Likewise! For some reason, I didn’t think the Concorde was even a thing until much later, like early 80's, so to know they were able to pull this off in 73 makes it that much more of a feat.

I have an independent mechanic that I use, partly because it’s SO much cheaper than the dealer (he lets me bring my own parts and only charges me to install them), but also to support what almost seems like a dying art. I get that the newer cars are more computerized, and mechanics have to get (often expensive) trainin…

I like/appreciate the tech in these, though I don’t really care for the design, but if I had 50 grand to spend on this or a Tesla, I’d definitely get this.

Is newer “nicer” though? This car has always been one of my bucket list cars TBH, and to me, the design language, the history, just everything about this work. Like, yeah you probably could get a newer one if you could afford to own this one, but they don’t seem to have the soul or something that this one has.

Exactly. All the work has been done, and you don’t have to think about mileage, so you can...you know...just drive it and enjoy it, which you should have been able to do all along. Also, I don’t have a problem with the wheels or the exhaust; never understood why people think every car needs to look exactly as it came…

There was that one that was centered in VA several years ago, but it traveled up the coast; we actually felt it in Pittsburgh of all places (was in the office talking to someone, and my chair with me in it moved across the floor a little bit!) Initially we thought a very large truck drove through the parking lot or…

I read the documentation over at BaT; it was funny, cause on one hand, Ford said that as the majority of the car was standard 76 T-BIrd, it came with a 2-year warranty and could be serviced at any Ford dealer.

I just watched a video on this; apparenty it was something called a “ship-to-shore” phone, which of course is no longer available. This is one of the remaining cars (one was destroyed during transit to San Francisco), and is all original:

I can truly say I had never heard of this until today. Curious if the phone was functional or for show, or how did that work? (I thought general cellular service wasn’t even available til the 70's, and unless there was a really long phone cord attached to this car, wouldn’t it use traditional land line services?)

Nah, THIS is the 1993 Lincoln Mark VIII you want!

I drove a section of 1 from San Francisco to LA once. After a while of seeing the coast (and going at the lower speed limits), eventually I cut over and took the 5 down the rest of the way. It is very nice though!

(shrug)

That, and Toyota had a very robust recall for rusted frames (I know because my neighbor’s Tacoma had one, and it broke on him as he was leaving work; Toyota replaced it for free and gave him a loaner for quite a while, as it took time to get the frame and actually perform the work).

WE read that wrong lol

I mean...this could have been avoided had they used the proper testing materials:

I like it; when was the last time you saw such clean design language, and in as good of a shape? And personally, I prefer the look of the notchback over a hatchback, so there’s that. And since I’m spending money I don’t have, NP.

Back in 2011, I bought a CPO 2008 Ford Escape. When I went to get it, I had to sign off that everything was as expected during delivery. The first thing I noticed were that the rear seats didn’t have headrests on them. Apparently the previous (only) owner removed them at some point, and forgot to put them back in the…

...yet the people in Texas can’t stop voting to re-elect him; can someone get the memo to them to PLEASE quit re-electing him? The rest of the country will thank you.

This looks like if you asked AI to draw you a generic electric car; it couldn’t look any more plain if it were a blank piece of paper.

Right? The Mitsubishi one I laughed at, cause A) are people aware that Mitsubishi even still sells cars, and B) shouldn’t Mitsubushi be happy that someone anywhere is buying them? No exaggeration, but don’t they only make like 3 cars (Outlander, Eclipse and Mirage)?