I kind of think it’s funny that half the people say they love keyless because “I’ll never have to worry about locking the key in the car again!”. I’ve never locked my keys in the car....because I lock them with the key. (And I don’t think I’ve owned a car built since the 80's that allows you to lock the driver’s door…

Why do you have to hold the stalk? On every car I’ve driven it will stay put till you cancel it or it self cancels. Unless you are talking about having to cancel it if you didn’t turn the wheel far enough (or yours is malfunctioning - I had a car with a bad stalk, so you had to hold it to make it blink)

Ding! This is the one thing that drives me mad about keyless. I can’t actually leave one locked in my driveway unless I want to hide the key in a metal box on the second floor or park on the street. At least with a normal key the damn car stays locked.

One fault in that plan - the Golden Eagle actually has a little collector value, so once fixed up you wouldn’t DD it. Similarly, good XJ’s are getting hard to find outside of the desert, so if the one he has is actually in decent nick you don’t want to subject it to a Michigan winter, where it will dissolve almost…

I feel I should add that something like bad accident damage or if you’ve not maintained the car, then I can see buying something newer. 

First, you can hang onto the Accord for a bit until your FICO increases, though this may not be ideal given the age of the car

Some of it’s just use. The Vauxhall Cavalier is exactly the same kind of car as a Chevy Cavalier - a cheap little shitbox that by the time the fourth owner gets it, is just beat up and once it dies it gets thrown away.

However, Britain does have the MoT, so a lot of cars get scrapped when they’re unsafe and not…

No belts, either. I know I’d have gotten tossed out immediately. 

Come for the boobs, stay for the set design!

There is. If you look past the boobs and the various Francostaches, there’s some great set design.

I never not notice boobs. 

Yeah, I’ve been known to watch mid-century period pieces, just to look at the scenery. I can’t tell you what went on in Mrs. Maisel because I was looking at the scenery. I barely notice all the boobs in The Deuce. Heck, I watched all of Vinyl just because of the costumes and set design. 

What this means is that all the good bars will be empty tonight!

Kind of. I know more about that scene than I ever thought I would. There’s a huge long thread on the Pelican Parts BB about one of the more famous Mulholland cars, and a lot of the posters go into a lot of detail about the history. I was super fascinated by it for a hot minute.

Do they not have Maury Povich where you live? That’s what they show at the shop I take my car to for oil changes. Doesn’t matter what time of day I’m there, it’s always Maury.

I agree in part - I don’t particularly like that wheel/tire combo (and I kind of hate the drift car lettered tires), but trying to make it look like an original car is,as DopamineFiend says, going to make people pickier. Personally, I’d have gone for some kind of classic styled alloy - Minilite/RS Watanabe, or maybe…

Can’t edit - the RB car was at the dealership for servicing - I guess they’d just schedule them wherever the cars were (I was in the Chicago suburbs at the time)

I remember seeing one of these, still in full Red Bull regalia with the can on top, sitting at the local MINI dealer. This would’ve been sometime in 2015, as I was shopping for a new car then and MINI was on my shortlist. I kind of want one of these now, as a winter beater.

The P-39 and 63 are two of my favorite aircraft, solely for the design. 

Ha, I know exactly where this video was shot, and have photographed trains there when I still did that regularly and the J was still around. (I will admit to being excited when I randomly caught a Heritage unit on the UP - I never had a scanner or anything, I would just keep an eye on the tracks whenever I was nearby…