If I was going to do a resto-mod on the Studebaker I would start with an ahead of its time ‘55

A bear in his natural habitat. 

Totally needs the Electric Mayhem paint package.

I like E30s and have owned many including a few iXs which still rank in my book as the most outstanding snow cars ever. Currently, I own a Spec E30 race car and I will tell you these cars can take a beating and keep going. Dollar for dollar there is no better classic car you can own that will be relatively reliable,…

Lemme start it:  Automatic trans in an E30 is a critical failure.

The competition sucked too.

People in the late 70s got excited about these sleds because of their appearance in “Smokey & The Bandit,” but the car used in the movie had it’s boat anchor W72 Pontiac 400 replaced with a crate stock car engine; thus the great speed and sound.

The wheels and the screaming chicken really need to be gold for full nostalgia to kick in.

This is a bummer of a car. It’s too nice to restomod, and too crappy to enjoy as as-is. Stick it in a museum, I guess.

Counterpoint: These are better as an art piece than an actual vehicle. There is a saying that “old cars become valuable when they become so pretty that you forget how bad they were” - this car is valuable for that reason, but they are still really crappy cars.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams. 

Sure financial literacy education would be good, but we also need to shut down these sorts of predatory businesses and put the people behind them in prison. It doesn’t matter how much education you make available, allowing these companies to exist will ensure that desperate people will fall prey to their scams.

But it’s gonna take decades for this to happen, per the article. By then, most of those old white farts are gonna be dead.

You’re my kind of scum..! 🥂😎

To be fair, the odometer states 36 miles.

“We reject the notion that there will ever be infrastructure in place to dig up a bunch of material, refine it, ship it to stations around the country, stick it in tanks under the ground, and then pump it into vehicles!” -Wyoming 2018

You may not believe, it, but Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote. It’s called “The Equality State”. No joke. 

I lol’d at Emo.

I followed this auction and I think I understand where the seller is coming from. For the past 2 years, it’s been incredibly difficult to get any cars, let alone limited enthusiast cars. He (or she) puts their name on a few lists and the Corolla comes up. Great—I’ll buy it.

Any “Boner” that’s human-sized is funny.