Still a great movie - and Truly Scrumptious was indeed truly scrumptious

It looks like it ticks all my boxes: super lightweight chassis, modest power, uncomplicated styling

I guess $3.5k for a little Porsche runabout that actually runs isn’t a bad deal. To my mind, it’s the closest relatively unmolested thing to a 240SX you can find these days, pop-up headlights and all, so that’s not a bad thing. That being said, I would always be looking at that little 924 and thinking “Damn, I…

That would be “turbo” lag

That’s one creepy picture - The Don and his ladies

They’ll let anyone with a driver’s license operate one of those things.

Fair enough, but I’d still go with the known (albeit imperfect) quantity over “Joe Bloggs Back Porch Motors Inc”

So do we - hence the resounding “CP”

Hats off for a seriously adventurous bit of car modding, but this is essentially a one-off built outside some dude’s garage in the suburbs. If I’m paying solid money for a used VW, I’d like to it to have been built by folks with some track record in building VWs (i.e., VW). The fact that he didn’t manage to complete…

The seatbelt -or lack of - doesn’t really put other road users at risk, short of the risk of flying out of the car and hitting someone else

Agreed - you need to like tinkering and be prepared to roll your sleeves up, but that’s half the fun, IMO

Don’t ever raise the image of “Stephen Miller leaking” ever again. I can’t afford the therapy

SLCs are pretty reliable if you keep up with the admitted higher level of routine maintenance. In 8 years, my TR6 has stranded me once, when the 45-year-old ignition switch crapped out. I replaced it with a $30 modern switch and all good again. Every few weeks I spend a few hours tweaking the ‘6, but that’s fun, not a…

What I refer to as “fun and games at- or below the speed limit”

Go to a British car show anywhere and you’ll quickly realize that Triumphs and MGs are the poor relations of the Small Leaky Car world - Healy’s and E-types are the rich uncles

Agreed - the frame is the key, closely followed by bodywork. Rust in either of these places can be expensive - pretty much everything else is easily and cheaply addressed, and aftermarket spares are readily available

Given how rust-prone the frames on these little devils are, the oil leak should be viewed as a feature, rather than a bug

Same way he could never find a good tailor - too cheap

the bad credit/Hertz counter brand

“Losing”.....I’d say that ship has already sailed, but it’s apparently broken...