You’ll be able to spot all the Italian owners by the constant folding/unfolidng of the top.

Then they died doing what they loved?

One of these can be fun to eat

Art imitates life, they say...

I hate to say it, but...has Honda ever made a bad car? Sure, they make a lot of unremarkable, extremely reliable cars, and every now and then have some fun ones (S2000, JDM Honda NSX, etc.), but off the top of my head, I can’t think of a bad car they’ve made, one that would turn people from Honda.

Tik-Tok-er...Woman got locked was trapped chose to stay in her Tesla and now has monetized her plight to over 100k views. FTFY

In the article, it says they took the car for state inspection; if they’re like my state (PA), you have to get the car’s emission system tested as part of the inspection, even though they are differentiated.

Gets to point in life where somehow (illegally or otherwise) amasses ten million in gold. Manages to not only lose/forfeit that, but probably have to pay a fine of two million,and most likely, get prison time to boot.

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)