Damn... hopefully karma catches up to him one way or another. Anyway, glad that you guys got through it, sounds like you did everything right.

Wow - but weren’t the cops at all interested in bringing charges on the guy? For that matter, weren’t you? Not judging, but if someone put my family’s life in danger like that, and I had a way of tracking them down, it would be my new mission in life to see them rot in prison.

Agreed, he *should* have gotten it, but also should have checked. Options on (used) car listings are a huge “caveat emptor” area. Which sucks for that Lexus buyer as he probably will think about it every time he turns on the stereo. But a great reminder for everyone else: NEVER trust what you read in a used car…

I support all your points (AND your name, Señor Pendejo!), but what rubs me the wrong way about this is the stench of dishonesty I get from the buyer. At best, they mislead Loren in their expressions of interest in the Jeep. They knew there was another interested buyer, and that the seller had integrity by holding out…

Boy, that lady must have been pissed when she finally got around to seeing Rocky Horror

Heh - I guess Pops never taught her the golden rule: “Don’t break two laws at once”.

“...though I do lament the disappearance of that weird triangular rear fog light”

How did you manage get to MA without driving through NJ, NYC, or bits of southwest CT? Compared to that shitshow, MA is Downton Abbey (aside from the actual racing episodes).

Take a star from a Boston driver who recently moved to MD.

As a former Boston driver recently relocated into the DC area, I am appalled at the lack of self-organization down here. Half the drivers are ultra-polite and want to yield their right-of-way at every opportunity. And the other half are straight out of NYC. I can deal with either extreme, but together?  Chaos.

A star for your correct opinion, and extra credit for making me re-read the ad in the Mr. Regular voice. "OH THAT’S THE MUSTANG GT500 WITH THE TREMEC 6-SPEED MANUAL”

Ah, that explains why some mice decided to feast on the electrical harnesses in my wife’s BMW. Thank God for comprehensive insurance.

Alas, the only thing the Roxor had going for it was the fact that it was basically a legal new off-road CJ (until the lawsuit killed it). But they priced themselves out of the SxS market, and if I really want a CJ, at that price, I’ll get an original.

All over the US, huh? They charge you $500 and give you motorcycle plates from VT or some other state with basically zero rules. Then you’re on your own getting it legally registered in your own state. Or you keep driving it as an out-of-state “motorcycle” until you get into an accident or are pulled over by a cop…

Except they paid for a perpetual license to build that exact vehicle. And they were selling it to a completely different market. Nobody considering buying a new Wrangler would decide to get an offroad-only CJ clone to save a few grand. If anything, it was competing with UTVs, a market Jeep isn’t even in.  Your China…

Haven't seen Blues Brothers?  WTF is wrong with you?

Ooh, Vette! First ever real-world street driving sim (or as close as was possible back in the day). That’s a genre that I’d love to see come back with modern tech.

Jesus Christ, where’d you get that Cadillac!?

“With appreciably thinner air than earth...”

I don’t recall dot-matrix printers having much of a smell. But if you’re old enough to have gone to school before the early 90s or so, you’re probably remembering the sweet, sweet smell of freshly-printed mimeograph paper. Any time a purple-texted test was handed out hot off the “ditto” machine, we would all take a…