Yes, but other people just enjoy wrenching on cars. I make more than dealership labor costs but if you ask me what I’d rather do on Sunday morning, work or wrench, I’d be under my cars in a second.

My old man had a friend like this with a 68 Dodge Charger. Without fail every Sunday, open garage, get to operating temp, down driveway, back into the garage.

Conversely, owning a Sixties muscle car is a great decision. Parts are dirt cheap. No surprise, all the 2nd gen Charger sheet metal is available from the aftermarket. You work on the car, there’s plenty of room. It’s old, so there are no electronics to glitch—it’s an utterly basic car even Grandma could get running.

I accidentally clicked towards the end, right at a part where a dude in a Dio t-shirt is resting his Miller Light on the bodywork of the 348.

Bethesda... oh how the mighty have fallen.

Haha! Yes, adding a 100 horsepower motor to a 755 horsepower motor will result in an 855 horsepower engine. Whether you add the 100 hp by connecting an electric motor to the supercharger or by adding a 100hp electric motor directly to the crankshaft.

You must be kidding. California has the strictest laws for cars and all sorts of noise and BS rules that aren’t present in basically all the mid-west and South.

I can’t stand it! I know you planned it! 

“Wow, amazing. NONE of the Citroen trucks lasted more than 3,000 miles and they all failed catastrophically! Congrats on the sabotage.”

And, with BMW eliminating dispsticks in favor of electronic level sensors in the late 2000s, the Germans have been able to turn around and play the same trick on many unsuspecting owners!

Idk. I just watched an electric F-150 pull 1.25 million pounds of train this morning, so I think you’re being a little pessimistic.

I’m afraid it’s going to be a STEALTH/Battlestar Galactica situation. Navy is phasing out human pilots for drones and advanced tech. Maverick is one of the last holdouts who can fly the old stuff. Cyber attack takes down the drones & high tech fighters, leading them to break the antiques out of mothballs. Cue the…

My wife’s ‘15 manual had a recall just a few weeks after we bought it for the ecu to be flashed because its shift points were wrong.

This is a big reason I buy manuals—the greater reliability 9/10 times and having a back up starter (though, the latter isn’t as necessary nowadays). I drive sometimes several-hour commutes in Boston traffic. It doesn’t suck less with an automatic. I think the problem is that people want to drive like all the other idio…

Cool! I have a ‘66 Ford Thunderbird, and it’s my (sort of) daily driver. I’ll probably give it some cosmetic restoration, since it has some dents and rust that I want to get rid of, but even if I restore it so it looks really nice, I’ll still keep driving it, because dagnabbit, it’s a car and it’s meant to be driven.

Please, I have the script right in front of me.

sounds more like an Iron Eagle sequel than Top Gun.