I'd just swap plates for fun in that situation. I have a cool vintage OK 1976 Bicentennial plate that would be fun for stuff like that.

The world is a scary place. Even scarier when you're trying to sell something on Craigslist. Those crazy people may stalk you or may come rob you if they know where you live, which they could easily get from their girlfriend at the DMV. But that's not enough.

LOL, White people !

Do what I do. Have a credit card that you only use on occasion and never carry a balance on. You can even use a credit card for everything but just pay off the balance every month. It takes discipline, which is why a lot of people don't do it.

This is true. They are often willing to negotiate a lower base price if they think they're going to make up some money through financing. The key to the whole deal is to negotiate the price (not the payment) and get it locked in before dropping the bombshell of a large down-payment, trade-in or cash payment. Let…

I managed to play this card well on my last car purchase. I made them aware that I already had all my paperwork lined up at a bank branch down the road. The dealership managed to beat that deal. (It took a few hours for them. Meanwhile I took an extended lunch).

Yeah, of all the parts bins to go scavenging, they pick those awful headlights. Why not go with something more fitting of a delivery van such as those off a pickup? Perhaps they wanted to make sure they would bear no resemblance to anything else on the road?

Not the case when you're a professional estimator. An actual estimate carries certain weight so we often use the term guesstimate to indicate a figure is based more on an educated guess than on market research or quantitative analysis and doesn't hold the legal weight of a proper estimate.

It may not be illegal but I do know someone who was chewed-out by a cop for driving barefoot in Oklahoma.

False. Food cooked over an open fire on a grill is simply grilled. Not barbecued. You're not one of those people from up North who think grilling a steak is cooking barbecue are you?

One big reason why they aren't using a turboprop and not a turbofan or other jet engine is autorotation and/or shared power. If you have one engine fail the other supplies power through a driveshaft. If both fail you can still autorotate to make a controlled descent and landing (in proper circumstances).

Common misconception. Front airbags only deploy in the event of a front collision. No need for a front airbag when you've been hit from the rear.

Seconded!

That reminds me of the fight my college roommate went through with his 1970 GTO a dozen years ago. He got hit by a guy (who had Progressive, I seem to recall). Progressive offered him something like $1,200 for his GTO. His response was "If that's what it's worth, please find me another 1970 GTO in such great…

Any proper Indian Owned company should be able to produce a TERO (Tribal Employment Rights Office/Ordinance) certificate from their respective tribe or in the case of the Navajo, from the Office of Economic Development. I'm Indian and I've been working in Indian Country for years and I've seen numerous attempts to…

We love our Subaru but the new outbacks have a couple strikes against them: No 3rd row seating, same engines as we have now, which leaks oil and needs to be completely pulled to repair.

We currently have an Outback that's the last generation that they were still a car and not a bloated wannabe crossover. Part of me (and her) wants to keep the car aspect as we like how it feels and handles. The AWD and potent engine are other big selling points on the Flex as well, which are a definite drawback with…

NO. I had to drive a Safari (GMC equivalent of the Astro pictured above) for the first 6 months after getting my license before my parent's deemed me worthy of helping pay for a different used car. It sucked and was embarassing.

Thanks for this writeup. I'm in the very early phase of identifying candidates for a new family hauler. My wife may actually be interested in this. Things like the flat floor and the sliding doors are on her wish list. So far I've been trying to get her interested in the Ford Flex, which may be the better fit for…

True SUV's will always have a place. No wagon, minivan, or hatchback would suitably haul my family and associated camping gear up a fire road and across streams like my trusty Jeep Cherokee.