The current medical term is actually STI.

Condoms and F1 have come together before, as it were:

Missed one, although it is a brand of truck rather than a car

It's odd that so many diesel engines sound like they're named after condom brands too:  Duramax? Powerstroke? Cummins of course too-

This constant emphasis on safety is taking all the fun out of cars.

Perhaps you miss the point. It’s not about how cheap can he buy a car, this isn’t some old Top Gear challenge.

Wise words, Farty McSprinkles

If you can finally get that Kia off your writer bio thing I call it a win.

Brandon sounds like a true friend. Broken cars are easier to fix than broken friendships, so go easy on him next time! Great story as usual.

Wait, the Nissan GTR isn’t made by Sony?

Very personal for me. Tom Wilson, dearly departed cartoonist of the comic Ziggy had one that he had painted mint green. We both worked for American Greetings back in the early 80's and when I was in Cleveland for HQ meetings, I always seemed to be tasked with finding him after one of his drunken benders. Circa 1984 I…

My guess, given the condition, is that this was driven a lot for a time and then either the owner died and it sat somewhere and now the estate or a relative has decided to get a dealer to liquidate it, or someone bought it in rough shape and bankruptcy eventually killed the dream of fixing it up.

If it was Tracy it would be a Jeep grille.

Oh lighten the fuck up, Francis. 

I wouldn’t reminisce about an old teacher sending me a pile of floppy dicks.

#FIFY

How dare you. It’s Friar Torch.

CP, not enough Omni grilles.

Short term gain for long term disaster. It’s easy to enjoy a massive spike in profits if you start cutting corners so that your P/L statement looks great. But if the corners you’re cutting get you a reputation for making dangerous crap that kills people, well, that’s not a sustainably profitable scenario.