Anyone can babble on about horsepower and clutches and whatever other technical crap you want, but design, and specifically weird design requires an independent brain to observe, formulate an opinion on, then discuss. It’s not…

It usually works out pretty well since cooking is one of the few things I’m actually really good at. Unfortunately, sometimes I have to balance cooking with wrenching, racing, and SCCA meetings.

Yup, he came with a can opener and that’s about it.

The most difficult barrier so far has just been getting tools. So many people forget that nobody is born literally with a wrench in their hand and some of us don’t get to inherit a dad or uncles tools. I have to go out and buy everything and create the whole collection from scratch.

Knowing him, he won’t be interested.

I don’t get that so much. My family sells tons of Corvettes and therefore we already know all those shops. Hell, we have the best Vette mechanics in the state on staff.

Give me the pellets. See, I don’t actually legit hate anyone really, just sorta mild dislike. I could probably talk my husband into ok-ing it as a business venture and there was no mention of it needing to be bareback, so safe sex with a man of moderate annoyance for unlimited gas and alcohol sounds acceptable. As for…

Yeah, things can happen. That’s why I’m willing to work on my Fiat but not my Corvette. I’m very lucky in that my family employs several of the best Corvette mechanics in the state, so they are far more trustworthy with my car than I am. With the 500 though, I’m a little looser. I work on it, our guys work on it, and…

He was raised in a culture of more “traditional” gender roles, shall we say. When I first found him he was basically living off of canned food, haha

Husband is not allowed into the kitchen for anything more than microwave usage. He has absolutely no idea how to cook even basic things

I am a girl married to a fellow enthusiast. I recently completed my first successful wrenching attempt, but not without some annoyance. A year ago, I tried my first project and it became not-my-project from the moment my husband raised the lift too high for my 5'4" self to get the rear wheels off. Some months later I…