Importing the car was surely a costly endeavor. Perhaps I’ll find that out first-hand if my desire to import a ‘98 Suzuki Jimny after the 25-year mark come to fruition. I just can’t see the seller recovering even a small majority of the monetary cost involved.

Good one. Take your star!

Were I in the market for a Lada, I’d want assurance that it has never appeared in a YouTube Russian dash-cam video. Withouy such assurance, it’s Crack Pipe at any price.

Two waterheads with more dollars than sense, obviously. This is a $10,000 car on the best of days. At least ricers probably won’tt regularly browse Bring A Trailer and convince themselves that their previously wrecked, badly modified examples are worth a small fortune.

Whoa, there; I wasn’t trying to make a jab at you specifically. I was merely trying to make a commentary on how modern trucks have become so bloated and overcomplicated, and hardly any more capable than a good used truck. In my defense, sometimes it’s difficult to convey these things accurately over the Internet. If…

I miss that old Ford (it had just about every option except a limited-slip and an automatic) every day!

Helluva lot of radio gear you have there! Your truck looks rust-free, too; I’d be afraid to drive it in Metro Detroit!

Diesel Excursion, maybe?

If you ever have to cut your fleet down to one, I’d take the ‘86 off your hands!

Great take! In my utopia, everyone who wanted a truck would have to spend a month driving a Dodge Power Wagon from the ‘40s or ‘50s. One complaint about the harsh ride, lack of additional cab space, or crashbox would render them permanently unable to own a truck.

I’m 6'2,” and every truck I’ve owned has been a regular cab. And I knew a guy who was 6'8" and said he’d never sell his ‘00 regular-cab Silverado. Your assertion that “only short people can drive single-cab trucks” has thus been confirmed as bullshit.

I can’t afford a new truck, either, but I’ve owned four used trucks. Even if I could afford a new truck, I wouldn’t buy one. I have better uses for my money, and new trucks are marketed toward limp-dick bitch-asses who have no business owning a truck in the first place.

Especially not with two shifters coming out of the floor. Nice truck, by the way!

An extended cab gives you a negligible increase in usable space and makes the truck ugly as fuck. Besides, the area between seat back and cab wall was the safest place to transport a 6-pack of beer in my 1993 F-150 (regular cab, of course).

The exterior is a clusterfuck of bulged and inorganic shapes trying to be “edgy,” and it has too many doors. No, thank you.

Trucks, in my mind, have beds long enough for me to sleep comfortably in (I’m 6'2") and do not have back seats (or area for them). This Volkswagen truck wanna-be is just a dippy “crossover” with the roof aft of the C-pillars hacked off.

Having re-read the comment, I can see why it may have caused confusion. I did not say that my friend’s Focus had a manual. The idiots I’ve seen who relied solely on their parking brakes and experienced roll-backs also had manual transmissions. So the confusion is understandable and not a big deal.

Why wouldn’t someone leave their vehicle in Park? If it has a manual transmission.

Using the parking brake and putting the shifter in park or first gear is the best way to go. I knew a guy who always left his Focus in neutral with the parking brake applied. Fortunately for him, he wasn’t one of the idiots I’ve seen who rely exclusively on the parking brake, only to find that their vehicle rolled…

This car is a consummate example of why “never buy someone else’s project car” is an axiom. Cobbled-up mishmash of parts that may or may not work? Check! Questionable drivability? Check! Seller convinced that he should not take a huge loss on selling his cobbled-up deathtrap? Check! Potential headaches with inspection…