This cries out to be a hatch, but apparently it is not.

Also from the Metro press release:

Saw one at a little local show recently. I don’t know about pricing on these, but my gut says this is a bit high. For whatever my gut is worth.

Being charitable, maybe it got sun-baked. Otherwise, red flag. But patina or something worse, why even bother with a respray? If it’s really in such good shape, save your money and wear the marks of age proudly, knowing that its useful life has barely begun.

Another rig in that weird place between too nice to use as intended and not nice enough to win any trophies. So you’re dropping $20K on a crude old truck that’s not really great at anything compared with more modern options. ND.

Now that’s a crossover. As in, I’ll cross over to the other side of the street if I encounter this. Do I even need to say ND?

Is it just a trick of perspective, or is this thing stanced? Anyway, hard ND.

I don’t know, is there a tuner community for these? If so, could be a nice blank canvas for somebody. But otherwise, ND.

My wife and I were on a Capitol tour last month and wound up in line next to a Norwegian family. They asked us whether the Capitol was seriously damaged on Jan. 6, and they recounted how people in Europe basically stayed up all that night, deeply concerned to see how it would end.

Interesting detail.

This is in that weird place where it’s priced for people without a lot of money to spend, but to keep it they’ll need a lot of money. ND.

This is one of my all-time favorite designs...simple, restrained, yet looks like nothing else. I don’t know the market for these, but just the weirdness in the ad is enough to make it ND for me. Is the seller hoping for a real-estate-style bidding war?

Unless there’s something immediately about to fail, NP. With what people make on plowing, you’ll likely recoup the cost before it grenades. And when that happens, sell the plow.

Yeah, that broken top will come down about once a year, and the rest of the time you’ll drive around with something that looks like a Cub Scout’s first attempt at pitching a tent.

I can believe that someone from Lilywhite Flats, Utah might be so disconnected from Black experiences that she didn’t immediately connect the dots. But you know what, if that’s the case, own the ignorance and stop trying to pass this off as a joke. She grabbed that rope first thing, when there was nobody around to…

Assuming it hasn’t been thrashed too badly and you can afford its thirst, easy NP.

Oh yeah, I would do it and embarrass family members, no regrets. 

It does lend some credence to the one-owner claim, as that’s totally something my late father-in-law would have done. And he would have maintained the bus just like this.

I don’t understand VW bus fandom at its most fanatical. You get the ultimate road trip configuration, but you’ll be miserable on any road with a speed limit higher than 50. Nevertheless, this well-kept example will find an eager buyer.

Meanwhile, there’s now legislation to require forward cameras on vehicles because more children are being killed in “frontover accidents” where the driver can’t see the first 10-12 feet of ground ahead. Think about that. We’re now talking about cameras to see in the direction we generally look out of our vehicles.