I have met Johnny D.
Can confirm the scummy vibes.
I dealt poker to him and whomever he invited to the table he sponsored at a fundraising tournament. $300 buy-in, $100 re-buy, $150 add-on at the break. He thunked down his black Amex to pay for the table for everyone’s re-buys, but it was obvious he wanted the…

I agree with engineerthefuture; I’ve only had a ‘79 Malibu in Robin’s Egg Blue and a small V8. It was a gem compared to the rental Kia Forte that I drove.
Forte.
Strong Point.
Not sure what it’s strong point was....
Steering like a freshly hit squirrel doing that dying-squirrel-scrabble move? Check
Doors that somehow…

Okay. You both have made statements, but why did you ask him to RTFA? What did he say that garnered that type of response?

HFS.
Same sentiment.

Okay.  Been a while since I had a CBT on this.  “Suspicious Transaction Report” was what stuck in my head.  I guess you file a Currency Transaction Report when it is suspicious....  :)

I agree. 10k should have triggered the STR for FinCen, at the least.  The guy should ask if a copy of the 8300 is available.

What about the most irregular of convertibles, the Wrangler?  Get a TJ, remove doors, roof, and windscreen....

These things are still noisy and buzzy, right?  Call me a NIMBY or whatever, but I don’t want that noise flying around where I live.

Yeah, they may as well have a big sticker on it that says “Keep Out”.
I almost wonder if those covers (which have what value?) are there to make you take it to the service department, since you can’t really get in there (at least for the non-wrenching population).

I am old enough to have to have known how to change your IRQ jumpers to make your modem and printer both viable. 14.4 was SCREAMING fast.

But I always blamed AOL for lowering the price of entry.  You used to have to have earned your nerd cred to get online, even if it was only to a BBS.  Suddenly, Aunt Edna is trading…

Not on their own, but you don’t really have Tesla as Tesla is today without the SC network.  Every time Tesla makes a car and sells it (which is easier because of the superchargers), it creates carbon credits.  They sell those to other companies for a shedload of profit.

Just as kind of a joke, there is ONE world-wide standard....

The 12v “cigarette lighter” plug is the same everywhere.

They are not loss leaders. They are, in fact, one of the ways that Tesla was profitable early on. The carbon credits they accumulated with their cars and chargers were sold to (mostly) Chrysler, who was never going to meet their carbon requirement.
It was big money.

Now, if you mean, retail sales do not cover the cost…

Sentra Steve?

Came to say something like this.  It looks someone played with a stretch filter, but forgot to enlarge the face.

Even better: We have more green (solar/wind/etc) power waiting to get on the grid than is currently on the grid....
Now, part of that problem is someone takes 50 acres in the middle of nowhere and puts up a 10 MW solar farm, but the nearest pole is just a transport line and can’t take that much pressure, because it is…

20 years ago was peak JDM and Altezza tail lights :)
I don’t know if it is gentrification, or if fewer people of modest means can afford it.
Take a week off of work, pay for a ton of gas, have a $500 helmet, a $500 flame-retardant race suit (is that required? can’t remember), and everything else to make a street car go…

I remember when VIR re-opened. It was put on the 1LA that year, but no one had driven it in 30+ years.
I was with NASA’s HPDE, and we got the north course (I think BMWCCA got the south that weekend). 1LA competitors were flying in, renting v6 auto mustangs and anything else that moved, and thrashing them around the…

Demon Challenger 170 whatever.... Wasn’t that on a 1-ft rolling start, or something? Are all of these 0-60's calculated the same way?

With very little effort, I am pretty sure a Glock can be strapped to a drone and used remotely right now. In fact, that sounds so “hold my beer”, I’d be a little disappointed with ‘Murica if it hasn’t already been done.

Then I would be sad at my disappointment....