This reminds me of listening to interviews with the Magliozzi brothers (Click & Clack from Car Talk on NPR). They understood that car culture sometimes involved taking a hard look at the bad side of car culture and not just slavish worship of 4-wheels Good.  

“and perhaps whomever overserved her to the point of being a sloshed drunk should get in trouble as well”

My daughter has been an FA for about 10 years now and she has loved it. Wanderlust and freedom are the big appeal for her, and I can’t deny that her mom and I getting to fly on her benefits is a huge plus. She & her husband had their first child last year so she has been able to avoid most of the worst of this recent…

This is absolutely NP. Coach-built (at least as much as that meant by 1970's standards) Cadillac’s aren’t exactly rolling down the roads these days and finding any OG car from 1970 that was genuinely remarkable when it was new for any kind for a reasonable amount of today’s money is a rare feat.

Agreed, if this was sorted as is then the $13 asking price makes sense. Considering the laundry list of work required to get this on the road, no way. ND and good luck with the remainder of your private collection, hopefully you do better with the NFTs we all know are also being advertised by this guy.

This guy gets it. David Tracy finds used tires at junkyards all the time and is lauded for his ingenuity & frugality, no reason you can’t do the same with this hunk of junk.

Bah, its just a couple of radiator leaks. Get some flex hose from Autozone and a few worm drive clamps and you’re back on the road for like $50.  

Just because you don’t mean to, isn’t a reason not to.

Nah, this is throwaway money. Drive it for a season then sell it to the next 16 year old (youtuber) who comes along.

But, the electric FC? Don’t leave me hanging!

Wow dude, have you put in an application to write here, because if not you are missing your calling. Or maybe a true-crime blog, either or.  

You are living out my nightmare from this entire past weekend. For context, my daughter & I have been working on a 1984 RV w/ a Chevy 6.2l diesel engine in it. Lots of work has gone into it getting it running, stopping and riding correctly only for the daughter to decide at the last minute she wanted to drive it 500…

All of this. There is a decent condition CLS500 sitting in the yard across the street from me that the owner has been trying to give to me but the ABC system is shot on it and after looking through YT vids and Merc forums on how to fix it, even free (well, given certain title issues that also make it unpalatable)…

I don’t mind the engine change, these are terrifically slow with the original drivetrain so a simple SBC swap makes up for that. But yeah, the ghost flames and cheap-o wheels are a deal killer in my mind. Someone will pay $30 large for this and good for them, but its not to my liking.

Wasn’t it just a few years ago we were shitting on Jeep for mismatched fender flares, but now its considered an option package opportunity? 

The started on a 4th Gen 4-Runner w/ the V6 requires access through the mud shields in the driver’s side wheel well rather than from underneath like on a million other car designs. Not a normal maintenance items except with the mileage common to these vehicles, happened to me at 220k.

They had co-morbidities, so you can’t say they died “of” a crocodile bite but rather they died “with” a crocodile bite. /s

“It took the coolest character in the films and told us that everything that was cool about him was actually just this one week like a decade ago. That kinda deflates things”

My wife was a 911 operator in Pinellas Co Florida for a long time and she used to deal with the frustration of convincing PDs to actually dispatch their water units to inland lakes and ponds. Open water in the gulf of intercoastal? Heck they are out there all day long, but to search a 2 acre pond? Aw man I gotta find…

Well, that’s Polk Co pretty much in a nutshell.