One of my favorite bands of all time. Many a high school day and night were spent driving around listen to Flood on tape in my 1980 VW Rabbit.

They’re in Minnesota, too.

That is impressively broken. Job done, sir!

I kid you not: I took this photo in one of the old kitchens at my company. Notice the open packet. Millennials, man...

Nice Price for a parts car with some rare stuff assuming you have a clean shell sitting around to build. Otherwise, part it out and set it on fire.

I don’t hate this. I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it, and thusly won’t hate on it. Anyway, first-generation Cayennes are throw-away cars nowadays. May as well have some fun with it.

I still chuckle at this, too:

Nine months later, I’m still slightly infatuated with the E46. Other than color – Stahlgrau on grau is a lot of grau – it’s exactly how I would have spec’d it in 2001.

I had my 1995 M3 5-speed, Boston on Champagne luxury package, for about a year, a couple of years ago now. It was a 200k+ mile car I bought from a buddy of mine. A rare car, with about 189 for that year (the only year). Being a southern car its whole life, it was clean clean clean, minus some paint fade on the rear…

That whole “A Night In London” concert that clip is from is beautiful. It used to be on YouTube, but seems to have been removed, and replaced with something else under the same name but not as lush.

Two things:

I grew up with Datsuns, starting with a 1972 510 wagon, and moving on to a Roadster and an 86 Sentra (same engine as this car). My uncle’s family had a bunch of them as well – 510s, 610s, 710s, 810s, Roadsters – during this same era.

Highway?

Are those cool again yet?

So people don’t go to the dealer for regular maintenance?

See my other response re: nobody ever bringing their car to me because it was perfect.

Whenever VW would issue yet another recall for seat heaters, brake light switches, coolant temperature sensors, coils, etc., we’d see all sorts of things legitimately wrong during the courtesy inspection. So even by the low-100k-mile time, there would frequently be many, many items to note.

Dude (or Dudette) – I was a service advisor at a VW dealer from around 2006-2011. My bread-and-butter cars, after Mk4s, were B5/5.5 Passats.

CP.

I remember figuring this out years ago.