I tried flat-towing a 1967 Olds Cutlass behind a 1979 Chevy Caprice Classic in the snow. It didn’t work out very well.

In my area, the price is pretty spot-on but it’s ugly and I don’t like it.

I reluctantly agree with you on this one.

Now that the cold weather is here I can’t give my car more than half-throttle without spinning the rear tires and pinging off the rev limiter.

Nah you’re pretty much spot-on here.

I’m old enough to remember these when they were new, and they were (A) trash and (B) bad trash. A high school friend had one mechanically identical to this one in 1986 and it was already near death; this is a $2500 car at best.

Well, he’s an utter shitbag of a man.

I learned on a 1980 Toyota SR-5 pickup truck. Enough torque to not stall easily, a precise shifter, and a smooth, light clutch with very repeatable and manageable engagement points made it easy. I taught most of my friends to drive stick on it, too.

Same here. But ARGH.

GAH!

THIS.  100% this.  And I’ll add that replacing the suspension due to the massively accelerated wear caused by heavier rotating masses located further from their pivot-points will probably be expensive.

Cops LYING?

Inconceivable!

5mm-thick steel on a frame rail is pretty thick. That’s just under .2 inches or the very near equivalent of 6-gauge; the Silverado 2500 HD frame is 4.6mm. Of course, we’d need to know the tensile strength as well for a full comparison.

Talk about burying the lede...

You haven’t been to the local sex toy emporium!

OK that thing is GLORIOUS.

This may, at last, be what persuades me to abandon this website.

As a personal car, or a family car? For just me, anything I can fold my unwieldy six-foot-six, 265 pound frame into and drive without my size-fifteen-shoes getting caught in the pedals. For reference, my ‘04 ZX-3 Focus didn’t have enough leg room and made my knees ache after more than half an hour but my wife’s ‘17…

93 pounds; the cargo bike was 76. And 93 pounds is RIDICULOUS.

<<eyeroll>>