Devils advocate here. My friend Liz is a professional model, motorsport enthusiast and owns a killer RX-7. She actually looks forward to the F1 and MotoGP race at COTA in which she is a grid girl.

Why is it stereotypical that girls that choose to model are looked down upon by the very women that should support them?…

No matter what you drive, it’ll make a better impression if it looks clean and well-taken-care-of (good paint, no dents, no torn seats, no trash inside, etc.).

I’m sorry. But don’t these women choose of their own free will to be employeed based on their attractiveness? Men like looking at women. Some women like being paid to be looked at. What is the problem here?

In before the snowflakes start passive aggressively complaining about a non issue.

Bad top over an orange body...where have I seen that before?

Sometimes Cars & Coffee is great for this kind of casual talks between car guys with POSs and super rare Supercars. That is one reason I love going. Usually the only people that come off as rude are the new muscle car guys. Maybe that’s just my local area.

I pulled up nice and early to the local C&C in my beat up POS ‘90 Miata track whip. Rolled on paint, second hand parts, autocross/HPDE numbers and bullshit sponsor stickers all over it, pure beater. (and one hell of a track car) One of my detailing customers spotted me and waved me to park next to his month-old AMG…

Sadly with manuals no longer being faster than automatics, a larger portion of the enthusiast crowd (who I usually think of as bench racers) are buying automatics and there often isn’t enough demand to justify a manual.
Maybe we’ll get lucky and someone will make a manual swap like Tremek does with the Challenger and…

This is the best one I’ve seen, and it’s not even a vanity plate.

1980 Concord wagon, 2.5L Iron Duke 4 cylinder with a stick. Power steering and power brakes and that was it. Rock solid dependable car that got ridiculously good fuel economy, hit 32 highway many, many times. Went to her grave with about 200k miles on her, never once broke down, never once left me stranded. Maybe the…

These things were de rigueur in 1980's high end winter resort areas like Tahoe, Park City and Aspen. While I don’t think this is a steal, it is definitely a fair price. Try to find another in similar shape for less. 

NP NP NP I was ready to CP this one, but as I read through, rebuilt engine, leather seats, manual transmission and it’s freakin BROWN! Throwing reason to the wind, I really do want this one, despite my less than stellar experience with it’s 1974 Hornet sister.

Subaru gave up on manual wagons in the US so those are starting to get harder to find.

The only comparable alternatives to this that come to mind are Subaru wagons. With similar mileage, you’ll pay 2 to 2.5 times as much (quick search-not exhaustive scrounging).

I’d have no qualms about driving it around the world.

Well this little beauty checks off all of the right boxes; 4.2L straight 6, 5 speed manual, 2/4wd, wagon… Most likely, you folks are gonna kvetch about the price, and you may have a decent argument, but I challenge you to find another in this condition, assuming the mileage is trustworthy. As for the tachometer issue,…

You’re not going to find a better one. If you want one, this is the one that you should be getting.

NP: Only because I want one so badly and this is a fine example.

I don’t like “stance” when it means 25 degrees of negative camber. I don’t really love slammed cars, either. This car looks properly “stanced” and I don’t mean that in the stancebro way, but in the way that describes how a car sits.