Mr. Money Mustache is patently unrealistic to a lot of people. My wife and I share one vehicle, a Kia Soul that we bought new. We live 20 miles from work and just to get to public transportation we would have to travel at least 11 miles. Then we’d each be on a city bus for an hour to get to uptown Charlotte, and then…

I bought an 88 Volvo 240 for $600 about five years ago. The seller (who was clearly just flipping the car having bought it for under $500) didn’t know how to open the trunk. I found three headlights and an old CHERI magazine.

If I had $70k or so to blow I’d do that to a white diamond edition CTS-V sedan.

I had a POS Chrysler Concorde with the same issue. It had two mini spares and I put them behind the driver’s seat.

Take Rut’s Lost in Transmission and take away all the drama and “I can do this for $XX,XXX dollars bullshit. If it were about restoring cars that people love regardless of their flaws, then it could be an awesome show.

Cuban Chrome

Thank you.

Or a train horn

I have been a vindictive dick from time to time. I am not proud of it.

Based on his foaming-at-the-mouth apoplectic tantrum, I figured I wasn’t the only one he had pissed off enough to do something like that.

The BMW driver is a self-entitled fuckbag who thinks the rules don’t apply to him. I’m with the truck driver on this one.

It’s cheap enough to not give a shit. If the 4wd works then NP all day.

My mom’s first car was a green-on-green 77 Mustang II Ghia with the 2.8/4speed. It was rusted out by the time she traded it on a 78 Bronco in 1983. Still, she learned to shift when my dad brought it home to her and said “you’re driving. Let’s go.” And she's still a damned good hoon when she has three pedals to play…

I work for an aftermarket leather company and we do a bunch of SR5 4runners. At least 4 a month from one dealer alone, and our bread-and-butter are mid-line cars and SUVS. On our schedule today there’s a pair of Sonatas, a 4runner SR5, two Accord Sports, and an Odyssey.

I came here to post this. I got mine in 1988.

I did it and got through it. But I had help and support along the way. Even if I hadn't had the support I had then, I wouldn't judge the op like tyr

In the mid Aughts, I lived in Charlotte and lost my license due to not paying a fine. I sold the car to pay off some of the fines and fees - things escalate when you neglect them - and to get to work 4 miles away (at the time I was working in a call center from 11 AM to 10 PM) , I found that I had about five choices.

Kia. Seriously - my wife and I both had credit scores under 600 and a trade in worth less than $1000 and they were able to get us into a new Soul with a rate in the 9% range. That’s high for a new car but pretty low for a sub-600 FICO score.

Concord, North Carolina... My mom lives about 3 miles from the site of the Jeff Gordon Pepsi commercial.

I’ve told this story on OppositeLock a few times, but in 2008 I had a car I couldn’t drive (no license) and was sitting in my mom’s driveway because it had an expired license plate and I didn’t want my apartment complex to tow it away.