As a lot boy on a Toyota dealership in exactly that period, I would recommend against the Cressidas. They and the Supras had the most trouble prone electrics of anything on the lot and that includes the trade-ins. Leave them parked for a week and the Cressida batteries would just die. There were so many systems always…

‘78 Civic with the Hondamatic.

Sell half your belongings to fund a WaxOyl campaign for this thing and it might be okay. Toyota rust protection in the 80s wasn’t great. This one being as solid appearing as it is suggests it’s had some rust protection done, and maintained, since it was new which gives me hope.

It’s a manual Camry from when Toyota was earning its reputation for reliability - not resting on it. It’s a practical, roomy-enough sedan with plenty of trunk space, modest economy - I reckon it’s as economical now as it was when new - and a pleasantly uncomplicated interior. CLOTH seats, people, this is how it’s done!

GOBLESS GARY!!!!1!!

Ah. I hadn’t considered that circumstance and I think that is actually both doable and reasonable. It’s one thing to run the numbers and say, yep, if it was just an empty ship we could do it; pushing a flying fuel tank SSTO both counts some coup - SSTO is flippin hard, yo - and gives real world practice at reentering…

I saw this and had to marvel, just how corrupt is the police force over there?  How poorly protected are the people?  And now, reading the article, I have some idea: very.  Like, Venezuela-level corruption.

Rust stains

When the mighty Saturn V launched, it was the fourth-tallest structure in all of Florida

Not from Earth it can’t, no. Earth’s gravity well is just a tad too deep for a Starship to hit orbit in a single stage.

The Super Heavy is a booster; it’ll have 28 engines but won’t achieve orbit. It’ll do the heavy lifting to kick a Starship up and out of the atmosphere and then land downrange, possibly on a barge the size of the Nimitz.

There’s no way in hell I would drive it - let alone buy it - but someone absolutely will and that price is going to be no problem for them. It’s a dog’s breakfast of parts and I have to wonder at its title status but it looks competently done; the back window treatment gives me hope for it.

Think for a moment about the Model T Ford. Think about how “Ford elbow” was a euphemism for the assorted injuries caused by its crank starter. Think, if you can - it’s a mindbender for me, I assure you - about its shifting mechanism.

He didn’t “figure out a way,” he lied and cheated.  And all over a $250 parking permit - does it cover the whole year?  That’s only a buck a day.  Piker.

That’s why this kind of thing is what you see in a museum. You’d see a Bugatti on a temporary loan but what’s in the museum’s permanent collection? Hoi polloi workaday beasts of burden and historical touchstones, that’s what. The Smithsonian has, tucked away in its many Caves of Wonder, the Budweiser Rocket and the…

I stand by my statement and will not be moved. I am right.

As a museum piece for a collection I’d say it’s worth about $25,000, maybe more. Not only will you never find a nicer one, this is literally the only one that can be described as The Last. As a daily driver in its essentially new condition, I’d say it’s worth the $14,000 mentioned in the article; looking at the BAT…

Every bit of that would be 100% true and verifiable.  

If you suck, you should be called out.  If you are called out, do better.

“...or break down near Minneapolis...” This guy is clearly one of us. He knows Tracy’s reputation well enough.