My favored method was a magnetic key box, sanded to remove the logo. Once it’s been under there long enough to get a coat of dust, it’s visually hard to pick out from the rest of the car.

Gotta set those phasers to unlock first.

Years ago when I had manual-lock vehicles, whenever I went mountain biking I would take just the trunk key off the ring and lock the ring in the trunk.

Have it. Love it.

The rise of the smartphone makes this a relic of a solution.

I have 3 Fords and a Lincoln, and have owned several more previously - probably just because of this feature. Absolutely the best feature, and most used feature, ever in the history of my car ownership. Can’t live without it once you have it.  *pro tip* can’t get locked out of your house if you have this and your…

They can try, but I doubt they’ll get far. Even the original cast couldn’t replicate the enormous success of the first film in the sequels.

Or a step further and get a Plymouth Trail Duster.  Saw one near me a while back in good shape (not pristine), but probably the only one I’ve ever seen.

“Cheap tacky goods of American disposable society leave me no time to actually enjoy anything.”

These are the next off roaders to go wild, so I’d overpay for the best one now, because it’ll pay off in 10 years.

My first car. It is a Datsun 260Z that is sitting in my grandpa’s barn. The goal is to own a house with a big enough garage to restore it, and the sky might turn into the limit once I start. But I’m a millennial and buying property is difficult these days.

I think you’re on the wrong site here

Manual CTS-V Wagon. 

Or maybe we should give bad advice so people set their sights on uninteresting cars. For example :

I really want a 1991 454ss. They don’t seem to be many around and a lot were modded to oblivion.

It would have to be something I’m emotionally attached to, like my first car.

The older VW TDIs have an injection pump on top and in front of the engine bay, which makes service easy. Until the gaskets within fail because the switch to low Sulphur fuel dries them out (which WILL happen). The software only adjusts the injection quality to much, the rest you have to do while HITTING THE PUMP WITH…

Most water pump failures are easily caught by leaking coolant before they die. Usually coolant out of the weep hole is the indicator.

I used that same sort of chainsaw surgery technique to swap the heater core in a 1985 VW Cabriolet. The official procedure started with “Step 1: Remove dashboard” which I decided was not going to happen. Instead I cut out the side of the heater box, slid the old core out, slid the new one in, and glued the flap back…

Fear not! My obsession passion has spread to VWs and to commercial vehicles. A couple really high mileage TDIs, an Audi TT, a school bus, and a manual Passat W8!