I hate BMWs. They are overengineered garbage. But this is a good price. NP.

Voted CP. The price isn’t out of whack for the market on these, but it’s more than I want to pay for a base model with a broken windscreen.

I live in coastal SC. What is this snow you are speaking of? And while you’re explaining things, what’s an incline?

Hone it more and send it was my first thought looking at the pictures. Alternatively, since you will be using it to generate content, do the rebuild and write it down as a business expense.

I kind of like this thing. Crack pipe.

Not sure what you mean.

Lemons racing isn’t exactly what I would call normal use, for one. And Speedycop’s team built an ammo can plenum to run a BMW V12 in an 1963 Ford Thunderbird. For two laps. Their hack was one of the godawful excuses for “engineering” I have ever seen.

As a Euro-specialist mechanic who works on cars from the 19-teens to today, you are sort-of right.

Carbs (in the US) worked great until 1975 or so, when emissions became a concern. Car companies ladled all sorts of systems into the engine bay to try and control what came out the tailpipe, with greater or lesser…

Potato photo of the dash. I didn’t have a great camera on my phone when I took this in 2011.

I’m a mechanic at a Euro specialist shop in Charleston, SC. One of out customers has had a Ka for years. It’s not that great. It’s an economy car. Don’t get me wrong, I like economy cars. But I’d rather have something else.

I voted CP.

I love these trucks, and the price on this one is about right for a similar Trailblazer SS. So the market says I’m an idiot.

But I think the current market price on these is wrong. These are not particularly good vehicles. Fast-ish, yes. But terrible quality. Horrible GM plastics, lots of stuff that breaks…

I looked at one of these a few years back for $2k. And I thought that was too much. This is even more CP.

CP, because I am a mechanic at an independent Euro specialist and hate these things.

200k miles is just broken in.

My wife’s car is a 3 year old Civic hatch. We bought it new off the lot. My car is a 20 year old Saab wagon. I pretty much got it for free from my work 5 years ago. It’s on its second cylinder head and third head gasket since I got it (counting the one I put on it to make it run from where the last owner abandoned it).…

Cool. I see 2CVs a lot (I’m in Charleston, SC), but I have never seen a Dyane in the metal. I think it’s the model I would prefer, simply for the slightly better practicality.

if I were a railfan in the Houston area, I would spend entirely too much of my time at the Galveston Railroad Museum. Kind of like I did when I lived in Galveston.

Well, if I go to LEGO.com and add every Technic, Speed Champions, and Creator set (plus the DC SuperHeroes 1989 Batmobile) that it will let me, it comes to a hair under $2500.

So I guess I am spending my wife’s check too.

I wish I had a photo, but one of my customers has a unit similar to the Smittybuilt in his Defender 110. I have yet to figure out why the pictured vehicle in his appears to be a Pontiac Fiero. 

NP at $3k. CP at whatever it gets bid up to. This would look cool parked somewhere in the Udvar-Hazy center, though.

I LOVE IT.

Crack Pipe.