Judging by the workers and trucks around it looks like they’re still finishing it up

In this case, he attempted to get the fire dept running.

Think of this way: DT is the gas and I’m the brakes. On second thought, that is a poor metaphor for the situation— and hopefully not foreshadowing. There are plenty of opportunities for fire with FC Scurvy and there are zero brakes to be had. 

I am watching, observing and documenting...there may be a reckoning...

Thank you! DT asked me for a top and after realizing a hand sketch or photo collage just wouldn’t get the base urgency, I realized I had to use the design language made just for stupid shit like this. The panic language of emergency signs.

Is Tom documenting this for a future article from HIS point of view? If not, you better get him on it now!

I would’ve slapped it to the bottom of an Amazon delivery truck  or even better yet a semi that was from out of state. 

Can we all take a moment to appreciate just how well this image summarizes the entire article?

Jesus, dude, when we all told you on Tuesday to kill that Jeep-shaped pile of mouse shit with fire, we didn’t think you’d take us literally.

We don’t need to, because as stated earlier, our cars are sold to Eastern Europe within 5 seconds. And really old cars end up in Africa through some wholesale buyers so it’s literally zero effort for Western European car owners to get rid of their cars. 

At least until a car turns 25, then you register it as 'oldtimer' and taxes and such drop quite significantly, at least in Belgium

Though I’d bet if the absolutely asinine 25 year rule didn’t exist and we made it 10 there would be a massive industry in the UK/EU to prep cars for export back to the US

Japan, and some (not all) of the EU countries have this in parallel. High standards of maintenance (ie lots of parts checked annually), plus high repair costs, and high taxes (usually emissions-based), means that the cutoff point for a car becoming uneconomical can happen much sooner.

2 things:

I’m in for $500 if he’ll stop and take the FC to the junkyard. I once found him a rust-free FC in the desert and he thought there were too many problems. It did not have an engine, a rear box or a title. All of those things were fixable compared to this apparition. 

To make a 54 look like a 64 they would also have to graft in the bigger window that debuted in 1958 and add turn signal indicators on top of the front fenders. And larger taillights and license plate housing. And probably get a new engine cover to get rid of the Pope’s nose.  And the bumpers would have to be updated. 

Chrome off would be ideal. Never mind that if you sprayed that pattern, with those overlaps, using that gun, you’d run the shit out of the paint.

Sometimes a paint job is just a paint job.

I was more concerned/annoyed with the fact that it looks like they carefully masked off the bumpers, headlights, windshield and trim, and the mirror, but skipped the frunk handle and chrome trim - the bit that’s still unpainted doesn’t look covered. Same with the right side chrome spear - unless poor print repro…

The Mini was replaced by a Subaru, that was replaced by a Mazda3, that was replaced by a GTI (which I still have), but I got an S model with no sunroof, lol