@NerzzleintheVerzzle: How impressed I am by the friend depends on which foot he's missing - if it's his right foot, there's not nearly so much risk after all in that situation.

@SynthOno: Well, he did offer a correct answer, just not the one you were looking for!

Ahh, Ash puns. Unstoppable as always.

@87CapriceEstate: Would've had to have been lifted. A regulation-height bumper would've been below the windowsills, and below that the car's tough as hell. It's quite good as a sum of parts in a rollover, too, but the pillars aren't as thick as in a modern car and there aren't any squishy airbags there, so a…

@Lotte: Well, I don't think it actually matters which cap comes off first as long as nothing falls in and they're both off, but yep, you got it.

@ChazzyD: I'm daily-driving the car I took my test in, and I love her to bits (Volvo 244, '89, slushbox, blue on blue).

@graveslids: I really don't understand what's wrong with modern cars. A Volvo 240 is only an "unsafe" car by today's standards because of its lack of airbags (aside from a driver's airbag from '90 onward) and safety nannies (later cars could have ABS, though). However, it has remarkably thin pillars and virtually no…

@Psiu! Puxa!: Your 244 is the coolest car I have ever seen!: K-Jet is the devil. LH has only had one problem for me - a bit of electrical resistance created an undiagnosable CEL, somehow; it was undiagnosable because the computer wouldn't send any codes whatsoever. (Perhaps that inability was what triggered the CEL?…

@Grive: Ford Taurus, either 2008-'09 or current-generation. Chevrolet Malibu or Equinox. Buick LaCrosse. Toyota Camry (albeit because the current one, while awful, is marginally less so). Nissan 370Z. Volkswagen Golf. Hyundai Sonata (aside from its styling).

@gravit8...drives with the lights on: I'm with ya, man. And yet, despite that complexity, things tend to Just Work, even when they're getting up there in age. My Violet's a 1989 244, and only middle-aged at 204k miles; I'd rather daily-drive her than most new cars.

@bemis: Nothing wrong with short-shorts on a dude.

@Lotte: I just did it for the first time not long ago - it's honestly as simple as it sounds. Park the car, get a beer, read the newspaper, head outside once it's cooled down (hot oil burns).

@smokin88lx: My daily driver's side mirror doesn't exactly face the outside world properly, as its adjustment lever got kicked into submission by a clumsy friend. I rarely need it, given the 244's excellent visibility, but it would be nice for tight spaces.

@spacewanderer: As a 19-year-old, I'd work part-time, enough to damn-near cover my basic expenses, and I'd live a lower-middle class lifestyle, planning to go to college in another year or so. Any unexpected expenses would be covered by the enormous slush fund spread across several savings accounts, with a fragment…

@Novaload: It's green and black. What does that add...?

@Straight6er: Well, ordinarily anyone who would do such a thing would either swap the formerly-blown now-differently-blown engine or at least strip the shell of usable parts before junking it, so this isn't all bad.

@vavon205: That's what he said. "It happened long ago."

@facelvega: The '90-'93 "last of the 240s" had a driver's airbag, and many of the later cars had ABS. They're better off for their flush window glass and, arguably, later blacked-out trim, but at the same time I'd rather be in a reasonably-safe car without an early airbag that could punch me in the face even when it's…

@joeisuzu: Well, the seats are the second-best thing about that Sable (third best? probably the wheels, which swap right onto FWD Volvos)...

@Novaload: I've seen a similar example as a tow truck. I'd have trouble topping that for coolness.