I was an early buyer of the 1984 CRX. This was an $6000 car back in the day and the Honda dealers were padding $2000 onto the price back then. So, correcting for inflation (and my vaguely remembered numbers from 1984) I’d say that a $5K markup would be business as usual.

Obligatory Simpson’s reference:

I had a 88 Barbados yellow CRX SI, that I got new back in the day. I finally totaled it after much hoonage within a few years. I really miss that car.

The guy’s a casual gamer who happens to have a lot of money, so he can afford a nice card collection. Putting him in a large tourney (as opposed to your local card shop) with a bunch of hardcores will provide the expected result he got. No big deal, he had a good time and helped advertise the event.

As any good pusher knows, the first one is free. Then after you’re hooked, that’s when the money starts rolling in (or out in your case).

Gotta put the Baseketball clip in for this:

At $300, I found one vehicle in all of San Diego that was listed as running.

If we’re not talking major cities, I’d go with any small town near the oil fields in Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, you get the idea. Nothing but V8 pickups. 

Those look like MG As to me.

dark green (‘66 mustang), tangerine/lime green (repaint), red, yellow, silver, black, red, blue, black, red, champagne gold (beige), silver, blue (‘92 civic)

Yeah, even though I should know better, I got caught on this one recently on a trip to Seattle. It appears all of them do this, as the next time I used another rental agency and they tried the same thing, except that time I asked about the price and they admitted it was more.

- Best sports sound (#10). I watched the Larry Holmes/Mike Tyson fight back in the late 80's and Tyson catches him with one of his haymaker hooks. I remember the sound to this day. You usually can’t hear a boxing hit over a television, but oh man there was a big WHAP! and Larry takes a couple of steps back as his…

Since I was a teenager like 40 years ago, it would probably have to do something with spending all the money I could come up with to buy old Ferrari(s), park them in a storage facility for 20-30 years, sell them, then retire.

Our 2001 Tacoma has gone through 4 door handles, because the cheap plastic keeps breaking (probably for the similar reason of the latch mechanism getting harder to trigger over time).

Best cameo? The one I remember best was Sean Connery in Time Bandits.

That’s not a broken suspension, that’s a suspension that’s actively trying to kill you.

I sometimes put the whole shelled peanut in my mouth and suck off the salt, then take it back out to open it to eat it properly.

He did mention that he had bought a house for his dad, right?