Is this the Japanese version of the little old lady from Pasadena?

I'd prefer a lighter color also I'd be checking exchange rates and customs costs because Black Smoke Racing has a parts store now. 

Like many of us I'm at work,  although we close early today so I'm following my usual morning routine of reading Jalopnik with coffee while the phones aren't ringing because the clients are on vacation.  So here I am babysitting a backup that failed yesterday 

FWIW Leatherman has made blameless multitools suitable for air travel. 

If I  got hold of one of those I'd paint it like a Seattle monorail and have it run past a model Space Needle.

Serious mode: the combination of 4x4 and a pop top points to a Sportsmobile conversion. An older van is probably a Quigley, although Sportsmobile did their own 4x4 Econoline chassis in the oughts. While a 460 big block does get lousy mileage, the 351W is less bad and some have 6.9 or 7.3 IDI diesels 

Revamp the fleet and road trip. My wife is looking for a small car because she hates driving the Mazda CX-5. I am considering selling it to buy a JDM  van if the guy I know can find a good deal on a Mazda Bongo Friendee,  or a pop top HiAce.  Then we head for the middle of nowhere in comfort 

I would counter that my son’s 2000 Corolla on Amazon sourced coilovers was a bad idea because the ride is punishing.

I must remember not carry my knife if I  fly. A Kershaw Leek is too nice to throw out. 

I guess I can hope for a fire sale, although I'm more the cheap used bike type 

I’ve seen people go vertical using a double decker bus as a food cart. Kitchen downstairs seating upstairs.

If you truly hanker after a fully operational fire engine there are specialist dealers who sell them but they are expensive. I’ve also seen the occasional brush rig on CL for more reasonable prices.

Thanks for reminding me of this. It’s been over 30 years since my last class so it slipped my mind.

This is where you should have a “Remove Before Flight" flag on the ignition.  A lot of motorcyclists use something like that so they don't try to ride off with a disk lock in place. In the old days I'd put tape over the ignition lock if I had drained oil or something. 

IIRC the CIO's mistress was diverse until he got fired for expending his trysts. C leve had some diversity,  above average for circa 2012 tech

Speaking of “international sized” these were very popular with Japanese expats back in the day. Perhaps the Seville was the just right of bigger than anything they owned in Japan but way more manageable than the gargantuan full sized card of the mid 70s.

The "women in STEM" problem is more because most of those career fields are perceived as nerdy and uncool.  My department had a lot of women  mostly sysadmins with a few coders

A Citroën 2CV to understand what a truly basic car can do. 

Consider the possibility the "DEI" has simply proven itself ineffective and expensive.  Equality can be achieved without paying someone six figures to parrot "White Fragility". I worked in a Fortune 100 company's IT for years and our office was very diverse long before the current fad of DEI and ESG. 

I think I will confine my finicky super car dreams to the comparatively cheap FD RX-7