When I was 6 and 7 my parents had one (81-82). We lived in upstate New York and naturally my sister and I sat in the back with our fighter pilot joystick handles. They put a bed cap on it and We had sleeping bags we would sit in while my parents would open the sliding rear window for heat.

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And every single one ended with a fistfight in the pits.

As a teen in the 2000s I also learned on one, and I drive a manual to this day.  I enjoy it.  I always have enjoyed it.  I don’t care that an auto can shift faster or save .2mpg, I prefer to be in control.  

Who let you on here?

This is such sad news to me. I don’t know why I care, and I realize that there is no logical reason to drive a manual but I prefer it to the point that I have never bought an automatic.

Why do i suddenly have an urge to go to the store and buy all the wd-40 they have...

Between that and how they now offer blacked out wheels and trim on everything. They literally have played out blackout, as it went from sharp and mysterious to “I’m a cool dad whose wife let me buy this”

That’s the problem, you can get a bigger, more capable truck for the same money. There were plenty of Gladiators at the local Jeep dealership for well into the $50k range. That’s 3/4 ton truck money. I love the idea of a Wrangler pickup priced to compete with midsize offerings, not so much priced against 1/2 to 3/4…

Ah, here we are, wide awake, 7:50AM, and David is posting cars that aren’t just rusting — but also completely inaccessible.

So the plan to avoid contact with the corona virus by avoiding contact with the outside world includes (presumably) eating food that was handled by people in the outside world? Solid plan.

I actually almost got married there! Ah to say my oath to my husband with The Cars as witness. Sadly it didn’t work out, but I’ve been many times. It’s super cool.

Nope, I’m totally buying a used late model Lexus so I can steal lawnmowers more efficiently. 

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I absolutely guarantee there are dozens of hidden issues with this thing.

12 hours of labor? More like weekend worth of kerosene for the garage heater and three to five busted knuckles.

I had one of these as my first car. put 200k on it and only replaced an alternator, clutch, timing belt, and 1 window regulator($35). Mine was reliable but when even slightly neglected, most were not. I knew a few people who blew the engine or turbo from oil starvation

If you can wrench, this is a helluva good deal!

People rarely like admitting that they made a mistake. They like admitting it even less when it means they wasted money. They like it even less than that when the amount of money they wasted is obvious, incredibly conspicuous and a status symbol.

Exactly. I don’t know what makes me crazier — that people can’t enjoy a good sports car unless they know that someone out there can make it two and a half times as powerful as it could ever need to be, or that this is happening at the same time that 80% of the stories on Jalopnik are about new SUV offerings from…