My family’s 1978 Mustang 4-cylinder was rated at 88 horses. How did they manage to do the same with more capacity?

My grandmother hated to drive, but had to own a car for the sense of freedom. If she had lived into her 90's, there would be 1980's vinyl-top, two-tone gold/beige LeBaron sedan with low miles available.

You can use the starter fluid on the interior to “get things started”.

But I thought old metallic green with four doors was next best thing to an old, brown station wagon! No manual trans though, so I guess not.

I’m curious. What makes your Mazda5 worse than this thing? There’s a whole crowd of enthusiastic Mazda5 owners out there. Has anyone ever been enthusiastic about a GM minivan after owning it?

They also nod and say “yes” to whatever the CEO asks. And then they take their suitcase of money and go back to their private islands.

You all complain about how boring everyone’s car line is, and then you pan this like everyone went insane! I can’t speak about the TypeR yet, but personally, I think the Civic Si looks better in person than in pictures, and is a refreshing change, whether I’d buy one or not.

Do people realize that if it’s not their style of car, they may simply not vote? Voting ‘crack pipe’ just because it isn’t your style doesn’t mean it’s a crack pipe! If white gold give you a rash, that doesn’t make it an awful investment. Do we need to spell out reasonable rules to this game?

Automobile escalation. You have to be taller and heavier than the next car, or they make things unsafe for you. (Sad face)

I believe this is a case of “price skimming” or “anchoring”, where they set a high price, so a purchaser can later be pleased when they “get a deal” at $50k or less. Crack Pipe as it is.

And your shifters will have super light touch and a short throw, since you’ll need to shift those four transmissions simultaneously with your fingers.

Your tar soaked paper pipes are from the 1955-1070, and is called Orangeburg. It seems like cheap crap, but ours lasted 50 years. Unfortunately, when it fails, it fails completely. Never connecting to the sewer sounds like a cheap contractor, not the former owner. There is no clean fix for any sewar pipe. (Not that…

Your sewer drain going to the main is either iron, terra cota (clay pipe), or Orangeburg (paper fiber embedded in tar). All of them will fail if a tree root takes hold. All of them have a working lifetime of 35-50 years. We had to “fix” my perfectly good Orangeburg pipe, since when it fails, it collapses like a toilet…

You do realize your skull is not nearly as soft at age 6 as it is at age 2 or younger? And you actually have some leverage to keep yourself on. I see this as a “no excuse” situation.

If the kid fell off, he’s probably “that dad” who would immediately say, “You stupid shit! It’s your own fault for not hanging on!!!”

I haggled the dealer down another $500, and then I wasn’t so pissed-off when the OEM tires were shit on wet and snow, and I had to replace them within a month to get through the winter safely.

If they had large construction barrels, and then went all skinny with a gap like that (as the image implies), I can see where it ‘could’ have been an honest mistake. If there was a line, then he/she should have been patient.

I had an outpatient procedure with a ride home. The next day at work, I felt like punching people and telling them all to F**k O*f! This is not like me. A nurse called me toward the end of the day to see how it was going and I told her. She said, “Oh, that’s a common side effect of the anesthetic!”

The “subtext” is, “This road is safe when used at legal speeds.” “We are professionals who know that the extent of this crash is not normal for someone going the posted speeds on this road.” “This driver was therefore behaving recklessly, and we’re glad no one was killed. We wish we could have pulled him over and…

Did his great grandfather fight for the North or the South, because he can always get pissed about that as well.