Do you have a mkVII GTI now?

Why not? A soul/personality are essential to any great car. It’s what you remember. I mean, 25 years later I can recall the dry analysis of my Integra GS-R’s performance and engineering, but what I really remember is its personality. It IS intangible, but so are most relationships. If there’s enough good stuff, and if…

Faulty argument. The problem (for some) is the application of the GTO badge, not the car itself. Fine. You can have that. But the GTO was and remains a GREAT car, especially with the manual and the 6.0 LS2, and is one of the few from that era I’d still happily plunk down some coin for. It’s fun to drive, handles well,…

Did you sprinkle it on your ice cream? Did you dip your (licked) candy bars in it? If not I question your childhood (or your adulthood - no judgment).

I mean, a friend just paid $11,500 for a 2015 Honda Fit with 130k miles, so I suppose these days anything less than $10k is a nice price.

Not the first time someone got in over their head with a cantankerous old machine that needed a lot of work and decided to burn it down for the insurance.

Yup. Had a nasty bike crash about a year ago. I was shocked I wasn’t hurt, until about a half hour later when I realized just how messed up I was. I’m sure she got checked out as soon as she was off camera.

Here in Texas, incidents are described as The Price of Freedom. Our legislators (and voters) argue that murder and death of innocent people is acceptable as long as our single most fundamental right, the right to bear arms of course, is preserved. We’ll happily sacrifice (your) kids at the altar of weaponry. We will…

I used a stainless screen for a while, but it got gunked up and no amount of Dawn would release the accumulated oil and oxidization. I did find holding it over an open flame for a few seconds would burn off the residue but eventually the metal gave out. I switched back to the unbleached filters and just pop the whole…

Tires.

I know the feelz. My GTV6's front giubo was immovable for weeks. It simply would not let go of the yoke. Heat, pressure, time. And a big fuggin’ slide hammer, after many, MANY slides. Somehow I managed to not ruin the studs on the flywheel yoke in the process. It was the job that convinced me to sell the car.

My MIL just paid more than $400,000 for a Class B motorhome, which she will park in her back yard 360 days a year and drive 15 miles to the river two weekends a year. She describes herself on FB as an “avid outdoorswoman.” Money well spent.

Also the trickle-down effect. I’m not planning to sell my GTV6 on BaT (although I might), but I do intend to use transaction prices there to help guide pricing wherever I do list it. I’d prefer to just sell to a person who knows they want that specific finicky Italian GT car.

Not many years ago my oldest daughter dumped an entire container of moldy leftover rice noodles down ours recently, which went through the sieve without bring broken down and completely clogged our plumbing all the way back to the main bend. I had to disassemble everything and methodically push out about a pound of…

I hope everyone is ready for the future, because starting in about a year the GQP will begin restructuring our nation to accommodate their version of history and their ideal future. If anyone is harboring the illusion that rationality, reason, and fairness will defeat them... I’m sorry? This country is doomed. It’s…

They could spent $100,000 on advertising and not get the same ROI as giving a kid a $20,000 car.

You can get a decent cassette toilet for about a hundred bucks and a propane water heater with shower attachment for a few hundred. Just make yourself a little PVC and shower curtain privacy screen and you’re good!

I figured it was killed by the barge explosion. All the way back in 1983, that was where my imagination went.

I have to wonder what the ratio of desperate car shoppers actually need a new car to those who are upside down on a 2-year old $65,000 pickup with 18k miles and only want a 2" larger touch screen on the updated model? Based on anecdotes of people i know who are “desperate for anew car” and being Austin are happy to…

I still hold that first season of Daredevil as the BEST Marvel show to date. First season of Jessica Jones is a close second.