I can only give my favorite, the W115 cars. The real transition to modernity for sedans, 4-wheel disc brakes, assorted engines types & sizes, IRS (not swing axles either) . The W123 carried that on, but the 115s started it.

I, for one, am proud of you. This is exactly the kind of baptism by fire, and rite of passage towards earning your gearhead cred. It is the stuff that allows you to own cool cars others can't because they don't know how to fix them and would go rapidly bankrupt paying someone else to. When you do get fun cars, they…

Ahh, maybe I should have used "avoided" and "did not experience" instead of "missed", which might be misconstrued as a sort of yearning.

This times infinity.

The one I had, beat this in 1967:

Dare I suggest:

This times 10

Every film has a beginning, a middle and an end. Most interesting ones have a Hero and a Villain. Start with that.

Actually, I think the EB110 was out in front of The Hermitage. Hotel de Paris is on Casino Square.

Ferrari, hands down.

Wasting tens of thousands of dollars on depreciation is really strange metric for "success". Truly rich people do not set their cash on fire and throw it out the window. The cost principle illustrated here is one of mis-priced risk. The new car buyer pays a premium for absolute reliability (plus warranty) for the…

Yeah, Suzuki. I wanted to buy an Esteem, but not stock. I'd get mine lowered.

Fiat! A new one or from the Golden Age before emisson controls and big bumpers spoiled them?

I'm pretty sure Rob Siegel is Jewish and wrote an excellent book called Memoirs of a Hack Mechanic. Kinda puts the "not tinkering with cars" in the junkpile.