You asked for it, you got it.

“Anyone have experience with the no power steering? I’m sure it’s fine at speed (maybe even better!) but what’s it like navigating a parking lot?”

On a small, light car like a Miata it’s no problem at all, when your moving, even at slow speeds. If stopped and turning your wheels, a little more effort is required. Note…

And later, “Donald Healey took on the roll of Jensen’s director.”

“The bike looks pretty good for its age and reasonably substantial 16,700-mile odo reading.”
— It’s 15 years old, I don’t think 1100 miles a year is “substantial”.

“Any astute buyer would likely want to look at the tires’ date code since the bike could easily be on its original meats.”
— Not likely, not many motorcycle…

When this car was new the national speed limit in the US was 55 mph

They probably could have done this effect in software (just have it give the appearance of rotating) and it would be a lot less expensive and more reliable.   I understand that’s not the point of a Bentley, but still.

“...you’d just wish they had given the story a second look-over.”

I think you meant to say “... given the store a second look-over.”

I’d be onboard at that price if it was running.  But ND due to too many unknown problems.

“ $8.59/gallon” (pump shows price as $8.59.9 / gal).

This was one of my father’s pet peeves — someone would say “The Sav-A-Lot in town has gas for 39 cents a gallon”. And he would say “no, it’s 39 and 9/1oth cents a gallon.” And he was right. You may as well say 40 cents.  Or in the case of this article, $8.60/gallon.

“That shows the car’s factory MSRP as $22,626, which seems like a stupid good value considering just how much car that bought back then.”

That seems cheap by today’s standards, but the base Thunderbird LX model was about $16,000 in 1991, so buyers had to pay a lot more for an SC. Understandably, the LX outsold the SC…

Don’t blame Texas, there are idiots everywhere.

The Catera was a rebadged Opel Omega, and built in Germany on GM’s RWD V-body platform. Chevrolet had nothing to do with it.

That chrome (or stainless) trim at the bottom-rear of the roof is normally only seen on vinyl topped cars.  Also if you look closely there is a seam above the rear window.  It does look like the vinyl was removed and the roof re-painted.

Motorcycling:  it’s not for everyone.

This is a rare and desirable (by some people) bike, but I don’t think this bike is worth five figures. Also, due to the mods, I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s “museum quality”. Nice bike, no dice price. 
By the way, the dual (not “duel”) header pipes was not done for aesthetics, it is an engineering choice featured…

My dad was kind of a car guy. When I was a little kid (4-8 years old) he had a 1966 Buick Skylark Gran Sport that we took lots of family trips in. It was the coolest car he ever owned.

What power does the government have over striking flight attendants?
Well, there’s this:

Dealer probably gave nothing for this trade-in. Sure, they might have told this customer they’d give him $1000 for this beater, but their markup on the car he bought would more than cover that. No matter how you slice it, the dealer’s not losing money.

Texans pay in $3.50 for every $1.00 they get from the federal government. This makes Texas 25th in the nation for dependency on federal funding.

Source:  https://smartasset.com/data-studies/states-most-dependent-federal-government-2023

Looks like a Taurus, but costs as much as a Lincoln.  No surprise they didn’t sell well.  It’s like trying to get Maserati money for a LeBaron.