So Vanilla Ice was not, in fact, rolling in his 5.0 with the ragtop down so his hair could blow?

My parent’s plan was to give my older brother their Renault Alliance when he got his driver’s license. Within about 2 weeks of him getting his permit, the timing belt went, and since it was an interference engine, so did the engine.

They ended up buying him a used Chrysler LeBaron sedan, which became mine when I got…

I make an annual trip to Florida every year to sell at the Orlando Hamcation ham radio and electronics show, and I have to stop at South of the Border.

Yes, it’s a rundown dump full of cheap crap, and mildly racist. But it’s also a part of Americania, a tribute to goofy roadside attractions from a time before chain…

It’s to make up for the fact that now U-Haul has to pay to get the truck back to the original city where it’s in demand, instead of having a bunch of trucks in a city where nobody is leaving.

It’s not there just to fuck people over, it’s there because it’s more expensive for U-Haul to provide those kinds of rentals. 

I was thinking a Pacer with the front end of an Avanti. 

I hope this means the price for unmolested vans will eventually come down.

I use a cargo van for it’s original intended purpose, carrying cargo.  My side hustles are selling on eBay and at hamfests (ham radio/electronic swap meets).  I currently have a 2012 Ram C/V (the cargo version of the Grand Caravan) that I hope…

Safari was the GMC version of the Astro. Savannah is the GMC version of the Express full size van, as well as a great name for a stripper.

I’ve done the opposite, which isn’t quite so dramatic.  Left a case of soda in the back of the car in winter, they froze, expanded, and formed a sticky mess in the trunk. 

They are available in the mid-level Big Horn (or the Lone Star in Texas), but yeah, not on the Laramie or Power Wagon

To be fair, two of the vehicles in the Ram lineup of 8 are cargo vans, which are almost always white.  Commercial buyers usually aren’t looking to look cool. 

This. Very few people are like “OMG, I want a car in greyscale”, but very few people are also like “I would never buy a car in greyscale”

The fact that I was able to get a unique color was a big part of my decision to buy a Ram. This is Hills Green. Random people compliment me on it. So far nobody has told me to drive off a cliff.

People also forget that millennial covers people born in 1981, who are nearing 40. It’s not just broke recent college grads, who are gen Z or whatever 

I used to have an old Plymouth Voyager that at one point had issues with the BMC that would cause the headlights to randomly come on while it was parked and turned off with the light switch in the off position.

The thing is that they are not actually $13k. The Shelbyville price includes a $1000 for financing through them and a $2000 trade credit that requires trading in a 2013 with less than 90k miles. Plus a $500 first responder rebate. Plus a bunch of other rebates that probably have very specific requirements.

It clearly is not a Chrysler Town and Country minivan, since the song came out in 1988 and the Town and Country minivan didn’t come out until 1990.

They could just buy some more Metris vans with the Mercedes logo swapped out. 

The guy who was driving appears to have a long history of drinking and driving arrests. At this point, it appears to be more likely to be “drunk driver doing drunk driver stuff” than “terrorist incident”, unless some other info comes out.

From the Dispatch article:

Except HB445 is not actually a law yet. It’s still in committee. It hasn’t been passed.