I learned to fly in Hawaii, out of a HNL FBO branch at KOA (Hawaii Country Club of the Air), flying steam gauge Grumman Yankees, which are about 1/2 the size of. Cessna 172.

I suppose my answer to that is that 'nice things' is an entirely subjective world view, as was my initial post.

No Evan, I'm not bitter at all. I have no animus against those who, having more money than they know what to do with, choose to buy more car than they can handle. I did not demean the 0.01%, I just said that *I* (me, the person posting) don't give a shit. As to the ivory tower reference ... here's my front porch, brah.

That 'thing' as you called it is the infamous R&T Cyclops, feared in 1960's racing circuits the world over ... kids, harrumph!

Frankly I don't give a ratsass what the 0.01% drive. Anyone who can piss away three times the lifetime earnings of an average American is no Jalop ... 'Cept Jay Leno.

You're asking thirty large for a car (any car), and you can't be bothered to WASH it, let alone detail it out like a respectable 'WE FINANCE!' used car lot? That says all I need to know sbout this 'deal of the day'.

Haw hard did you air up the tires? Dry desert conditions you should be able to run them at 40+ psi.

All I can say is that I have always owned small trucks!

125 large just to prove that you've got the smallest dick in the neighborhood.

I've ridden a friend's chopper in the long-ago that was much like Dennis Hopper's, except more fork rake, and longer. It was fine on the freeway, but she was a baitch in traffic with the over enter linkage and drag bars, it took a LOT of arm wresteling until it got rolling. But it was sixties tangerine metalflake with…

Subaru Legacy. In 2001 I bought a 2000 Legacy wagon from a used car lot in Spokane, WA after beating them down BIG bucks for HIGH mileage. It had 999,880 miles on it ... it was eleven MONTHS old! My wife ticked over 100,000 driving it home to Whitefish, MT.

I knew the First Officer, and she gave a detailed debreifing at a meeting of the General Aviation Council of Hawaii. Somewhere in the Kinja archives is my retelling, but I don't know how to find and repost it.

S2T holds 1,100 GALLONS of retardant. Don't know the chemical composition of the red stuff, but water weighs 9.4 (IIRC) lbs per gallon, so closer to 10,000 LBS of payload.

I'm gonna dispute Hawaii. Chicken maybe on Kauai, but statewide I'm sure it's mongoose.

Not if they are cared for correctly. Most Subaru HG failures can be attributed to improper emptying/refilling of coolant. If done incorrectly it can leave an air bubble in the engine, which creates a hot spot, which blows the HG. NEVER, REPEAT NEVER allow a grease monkey quick lube place touch a Subaru, for ANY reason.

This, want ... How many $US F.O.B. A port connecting to Hilo or Kwaihai, HI?

There's a special, personal level in hell waiting for the people who did that. And I don't mean just the 'designer' either. The body beaters who failed to refuse to act out this wretched fantasy are equally guilty, and must also be punished eternally. As for the devil, he can't wait to get his claws on that…

Yano, there's companies in the Philippines that make flatfender Jeep and Jeepney bodies in aluminum or stainless steel. If a guy could source the right doner cars, I'd bet they could churn oit kits cheap ... Hmmmmmm.

Me too, but in glass or plastic, and electric.

Back in the late sixties, living in Redondo Beach, CA, we had a close friend who worked at Mattel. She was a psychologist and studied kids playing with pre-release toys, beta testing them, as it were.