You’re talking about what some outlying individual will pay while I’m talking about VALUE as if the two are the same thing when they are definitely not.

That people will pay it doesn’t mean the price makes sense. There was some young woman selling jars of her farts making—reportedly—hundreds of thousands of dollars at 4-figures/jar. Weird morons will overpay for anything, it shouldn’t be taken as an absolute assessment of value.

The difference here is that the ‘65 Mustang was nowhere near this relatively expensive at that time. If it were a hardtop, it would have been affordable to a high school kid with a part time McJob. Fastbacks or convertibles were a little outside that, but still within reach of a normal person. Shelbys were a different…

The possible reasons for it sitting doesn’t address his point that it’s a waste to have something and not use it, especially where having it sit this much does it few favors except for resale to other speculators. This isn’t one of those cars that have ascended to the level of art to justify it as a display piece.

Chances are that they’re not going to drive it, though—much of the overinflated value is in the low mileage. They could get one for cheaper with more miles on it if they wanted to drive it. It also might need some work to be a driver. It might have low miles, but it still has age and age takes its toll on components,…

Before the pandemic and even now to some extent, old 10 and 12-speed road bikes everyone likes to mock for being heavy and ancient are perfectly serviceable and repairable riders that can be had for free or around the same price as a box store POS. Sure, they’re not as “cool” as some fake suspension mountain bike or…

You’re talking kid bikes, but this problem is much more pronounced with adult bikes.

I did the same thing as a kid, but I’m no longer a kid and the point here is that this junk is not repairable. This isn’t just disposable kid bikes that get outgrown in a summer, anyway, there are a lot of bikes in adult sizes. The newer crop of trash uses plastic where even a cheap POS should be metal. There are…

Or the mfgs could just make their subscriptions free to licensed techs. Keep the security and the issue of danger to customers (which is just their propaganda BS) goes away.

The problem is: if it doesn’t go up, you’re stuck with it. In the unlikely event that it does, how long would that take? IMO, you only buy a car as a possible investment if you don’t mind getting stuck with it if it doesn’t go up. This thing is a novelty—drive it once for a laugh and that’s it. Bring it to Radwood…

We had the non turbo auto when I was a kid. Engine blew around 80k. It was a rattly POS. Even if just for some stupid Radwood nostalgia-disease fest, you’re wasting a garage bay on this stupid thing and spending the same or more as a contemporary car that doesn’t suck so much or simply buying a much better, modern…

That was what came to my mind, too. What, he go home to borrow a knife?

They’re very lightweight, so they can support a lot of them—they’d need 18 more Shillings just to get to a pound.

Wouldn’t the captain have now made himself a criminal, something like aiding and abetting?

Yeah, if you can’t be trusted to determine that an empty road is empty, you shouldn’t be trusted to drive at all, but I guess that gets back to low license standards.

I’m inclined to believe that it is a flag pole with illumination lights. An old POS limo that got drunked into a creek would not be surprising to have been sporting a trump/blue line/Gadsden flag on it and the degenerate owner would be stupid enough to want the wretched, apparently twisted wreck back instead of…

I didn’t mean to advocate buying bottom-barrel junk. Things like this Versa are joyless and terrible to drive—they’re a torture every day even if they’re not giving problems and there’s a non-monetary cost in that which I don’t think is trivial. Stepping up even to a compact is a much nicer proposition for not much…

For me, the differences here are that all but the most OTT appliances are a lot cheaper than new cars and you expect to pay less for the appliance you don’t care about, but base compact and subcompacts aren’t what most of the appliance buyers are buying—they’re buying CUVs like RAV4s that are already marked up a little…

I fully understand why people buy the boring do-everything-moderately-well-and-not-have-to-think-about-it vehicle, but what I don’t get is how much they pay for them! A lot of those things aren’t all that cheap and they often load the shit out of them with options. If they don’t care, why waste more money than…

I like cheap and basic, but these were real penalty boxes. Safety and lack of age-related reliability issues are about the only thing they have over any number of decent ‘80s Japanese economy cars with a huge deficiency in feel and character and maybe even a bit of quality feel in exchange (depending on make and model)…