I always have an irrational fear of final destination type of exploits around semis 

I would argue that a new car has its place. The key is to not see it as an investment, but as a sunk cost.

This is so true. There is at least one thing left off almost every video I have ever watched on how to do something. Sometimes it’s something small that you can figure out, other times it’s a big chunk of info that you didn’t know you needed and the person making the video you watched either forgot to add or assumed…

You said you are already past the disassembly phase, but there are two things I thank my past self the most for.

I turn 40 next month and I’m in pretty much the same boat. Driving for a quarter century with less than 1 hour of manual transmission experience. The sad reality is that my Dad has owned multiple manual transmission Porsches since long before I was born and haven’t had the joy of driving any of them because of this…

The clear taillight covers on the late 90's and early ‘aughts Toyota Altezza/Lexus IS300, from which the “Altezza” style derived it’s name. It ended up making it’s way into everything from the Impreza hatchback to the 4th gen Altima (which is actually one of my favorite interpretations of this style, despite it…

Kind of competitors in that they are both large sedans, Honda Accord and Dodge Charger:

Chrysler around this era. The cab forward sedans, the game-changing Ram design. So many design hits in the 90's.

Hot take:  Bill Mitchell replacing Harley Earl at GM and completely changing the literal shape of GM design.

This is wonderful to hear now, but if I had known this when I was 12, it would’ve been the greatest thing to have ever happened to me and would’ve been the most significant milestone in my life for years to come. 

“This motor swap will be cheap. I can use mostly junkyard parts”

Door closes with a hollow feeling rather than with a reassuring “thump”

Hard plastics through out the interior, no air bag, no seatbelts, 

The “cheap OEM parts” reminds me of that old adage about how it’s expensive to be poor. A poor person needs work boots, but can’t afford a good $100 pair. So he buys a $10 pair. But they wear out, so he buys another $10 pair. And so on. Whereas if he had been able to buy the $100 pair from the jump, they’d last much…

The intersection sinkhole billowed steam into the sky and was large enough to swallow an entire car.

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Yes, Explorer and Taurus are 90's icons, but lets not sleep on the Dodge Neon.

I really wanted to say it was the Viper, but I challenged my assumptions. After giving it some thought, I’m pretty sure the answer is the Ford Explorer. It was the first widely-accepted soft-roader “SUV” that was really just a different-looking minivan. The beginning of the end of The Car and the beginning of the…

Neon. It is the ninetiest car to ever nineties. When I picture a nineties car it in nearly always Neon-esque with its circles and soapbars look.

Yeah it’s like expecting someone who’s into fancy watches to be drooling over an Apple watch just because it has more functions.