Oh man. I can’t wait to pay three times more for a wheel that kinda looks like it’s made of steel.

But it’s not old man yelling at cloud. It’s anti consumerism and anti establishment.

See that’s what I’m thinking. I can understand (sorta) buying one for nostalgia.

They may be rare because people tended to use these things to death. 

And maybe that's where my mind trips up. That pop top is easy to install (I know I put a few dozen on in my years as a mechanic) so to me all of them are just old vans. And not good old vans either. 

Does someone really need to cosplay Magnum PI that badly?

I just don’t see why these things pull down the money that they do.

Sorry. The outfits are all corduroy (including underwear) or all denim (including socks) nothing else touches this wonderful pale flabby body.

Didn’t they just have a slew of articles about how unfair it is to work for these places and how no one should work for them regardless of wages.

That's a big ollll nope from me. 

It's a weird and strange time when a 90k car is considered low priced.

The Ford festiva. One day I will Mazda turbo swap one of these. Maybe rear engine swap a 1.6 Ecoboost.

So what happens in 8 years when I buy this as a used car. The GPS in our Odyssey is lacking quite a few roads and neighborhoods that have been built since it’s construction (and last update), bit we can still use it.

Splush?

Oh God. No question, Mercury Capri.

Ehh the UAW aren’t going to shut down the economy or (really) cripple anything.

Oh this is something we submit. I thought jalopnic looked for them.

I actually like these things. I was just an Audi tech a few years before these things came out. And Audis were nightmares without air suspensions and complicated technology. And I just have zero (zero) tolerance for things that drip oil or catch on fire. 

I am quite happy that people are keeping these weird ass cars going. Not really because they (the cars) should be kept going. But mostly because auto techs that specialize in these types of cars also deserve vacation homes at the beach. And their children should go to U of Penn and not graduate with debt. 

I just bought a 98 Ford explorer XLT 4x4 for a little over $2000. It has a dent in the hatch, zero rust, and ~83,000 miles. The interior is mint. It still has the Monronet sticker and all the paperwork from the original owner.