Are people still doing that COTD thing? This is the one.

Take your star.

Ford: We’ll use the Lightning brand on our electric trucks.

“nobody actually wanted small sedans and hatchbacks”
Honda, Hyundai/Kia, and Toyota would beg to differ.

It’s a beautiful car and I love the cloth seats, but for that kind of money it has to be an inline 6. ND.

We have friends that bought a Sprinter-based RV pre-covid.  Then a year later they moved into a bigger house with a bigger mortgage and wanted to sell the RV.  They sold it a couple weeks ago for 7K more than they paid for it..

Maybe pre-COVID, but there are piles of shit listed at this price in my area now.

[24 hours later] “Here’s what’s going on with this wheel [slideshow]”

2 things:

This is like making your grandfather visit his local VFW in pink cycling lycra.

Me, while reading your comment

With used car prices these days, this now falls into the range of “it’s nice and working so why not” and just pay the asking price. The 5.5K seems fair enough for decent transportation. I’m not the kind of buyer for this car but I could see someone with some stimulus money, who needs a new ride, going for this as…

An insurance adjuster told me years ago if the bags popped, the car was totaled. Not just the expense of doing the bags, but the fact the car took a big enough hit to trigger them. This meant frame damage which meant serious money to repair properly.

I looked at a salvage title vehicle in ALabama. Rules were

Our cruise was during fleet week. Watch the Blue Angels from a liberty ship; Murica, Fuck Yeah!!!

The size of marine propulsion items is laughably large. We took a cruise on the liberty ship Jeremiah O’Brien and got to spend time in the engine room. All the internals like the crank and rods are exposed. While not big by any means, the size is just so foreign to the scale of a car.  Fun fact, the Jeremiah O’Brien…

first??

That is a mighty fine engine. Mighty, mighty fine.

I voted NP b/c I guess it’s a fair price. But personally, I couldn’t be more uninterested in ever owning something like this.