2nd Gear: has anyone else’s FB wall been blowing up with Bronco posts lately? Because my friends/family who have been fooled by that Bronco rendering for years (you know the one) and that we’ve all had to shoot down at some point have started giving me shit.

The owner should have spent more time fixing things, and less time trying to squish people’s heads.

Why doesn’t this have more stars?!

wtf with the fingers covering the plate- I mean wtf about even covering the plate? what do we all have access to DMV computers and could then do what? look up where he lives? so we could...steal his crappie car or what...I mean wtf? why do people fear their own license plates?

When you said“moderately impressive physical display” i did not think you were referring to the throwing of the bike.

He got all huffy.

Yup. If you’re gonna put quotas on the sales staff, you gotta give ‘em some tools to meet those quotas. If the price is fixed and supply isn’t limited, you’re pretty limited in closing the sale. Guess it’s time to break out Glengarry Glen Ross for the end of the quarter sales meetings.

Now that the newness has worn off and the “First on the block” ability is gone, Tesla will need to get in alignment with normal selling techniques of their product.

‘77 Chevy Beauville with a 3-in-the-tree transmission. There were a lot of kids in our family. I distinctly remember my mom driving the van with an infant on her lap. No A/C and no entertainment to speak of (well, it did have a 2-speaker AM radio). You had to be careful shutting the back windows, if you got lazy and…

It’s really self-enriching. As human beings should value ourselves and what we do. Creating something we take pride in helps us feel great, even if no one ever sees what we’ve done.

This is less a bad decision, and more a good story.

Most of my bad ideas/experiences involve Illinois. I live in Missouri and the worst was probably going about 3 hours into southern IL for a 62 Willys CJ6 that I was planning on flat towing back. I got there, made a deal and stared prepping it to tow.

Easy - the time I bought a 1993 Dakota off Craigslist. After looking at it it looked rusty but trusty, didn’t see any noticeable issues, and a test drive confirmed that it was driving fine. We agreed on a price (well under what the hell money). He had to “switch the title” and I needed to get money so we agreed to…

I bought a 72 Econoline van for $401 dollars in the mountains of Vermont to drive back to Chicago. I had to haul a bunch of shit back (other people’s shit) and they wouldn’t rent me a truck at the nearest U-Haul because I was not 21, out of state and probably didn’t have a valid license or something silly like that.

Painting radiator fan motors on a Citroën SM.

I thought it would be a great idea to plow throw a 4-5 foot high pile of snow that was piled up in a parking lot with my 98 mountaineer. Turns out it had compacted and became ice. Next thing you know I’m looking up at the stars and come slamming back down. Broke off my belt tensioner that I didn’t realize until I was…

I was young and stupid and had a history of buying turbocharged 80s and 90s Dodges. So needless to say, I sold my beautiful 1995 Trans Am and bought this: