You should read the book “The Longest War” by Peter Bergen. Fantastic, extremely well-sourced look at the “War on Terror” and the hubris/preconceived notions which led to a lot of the larger mistakes.

Sorry to hear that man, I know what you’re going through and it isn’t fun.

Same sorts of “life happens” stuff goes on with normal cars, too. Just bad timing.

Again, different market and you’re looking at it logically. Where I live people would absolutely drive a pristine one of these (or a pristine Wagoneer, or Range Classic, whatever) just because it’s the best, not because it makes rational sense.

You’re clearly not the target audience here then. For someone who wants one of these, for any reason... find a better one.

I posted this in another article* while back but I’ll repost it here since it’s largely still applicable:

It’s an old Ford truck, all that work can be done for about 50 cents.

$1.50 BATD = $1.00 USD and holding steady, given my extensive analysis conducted weekly since lockdown started mid-March of 2020.

Most air cooled models are valued at about what I feel like they should be worth right now. The Turbo cars, especially the 993 Turbos, are still overvalued. IMO the 930s should be in the $60-70k range and the 993 Turbo just below $100k. They’re great cars, and iconic, but objectively they aren’t $100k+ vehicles.

Can’t fault that choice of car at all, best of luck with getting one!

Million dollar question is, what’s the dream car?

“We don’t pray for love, we just pray for cars”

Good to know, I do also so I’m hopeful it should be fine. I have no idea what my next step will be, the desire to buy has diminished a lot since I got the Submariner since it’s such a versatile piece.

Agreed. Sure it’s an ugly pile of crap, but even as such it sure as hell is beyond anything I could build with my own two hands.

Back in the COD4 days when my friends and I spent entirely too much time playing that game we made a gamertag “fluffy kittens” for exactly that reason. Hearing other players yell out “f*cking fluffy kittens!” after we repeatedly took them to school never got old.

Confirmed, even on XB1X it’s stunning in 4K.

Going back to FH3, though, the world is very flat in terms of elevation. The hills in FH4 alone make the world much more dynamic and enjoyable/challenging to drive around.

I love the simplicity and non-flashiness of the 2-line without the engraved rehaut, I went out of my way to find one with papers, and which hadn’t been polished, and it took a while!

I’m mostly a black dial/black bezel guy, my daily wear watch is a 2-line 14060M (love the simplicity of it), but man if I was offered a Kermit for $5700 right now I’d jump on that so fast. Would be a no-brainer as a quick flip.

And historically speaking, they’ll almost certainly not lose that value gained. For the last 15ish years any stainless men’s watch with a coronet goes one direction: up.