For older EM (electro-mechanical) ones, you’d be right but modern ones built in the last 20 years have had a huge resurgence and like cars, do offer some on-board diagnostics that help.

You think car prices are nuts, solid state (non-mechanical) machines are crazy expensive these days - especially for popular titles. New machines start around $6,000 and can go to double that with special editions as much as double that.

Quit your talkin and start chalkin!

Story in the ad is “Dent on passenger side door where my truck rolled in to it at about 2mph (parking brake failed).”

Story in the linked CL ad is “Dent on passenger side door where my truck rolled in to it at about 2mph (parking brake failed).”

138,000 per the CL ad - so yeah on a 10 year old rig about average. Hardly low mileage.

My F150 got stuck on the way down so I had to spend another 8 bucks on a Mirage to knock it loose.

You probably knew this, but the Robocop cars werent SHOs. They were actual police-spec cars with the head-gasket blowinest 3.8.  The grille vents were there to help with cooling when idling.

Being from CA, the first thing I noticed is HOLY SHIT, IT’S STILL GOT THE ORIGINAL PLATES

Drywall/concrete mixing tubs from Home Depot/Lowes are my jam.  Thick enough to drag across concrete without worry of rubbing a hole in them and cheap.  Only downside is if the car has all 4 on the ground, getting them in there can be a challenge - but if I’m doing something like a trans service I have it raised up a…

Mortar/concrete mixing tubs are EXCELLENT to have around. They are huge, come in a few different sizes, pretty sturdy and not expensive ($8-20) at the local big box home improvement store. I have several and use them for transmission/coolant drain pans and loose parts storage while the job is underway.

Looks outside... Weird, but ok.

In the immortal words of Carl Spangler:

I got lucky on a business trip to India about 10 years ago.  Boss went with me and he never flew coach like us plebes.  Got what I considered to be an epic seat on the upper deck of a Lufthansa 747 from SFO to Frankfurt.  Best flight I’ve ever had.

That must have been a HUGE campground!

My favorite part is the Supra almost taking out the car turning onto the street.  The clip will never be not funny to me.

Supposed to be up cookin’ breffus.

Dude.

We’re calling it the Busy Forks.  It will never be “Beyond Zero 4x” to me.  What a bunch of marketing wank.

I thought the same too. I had it confused with the Splash models that were all faresides and had to scroll back up and look at the pics when my brain went “waitaminute”