There’s nothing more accurate about this than a $20 Stanley tape. If accuracy is super important, you buy a NIST traceable tape where they calibrate it and record the errors directly on every individual tape. The only nice feature of this is inside measure, but good tapes use whole inches so you don’t have to do much…

Those who think a $250 tool will impress people more than knowing how to properly use a $15 one

I wouldn’t trust it for trim work, but if you’re a rough framer I could see the utility once you got used to it. That’s all 2x lumber, and you have to cut a shitload fairly accurately. 

People who write insurance claims for a living can measure and photograph an entire 3000 square foot house sufficiently to rebuild it from scratch almost identically in under an hour. It’s very impressive. 

CP because of the aftermarket work, questionable dash, and generally dirty presentation (at least shake out the weathertechs). $10k is probably market. If this was stock and the dash was sorted, it might be $15k. Might be more. 

So everyone that hates on Masi or Max by default and says “he has to follow the rules, blah blah blah, this wasn’t permitted, he should have done xyz instead” fails to grasp that basically anything he did would be against the rules. He can’t unlap cars while there are marshals on the track. There are also very…

nothing like taking a temporary lull in the economy and making it a permanent lull

It’s an unbelievably attractive and muscular car in person. It blows the old one away in the looks department. Just needs a big ol hoop wang

Will the manual supra live up to the initial new supra hype?

Bradley you’re fun to troll because you’re a good sport about it and unfortunately it’s like the comment meta these days. I like your stuff. And most of all, I like that you’re one of the like 2 people left who still chime in on the comment section. Congrats on your project making it yuge

It’s because whatever he does, it definitely isn’t writing

I’d love one of these but a guy up the road does actually have a Venturi 400 trophy so sadly I can’t even keep up with the Jones’s 

This is an absolutely insane bargain for anyone that’s seriously in the market for a RX-8. The owner clearly understands the car.

No. Not normal at all. There is no way a junior reporter could afford 600 square feet in the LES without roommates or outside help. A 450 sf studio, tops. This deserves an investigation.

Yeah, it was a little before my time. I looked into it a little after someone else replied and brought it up. There’s some similarities and some differences. The predominant sentiment of “xyz car will always be worth more than a year ago!” is definitely a common thread, but I do think there’s some broad reshuffling…

When did people lose their shirts? Even after the financial crisis they only dropped 15% and I can assure you that other asset classes dropped a lot more than that. At that point there was a major credit crunch, people would sell their kids if it meant some liquidity. This time around is nothing like that, but I do…

Honestly, the NASDAQ probably is somewhat, but for the DOW people are willing to pay anything for inventory right now, and they still can’t stock it fast enough. Why would the DOW go down? And as for cars, I don’t think the people who are willing to pay these crazy prices are all gonna wake up one day and decide it’s…

Selling for just over double in 7 years? The NASDAQ has tripled since then. The Dow has more than doubled too.

Yeah, I’ve told people when it comes to collectors cars, the first $100k gets you either the looks or the speed, the next $100k gets you the other, beyond that the next $800k is for sound. And after a million you’re paying for provenance. It’s not a perfect formula, but i think it’s illustrative of how collectors chop…

If you grew up with PS/PS2, CP2077 is about as glitchy as the average game on either of those. People just expect better these days. I didn’t let the bad pub hold me back from playing and I’m glad I didn’t.