Exactly my plan too. Let me know when you’re ready - maybe we can get a bulk rate on the parts :)

Sounds no worse than other cars of the same vintage to me. I’ve always avoided the idea of buying them because I’m too cheap for the cars perceived maintenance woes. 

I’m an unabashed fan of the XJS. I hope to get one some day to restomod.

The Volvo in The Saint was Roger Moore’s own personal car. The show didn’t have the budget to supply a cool car for him to drive, but Moore thought it was important for the character, so he supplied his own.

Roger’s films are fantastic, and I love “The Man with the Golden Gun” as he and Christopher Lee facing off was incredible.

I don’t know enough about the traffic laws to make a real judgement here. Seems to me the fault would lie with the person who rear ends someone, but it’s also a double line, and like I said I don’t know the laws.

The accident is the fault of the dingus who decided to illegally pull out into the HOV lane across a solid line in front of clearly oncoming traffic (the biker), but good lord, don’t ride a motorcycle or drive a car at 80 MPH (watch his speedometer) in a lane next to traffic going about 20 MPH slower.

I agree with you except for the HVAC dials part. Knobs rule. My parents’ otherwise awesome plug-in Ford Fusion has an insufferable control system for the temp/nav/radio. It needs to die with fire.

Really? It makes me wish that we would do away with the antiquated idea that going fast is inherently dangerous; it cars like these it certainly isn’t.

Older cars aren’t unsafe, they’re merely less safe than newer ones. Everything is relative. Our dismal driver education standards are one of the biggest threats to road safety. 

isn’t “safe” mainly in hands of the drivers? if these cars killed everybody that drove one, would any of us even be here?

Trying to reconcile these two statements, made back to back in the video.

3 point belts will allow/direct your body to move in a somewhat controlled way in a rollover situation. A harness will keep you nice and upright while your car rolls over and crushes you. The safety systems all work together. If you want a harness to improve safety, then it needs to be a package deal with the seat and…

From my understanding, it’s to prevent the driver being crushed in a rollover. In a stock seat the three-point belt allows the driver to slide sideways slightly to make room for the collapsing roof. In a harness, you are stuck sitting bolt-upright, so if the roof deflects at all (which it probably will in a rollover),…

I watched a guy in the parking lot once walking around with jumper cables asking people to jump him. No one would say yes. We’re so used to so many people begging for money in parking lots where I live, so I didn’t even think twice either when I said no.

Nothing gets women going like having to put on 5-point harnesses when going out on a date.

I wouldn’t pay anything for autonomous technology in a car, and I normally am all for technology. My reasoning has more to do with how stupid car prices have gotten, and I would hate to see them get even worse due to have autonomous tech in it, no matter how useful it is relative to the rest of the worthless crap…

Its worth exactly $0 to me. Because I do not want it. I prefer to drive my cars.

I assume those 1260 people submitted their FICO scores and monthly incomes. If not, then I’d like these three researchers to conduct a study on the market viability of brown diesel manual wagons in the appropriate setting, and rush it to the major manufacturers, post-haste.

Of all the things they’ve let slide for bigger teams over the years, to suddenly come down this hard on Carl was quite frankly a joke.