It’s a beautiful example of a well-restored almost perfect 16v GLI. The only question is... Why? As my late father would have said, “This guy bought a lot of oats for a dead horse.”  CP all day long.

As long as you’ve got a decent set of wrenches and maybe a friend to help I reckon you’ll be able to remove the air freshener in not too much time.

The bull bars are another matter!

Bad news, most old super-badass cars will break in many, very expensive ways if you think too hard about them.

oil changes every 1,200 miles.

If you are going to price out the camper why not the bumper/guard and winch. I would say on the low side maybe $700 for the winch and $1500 for the push bumper on the low side. that comes to around $9,000 and that isn’t counting the wheels/tires, lift kit or whatever else has been done to this truck. He is being…

AWD and snow tires are not mutually exclusive.  You can have both.  In fact, both is ideal.

Do we have to have this conversation Every. Single. Time?

The “Ok, Boomer” shit, like a lot of our culture, is stupid.

Eighties Asian, I’d go with a Nissan Maxima. CP for the Toyota.

Really? “JAP BUILT” and “THIS IS FOR THE HIGHER IQ PERSON WHO KNOWS WHAT THE VALUE OF A CAR LIKE THIS IS REALLY WORTH” didn’t sell you?  

My wife had one of these when we dated in the early 2000s. God it was horrible. Everything on it was rusted and/or falling apart. And parts were EXPENSIVE...like BMW money. The one thing I will give it is it never died. It just kept running. The hulking, perforated, shaking mass just kept dragging itself down the road…

yeah, today’s fancy gadget is tomorrow’s base model equipment

I was thinking something else. Imagine a 30 year old BMW where the i-drive system has crashed, and not a single new chip like that has been made in 20 years. Make the digital dash Vettes look like a dream.   Or worse, imagine a 3 if the screen goes back 20 years from now and nobody makes LED displays anymore because…

My personal mechanic is a lazy fuck.

Personally, to me, Dieselgate was not a big issue as the media turned it into. I know cheating isn’t right in any case, but being in the industry, the cheating always existed on many different levels. Another word for cheating nowadays is “Cost-cutting.” If you really need a fun commuter that will be reliable, make…

It’s unusual to find one of these that isn’t festooned with every $2 gimrack from Autozone and a fart can out back. A lot of this vintage Cobalt suffered clearcoat acne, but for a DD this would be fun.  NP

Must be visiting BYU

What is going on with the wife situation here? Are the two wives getting together to collaborate on cracker supplies?  Are they road-tripping together?  Will the video be available as a subscription?

Wow! Rare survivor of something I haven’t wasted two brain cells even trying to remember it ever existed. Obviously been mostly in storage for years, so that will lead to some interesting surprises down the road . . .

I prefer the late 70's to early 80's vintage myself, but I don’t think you can really go wrong here.