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    Well, I can because I have one. It was a bucket list car for me, and when one came available locally a few years ago, I found a way to buy it. I even drive it, and take it on long trips.

    I have always throught that half of them aren’t even hooked up and do nothing.

    Kind of all depends on what the tax rate is, no? Down here it’s 6 1/2 %, and I would never dream of leaving only a 13% tip.

    This kind of thing was not uncommon back in my Hertz days when half of our TBird fleet had the same ignition key and all but two had the same trunk key. The lady at the counter would say “You have a TBird in the ready line.” Guy would go out, hop in the first one he saw, and off he went. Happened a couple of times a

    I have done this, and everything was fine. Not really an issue. 

    Last year I bought a 2005 Grand Cherokee Hemi that looked like that. It had 260,000 miles on it, but looked like it off the showroom floor, especially under the hood. 

    Two words. Richard Hammond.

    CP on this because of the price, but all of these comments about the lack of AC make me laugh.

    Looks like a fun car to get around town. I would daily drive the hell out of it.

    Well, could be. My point here is that there was once a time when there was a blue mailbox on damn near every corner. Now they just don’t seem to exist. Where I live, they have been steadily disappearing for some years now. 

    Yeah. I was using Apple maps and trying to find a Post Office. Apparently they are phasing them out in Nashville, for some reason. 

    Well, first you have to FIND one of those boxes. I spent about a hour in Nashville last year trying to find one to put a couple of postcards in. They are getting almost as hard to find as phone boths.

    Funny. I just saw a “Cost of Maintenance” comparison on Facebook. BMW was #1 with an average cost of $17,800 over ten years. The #2 was Mercedes, at $12,900 over ten years.

    Best Subs down here in Florida? Publix. Knocks Subway out of the park, every time.

    Yeah, really normal. I just read that it is snowing in Vegas. When does THAT happen?

    Well, as to that, I am 70 , worked in Maryland, and NEVER missed as day of work because I didn’t have AWD or even FWD. Can’t remember my Father ever missing work because of snow, either, and he worked a good 30 miles away from our house. 

    Ummm. Can anybody say “weather”? The North and Mid West have just been through the worst Winter that I can remember. Who the hell goes out to buy a car when there is a couple of feet of snow on the ground?

    Back in the day, one of our salesmen left the keys in a 428 Cobra Jet Torino. It lasted about 1/2 hour before someone came by and decided that they needed to “test ride” the car. 

    I rmeember back in the day waiting for a new company supplied Caprice Classic wagon. It seemed to take forever. When the dealler finally called me and I went in to pick up the car, it was obvious that they had been using it for the “lunch” wagon. The back seat was filled with old McDonald’s wrappers, etc.

    Unusual for a Mazda. My RX7 doesn’t even use that much.