This car inspired me when I had a red Australian built Mercury Capri four seat convertible with the Mazda running gear. I removed all the Capri emblems, put a prancing horse decal on each fender and christened it the “Ferrari Formaggio”. Everything Mazda designed and built worked like a charm. Everything the…

I owned a 4x4 Dakota of the same vintage. The meat locker cold A/C was it’s best feature, even though it did not allow heat/recirc/AC operation to rid the cabin of humidity. The front pumpkin was bolted to the engine in such a way that changing the oil required drooling it down through the mount bracket and all over…

True that, my wife was working from home for six figures. The only person who knew the whole enchilada. The new ownership group hired five guys in India to take over her job. One month later (the usual processing cycle), her company offered her half her wage, no benefits, on a contractor basis (all taxes paid by her)…

It’d take three Range Rovers to get to 400k.

I regularly get on the Copart site and sort by various categories, high mileage being one of them. Other than OTR semi trucks (often 1,000,000 milers), the highest miles driven are usually Japanese cars, and often American full size pick up trucks. 400,000 miles is doable with an ICE. I’ve not seen a Tesla yet, but…

Wouldn’t it work better to drive the car into a tree hard enough to ensure a total loss? The insurance company would pay out the total on the loan, and, barring injury, the underwater party would be high and dry.

We in Seattle built the South Lake Union Trolley. Local wags sell T-shirts with the phrase: “I ride Seattle’s Two Dollar SLUT”.

Self driving cars, anyone?

Ah yes, my friend had a Malibupala, or was it the Impamalibu?

Inslee wouldn’t carry the State of Washington if he was nominated to run. Come on back, Jay, and spare us the four million dollars paid to your security detail. Too late.

Bunks. Horizontal let me sleep and leave me alone bunks, please.

I want to visit a dealer and shout “Nice Tatas!”

Having worked in sheet metal for long enough to have gotten bits into my eye now and then, a strong magnet is your friend.

Seattle Times again wrong in claiming Amazon was the reason the head tax was repealed, when in fact it was an unprecedented grass roots effort by ordinary citizens fed up with the absolute shit storm of stupidity emanating from the offices of the City Council and Mayor. We are similarly organizing more grass roots…

I suspect a bad heater core depleted the coolant, leading to a head gasket blown, in concert with the burnt clutch from an abusive owner, with infrequent (non existent?) oil changes and a bad second gear synchro were the collective death knell for this Alfa. Still, nice price all the way.

Don’t forget the air (as exhaust) has to get out of the engine, I had a car with a clogged catalytic converter that blocked the exhaust.  Diagnosed by removing the O2 sensor and having it fire up.  Also, a muffler can get clogged by a baffle coming loose, or an unfortunate family of ferrets taking up residence and…

This guy is welcome to risk his own damn life any way he wants, but when he puts me and the general public at risk with his hare brained bullshit, I say “STOP!”.

My boss did a similar thing many years back, sucking water into the airbox and hydrolocking the engine.  He successfully convinced Chrysler to replace the engine on his Grand Cherokee because Chrysler had an advertisement out that showed a Grand Cherokee successfully fording a rive that went over the roof of the…

The 25 year exemption is flooding my local area with very low mileage Japanese domestic market diesel trucks. Many are ex fire department rigs that are four wheel drive, right hand drive five speed crew cabs. No a/c, sad to say, and they take white trucks and paint them red. Search JDM Seattle for a reputable…

I own two Toyotas presently, of six, NONE of them has cost me more than wear items: brake pads, battery, oil, filter. I own a Mercedes W124, and am looking at several weekends work to replace the heater core/A/C condenser, with the requisite high dollar parts expenditure. My next purchase will be a Toyota, and the…