shaggin’ wagon time

literally any truck you like, and a cargo trailer. Putting a mower in the bed of a pickup truck is a drag.

Look - these Camaros were like boobs in a wonderbra - looks great, attractive from a distance at Beer #1. By Beer #3, you’re really buying the pitch. Once you’re 11 Beers in, you’ve committed and closed the deal, and then it hits.....you wonder what the hell happened to the promise, accept the disappointment of the…

confirmation bias + expectation mismatch = this survey

he likes trains.

sell all that shit and buy a half decent crown vic.  or since this is Jalopnik, and a D.Tracy column, keep doing this stupid plan, and get evicted and more broke.

families with campers and boats need exactly what this truck does - just probably not this truck

the motor and trans will outlive the weight reduction process that this vehicle is surely well down the path of. You buy this truck, and you’ll suddenly realize the real meaning behind “well I’ll be dipped...”

said the same thing a minute or so ago - this car has a distinct place - for highschool kids of Jalopnik readers. All show, no go, doesn’t look hideous parked on the street, passes the ‘not a camry dad’ objection, and who cares when it gets banged up, plasti-dipped, filthy and smelly inside, bird shit on the paint,…

these malaise-turds-in-mouse-fur cars, much like V6 Mustangs from the same era are decent highschool kid cars. All show, no go. Fun to play with. Cheap enough that when they get wrecked, the insurance payout is probably over the actual cash outlay.  This isn’t a Jalopnik car - it’s a car for the son of a Jalopnik.

My Accord 6mt ground like crazy to 2nd if the revs were high and no pause. Drove me nuts. Common to that trans. Still did 176k miles without failing and original clutch too.

crack pipe at any price - those cars are hot garbage not worth wrenching on.

I’d take the Burrick over any of the crap shown above....cheap cars are supposed to be cheap, not moneyholes.

three grand tops.

a moped and an uber account.

decent original runners are under $5k - I wouldn’t want something super fancy/nice - just a not rusty runner if I was going to buy one of these.

actually on my list of Mustangs to BUY - there’s something kitschy cool about those.  Yeah, it’s kinda dumb, but most hobbies have an oddity layered in somewhere.

Nostalgia is a funny thing - someone might actually pay this. But in the end, while this one was THE one to have, and this one is every bit as nice of one of these as you will probably find, we’re left with the simple break-point fact which is this - Fox Body Mustangs are hot garbage even when perfect, in the ‘toy’…

Driving is not a complicated task set. Not crashing is a fair bit harder, depending on the circumstances the driver puts himself into - don’t overdrive your skillset is germane in racing, Mustangs, and your everyday Kia Rio alike.

not to mention what goes on in modern warehouses - very few people outside of the warehouse industry know how our AGV’s and wire-guided stuff has been making their lives simpler and cheaper for DECADES now.