Anyone who isn’t Me.

Most people say I’m the friend they are scared to drive with - mostly because I’m not timid or afraid, I know the rules of the road, and drive according to them, and with the flow of traffic around me.  Which you know, is too much for about 98% of people I encounter in any given day while driving.

“However it’s not that bad combined with the lane sensors, cross traffic sensors and backup camera.“

-Remember when these options where there to overcome naturally occurring designs that had poor visibility, like large vehicles?

Yes, that is exactly how I feel in them..

When I tried to check the blind spot over my left shoulder all I got was a face full of B pillar.

Who needs visible sight lines when we can just use that fancy
ass-camera they stuff in every car now?  Turn that off, and lets have the guys back up their cars again, and check the results.

So much for your assumptions - and stop pretending I’m using “perfect” as the top tier metric. Stang and Challenger ARE easier to see out of. And whinge about adjusting mirrors all you want kids, there is no mirror on the planet if properly adjusted that shows you your blind spots - that’s why they’re called BLIND…

Friend of mine worked for GM at the time they released the new style camaro. I got to sit in one of the production mules months before the car was officially launched. I remember how claustrophobic it seemed, how poor the visibility was, and how you sit so low in the car, but everything else about the car seems like…

Keep intentionally missing the point - clearly you have the time to fix your own car - so that is all your opinion encapsulates, it ignores that people who may have all the same knowledge and ability as you, simply choose NOT to because their time / piece of mind is more valuable to them than it is to you. Good for…

2008: Auto Makers attack unions, wages, pensions, and benefits in an effort to not go out of business. As those things stagnate or protections are removed for the workers, the prices and profit margins of vehicles skyrockets. Banks, also let off the hook for their sub-prime lending - turn around and basically do the…

I.
AM.
SHOCKED.

/no, not really.. have you read his stuff?

“I speak for myself.” Do you?
Because you’ve suggested that we’re all too busy watching TV.

There is NOTHING at all wrong with people not wanting to do this sort of work, for price, piece of mind and or time. You are not the arbiter of what peoples time and piece of mind is worth to them.

Get off your pedestal.

Why do you assume that peoples time is worth nothing? Because that’s the only way your financial advice here makes any sense. As if I can change a head gasket in 5 seconds or some shit.  

Notice how no one ever brings Musk into Space-X articles? Generally, speaking articles on this site about Space-X are met positively, and Musk’s antics are never allowed to cloud their efforts and accomplishments.
But, There’s no risk to fellating Space-X around here... and thus low reward. Tesla on the other…

I know how to wrench, and I was tired of having to take up entire weekends of my time to do something it takes a mechanic a few hours to do while I was at work on a week day.

It’s a fine answer, but not to this question.

Got tired of replacing head gaskets.

IMHO: All conservatives can fuck off.

My point is: a vette isn’t something you’re just going to toss some bondo and touch-up paint on, like most $6,000 cars that need a little love.

“People operating within a free system can make their own choices.”

And there it is - this sytem is anything but “Free” but please keep dreaming you’re in Atlas Shrugged.

Let me guess who works for a bank or in finance.

I know no one likes math, but really?

According to the math of adding the loan amount and the down payment, the purchase price was $12,588, not $16,000.

“reasonable paint job ”

Fiber bodied Vettes need paint applied by the living decedents of Renaissance painters - there is no “Reasonable” with them. The prep alone
puts “reasonable” well out of the realm of reality for most people that fancy a go at restoring something like this. Chances are the frame is shit or its…