I always wonder how this isn’t mentioned more. I have had my share of black leather trimmed hardtops in temperate climates and the seats get TOASTY.

Like there aren’t a billion hardtop vehicles in the world. What do you have against convertibles, you heathen?

I’m reporting your post to the Root

Bring back innocent blue (with a tan top):

Red is nice and all, but it’s pretty limiting. Can we have a tan top instead? And bring back Montego Blue Mica.

Thousands of corvette owners would disagree

I’ve seen boxsters in a similar combination and I always think “wow that looks good but I don’t think I could do that”.

The more you know indeed! Your way works too, I was just afraid of missing and cutting the frame open. Oops!

Holy Jesus. Ok, so I’m going to go ahead and put myself out there as the dumbass, but every time I cut a rusted bolt, I always put on a thick grinding disk and work on the head. Never have I thought to just put on a thin disk and cut on this side of the bolt. God only knows how much time I’ve wasted.

True Jalops heat their water on a fire pit and wash their cars outside during winter.

Tom, sorry if you feel like I am putting words in your mouth, but I felt the need to say something.

Fancy Kristen - is that you?

Tom is paid by his customers to recommend cars that will keep them happy. He is not paid by Alfa to sell their cars. If Alfa wants to sell more cars, they should shore up their dealership network and spend some time engineering reliability into their cars.

Tom’s day job is being paid by people to get them the best deals on a car that fits their needs. He’s literally paid for expert advice by people worried about making a wrong decision. If he were to push people into a known unreliable product and cover up that fact, putting his own opinions in front of his clients’…

As a new SS owner, I concur. We need more unique vehicles on the road with some character. And sometimes that character has flaws...

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I thought “barn find” would be the quickest way to convey “neat old car that was sitting hidden and unused.”

you must be new here

We need more Smokey Yunick types in motorsports.