My a/c in my daily beater BMW e46 stopped blowing cold, so I took it to the mechanic. They wanted $2500 to fix it. They said, “Lets fill it up the system and see how long it takes to leak out.” That was... Jan 2022. It’s been over a year. I check it every couple of months and it’s hardly leaked at all. 

Tree Fiddy!

I’m going with the Corvair air-cooled flat 6. It was advanced for it’s fine. Aluminum crankcase and cylinder heads. And it has the amazing(ly weird) belts that turn 90 degrees to run a horizontal fan.

I remember reading a review from Road and Track and it said you could be at a stop, put it in 3rd, pull away and then shift to 6th at 30mph and it acted like a normal car.

There is a sucker born every minute. This lady just bought a 1998 Ford Escort for $289 per month for 84 months.

Screaming Infidelities by Dashboard Confessional

What now?

Someone has to be that guy:

I guess it’s fairly priced for the good condition. The inside is rad. The outside is quirky. But if I had $15k to spend on a fun weekend car, this would never, ever be it.

My mom drove a bunch of different MG cars throughout the 1970s. She had to get a friggin Chevy Cavalier when I was born. So I’d get her a restomod MGB. Either with a modern Honda or Toyota drivetrain and electricals, or a full EV swap. But the EV swap needs to maintain the manual transmission somehow.

I guess if you live in Florida like I do, you could forego the heated seats entirely, or only purchase them in January.

Subscription anything (other than XM radio, I guess) 100% a dealbreaker for me. I’ve begrudging accepted subscription stuff everywhere else, but this is too much.

I have a 1982 Mercedes 300td wagon. Probably one of the finest cars built that year.

1980 Cadillac Seville with the diesel V8.

I was living in Prague and some friends and I decided to go to Warsaw one weekend. We rented a car, some kind of Skoda, and set off. This was 2009, so GPS was an add-on that our cheap asses decided to forego. Bad move.

1:18 Mercedes CLK-GTR. I’ve had this thing for like 25 years. I saved up for a loooong time and bought it from Sharper Image or Brookstone or some place at the mall. I think it was like $100 at the time.

It’s like one of those homemade Garage Sale signs where they didn’t plan well and it’s all “GARage” in progressively smaller letters.

Never missing a chance to be pedantic, I suppose.

Palm Beach International Raceway, aka Moroso Motorsports Park.

Ahh, that makes sense. Even google maps calls it the “Highway to Nowhere”