I've been thinking about this because my wife's New Beetle convertible is not doing so well lately. There are several issues that need to be addressed and an engine swap would help quite a bit.

It's been around for ~25 years. I guess it didn't just kick in, yo!

Fiat Dino Coupe : Iso Grifo :: Opel GT : C3 Corvette.

Judging by the prices people are asking for them used around here, I doubt you could call it "underrated."

I just picked up a 97 Accord wagon — probably one of the best-looking wagons I can think of. It's on par with the 68-72 Cutlass Cruisers and the E39 touring... I'm kind of proud of it....

They should, but her insurance should have just covered the damage and subrogated it to the state.

Looking at Charlotte Craigslist the trend seems to be:

I'm in a temp-to-perm job that has lasted as temp for the past 18 months. I doubt I'll go permanent. I've accrued 5 PTO days in that time and taking them has been nearly impossible without the implied thread that I'll be replaced before I return. Yes, I'm living in the US. I hope this job lasts long enough for me…

I saw the Lotec C1000 that was neglected in a North Carolina dealership — at the spring 2010 Food Lion Auto Fair

NP at half the price but no thanks for anything over $1500

In 2008 I was a trainer in a call center. One woman in my training class was named — and I am absolutely not making this up — DaBreaka Dawn (Last name). She was born in the late 80s. When I was reading the training roster for the first time the apparition of Rick James appeared in my head, saying "Cocaine's a hell of…

For Henry Ford Day, we should also just wash and eat whatever we find growing in our yards. He did that.

It actually makes you a better driver. A pilot study by the University of Virginia found that adolescent males with ADHD had significantly safer driving habits using the manual transmission mode on the simulator than using the automatic. Subjectively, the study participants also stated that they felt more connected…

These were all over western PA when I was a kid. Seriously — you couldn't go more than a few hundred feet without seeing a subaru 4wd wagon — especially the 81-86 with the wagon wheels. Among my parents' group of friends there were 3 78-80 wagons, an 83 BRAT, an 84 Touring Coupe (light metallic blue — with the…

They seem to be running in the $6-8000 range for a good 380 driver and up to about $14,000 for a 560 SL. Not bad I guess. On the local craigslist there are about half a dozen of them — not bad prices. They remind me of early 80s movies about rich women...

Yup

There was one at a buy-here-pay-here lot in the town where I lived when I was just 18 — about 1997 — it was a silver 88 model with a 5-speed. Awesome little car — I wanted it so badly I almost hurt a little. I mean, just look at it: the shifter had a little plastic cover over the linkages so it was almost like an…

Because John Goodman:

Seriously? I saw the comment about 240 civics and that's cool but why not 240 240s? Running examples can be had for $1000 every day and they're nearly indestructible. Seriously — my last one blew a head gasket at 300k and I still sold it (to a Volvo mechanic) for $800. Plus 240 240s is about the most Jalop thing…

Even though Christopher probably wasn't real, the fact that we honored — as a saint — a guy who was allegedly 18 feet tall and carried the young Jesus Christ across a river on his shoulders is still pretty awesome.