Looking forward to seeing the links you have to ads for good condition, ready to drive 80s bargemobiles selling for under $500. There aren’t any in the Vancouver area. I think it’s a rather expensive market for older cars here so I’m willing to entertain the notion there really are hundreds of cars like this available…

“60s Porsches were practically free in the 1990s” In the Vancouver area they weren’t. If they were I would have owned at least one. When I was looking in the early 90s I couldn’t even find a 912 in the $10,000 or less range that didn’t have a lot of rust in the torsion bar mount areas - and quite a few other problems…

This is why I’ve never been an early adopter. I’m probably extreme in that with regards to cars - I won’t buy a new design in the first year even if it comes from a well proven manufacturer.

Nonsense! Everyone, and I mean everyone who buys a car should buy used. No one should ever waste money on a new car. I see no logical flaw in this assertion whatsoever.

Good thing it has a receiver mounted bike rack - you wouldn’t want to put the bikes in the back and scratch up that nice interior. I think it’s brilliant. All the time I spent driving Elements (about 500,000km in total) I frequently thought to myself “If only this car had no structural integrity and no weather…

The vast majority of commercial pilots don’t deliberately fly their aircraft into the ground, other aircraft or into stalls - GPWS, TCAS and stick shakers/pushers were still engineered, tested, refined and installed and have prevented accidents. In aviation the effort to increase safely by increased pilot training has…

Whoever it was at GM that was responsible for that reverse light thing deserves a fate like Tantalus. Well, maybe not quite that bad but still, they deserve some pain. I’m always hyper alert in parking lots because of how often people just select reverse and floor it so when I see backup lights I stop. Drives me batty…

Aww, man... I shoulda come back here to read the comments sooner. I went with the painting and now I’m suffering buyer’s remorse. The eyes don’t even follow me around the room! I should have sensed things were going to go wrong when the artist said he could turn out my 2,000 square foot painting commission in two…

“still the most analog car in the McLaren lineup”

““Price On Request”

The Rolls-Royce Culligan or The Bentley Babayaga? I’ve got a half-million burning a hole in my pocket and just can’t make up my mind.

It looks like the seatpost in that picture is slid all the way down to touch the ground - and do double duty as a kickstand? Since the seat needs to be on the center line of the wheels this wouldn’t strike me as the most stable arrangement but maybe it works. I notice in the picture of the bike folded up the seatpost…

If there had been a four cylinder Mustang with some extra-spicy chassis ingredients in the manner of the SVO and a turbo that really felt more like an old-school turbo - you know, rolling in second gear, floor it and: Hmmmm...not much happeningwaitasecond...hooolllYSHEEEEETTTT!!!!!!!” - I would most likely have a…

I thought the 914 had been brought back into Porsche Communion a long time ago and it was just that HERETICAL AUDI ABOMINATION the 924 that still brought on the derision and threats at PCOA meetings.

Seattle... like Vancouver the snow (though it comes rarely) is usually like a vanilla Slurpee slushing on top of packed down ice.

My first car was a 1974 Capri 2.8. It was a pile by the time I owned it in the late 80s. I knew nothing about working on cars. Fortunately I bought the Haynes manual. It was the best workshop manual I’ve ever had within a year I was capable of regular maintenance, rewiring, replacing major components such as gearboxes…

I’m Canadian and the switch to metric came about early in my elementary school years. I can just barely remember seeing road signs in mile per hour. I still use a mix of metric and imperial as do a lot of people I know, including those who are much younger than I am. Feet, inches and pounds seem to be the most…

Yes, in the early years of the automatic the patterns differed from manufacturer to manufacturer but eventually the PRNDL became universal... and now we are here in the glorious techno-utopia of the twenty-first century and they’re screwing around with the layout in all sorts of ways again. Was the driving public…

Every now and then someone has managed to design and build an aircraft that suffers from aileron control reversal due to insufficient torsional stiffness of the wings. Often it has happened when a critical speed has been reached: below that speed everything is normal, above it instead of the ailerons rolling the…

Just try riding a motorcycle with a sidecar - the steering changes if the sidecar wheel lifts off the ground. When the sidecar wheel is on the ground it steers like a tricycle, when the sidecar wheel is in the air it steers like a solo motorcycle. It can be interesting...