Question: For us Left-Coasters are we going to be able to get this at Carl’s Jr? because this looks fantastic

I shall look upon it and despair

What about those space lasers I keep hearing about?

I’m so disappointed that no one said the plainly obvious solution:

You need 3 things to move this boat.

Several years back there was video taken as a big ship, just a medium sized cruise ship I believe, not one of those truly massive monsters, plowed into a pier at walking speed. I remember it leisurely tearing through what seemed like couple hundred yards of wooden plank pier as horns and sirens blew and anyone with…

this right here. add in the cost of labor and a mechanic’s parts markup and where are we then?

How about a Slideshow?  They fix everything.

Obvious Jalop answer missing - a couple thousand of these should do the trick:

Two thoughts:

Picture of Mercedes research process

$33 for a Ford Mustang Water Pump

No, be glad it’s an old Mustang.  You don’t want to know the bill if it was a less popular car from the era. 

That’s really not too bad.

So only a little over 1/3rd of the stimulus check then. It’s your patriotic duty to stimulate the economy by buying another ~$900 of car parts.

Mercedes is David Tracy if David Tracy had a significant other to talk him out of his worst ideas into ideas that are bad but not quite as bad. 

She can’t be channelling Tracy. There aren’t any rust holes big enough to flinstone that thing. 

Buying an old-ass vehicle to haul home another old-ass vehicle you just bought . . . .

The TBI variants of the LA series motors (3.9, 5.2, 5.9) basically run forever due to the fact that they don’t make enough power to hurt themselves. My 1988 Dakota had 200,000 HARD miles on it and still ran like a champ after the frame rotted in half.

Check your Trailer tires also. This happened to me in Gary Indiana albeit with a much heavier car. Limped it to the Happy Way Tire shop in Gary Indiana Great Prices, Service and Selection.