“The (brand new) Camry interior actually fell apart on us while we were evaluating it. Like...parts that shouldn’t fall off came off in our hands while just doing tactile evaluation on the awful hard plastic the dash was made up of.”

Hell yeah! As a kid I was constantly in airports due to my fathers and grandfathers work and was obsessed with airport service vehicles and am old enough to remember some of these things.  Cleveland Power and Performance is resurrecting an old Jetway.

The idle and run time on the motor have to be huge. 39K miles on the tarmac where the speed limit is 20 mph max.

Cant wait until the FSD (Full Self Drinking) beta turns into a Fcuking Spillage Disaster.

I dont have any serious regrets myself, but one of my dad’s swaps pains me to this day. When the gas crisit hit in the early 70's - he went from a 1969 Chevelle SS to a Vega wagon.

My 2011 Ram decided after 210K that it needed a new camshaft. To replace the truck with a basically equivalent new one was 55K. Sales tax alone would have been $5100. Nope.

I think I know what you meant but this stopped my uncaffeinated brain dead in it’s tracks:

Most RVs are built in and around Elkhart Indiana and there are a lot of Amish employed by these manufacturers. There are also a lot of non Amish there and both segments build them to the quality standards the manufacturer will accept.

But don’t buy one without having it inspected.  The very reason why you said buy used is the very reason why you should have an independent inspector look at the thing.  We looked at more than one that looked good initially but were found to have bandaids over hidden gunshot wounds.

Wife just sent me this with “probably about the same build quality as a real one” https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/producers-pride-camper-tractor-chicken-coop-8-bird-capacity

Now THIS headline would have had my undivided attention. SO close to me caring.

We drive to Valhalla, shiny and chrome!

You can’t just abandon it.

because the Dali is “still considered a working vessel”

It was at SEMA in 2010 - small display in a corner but it was funny as hell because the guy who owned the gold Camaro parked next to it was not at all happy to have it there and have it show up reflected in his cars paint!

We bought a ‘99 WJ Grand Cherokee ex-Hertz rental - it had the 4.0L six and about 25K on it. Had it to 200K with the only problem being when we bought it, they put new tires on it and the tire store put matching brand, but 2 different size tires on it. I wound up getting a new transfer case and that was the only…

How quickly the tune changes - about 3 weeks ago the same writer suggested buying ex-rental Teslas...

And this is why we should never have flying cars. If it’s this bad NOW, just wait until you can buy something that legitimately can fly from a BHPH lot.