Exactly! I love the boxy little second gen.  My parents had a well equipped 88 with the new for 88 V6 option.  I loved that car so much when I turned 16 two years after they traded it I wanted one and ended up with a 90 DX as my first car.  Going on 27 years later it’s in my garage still AND that 88 my folks had…

In WV that would be the case.  3 vehicles over 20 years old and I paid less than $10 a year.  One of those was replaced last year so I expect it to go up a considerable amount although the new one is a 2010.  Here they base it on a percentage of the vehicle’s estimated value which decreases yearly. 

Most people probably wouldn’t consider a 90 Camry 4 cylinder cool, but part of it was the fact that the day I drove it home it turned over 120,000 miles and people were shocked my parents even considered a car with those kind of miles, this was 1995 in rural WV so most of the folks around us had American cars of the…

I’m 43 and still have the car I got at 16 so...

Yup.  In my state once a vehicle hits 20 years old the property taxes are a little over $3 a year.  

Same.  Also advisable to be cautious when putting your finger in the filler hole since there’s a chance the threads could be sharp.  

Amen! There are plenty of things I’ve done and once the job was finished have said “Well if I ever need to do that again, I’ll pay someone!”

Also, I’m glad your Pontiac is OBDII, out of our 5 vehicles, only 2 are new enough for that.  OBDI is using a jumper wire and counting the blinks of the check engine light with the key in the run position!

I appreciate your journey into this. I figure depending on where and when you grew up many women never got to get under the hood because of it not being a thing women did. I’m 43 and have been under the hoods of cars since I was a teen. I got good enough, my dad has me work on his older vehicles. But my partner is in…

I voted for Stein in 2016, but I live in a small state that has in the last 20 years swung so red, the paltry 5 electoral votes it has were already known to have been for Trump.  I would love to see a viable 3rd party in this country, but that movement needs to gain momentum in states like mine, not swing states that…

His last two challengers were certainly full-batshit, and that was before we ever heard of QAnon.  The next one will make those two chuckleheads look good in comparison, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see one beat him at this point.  

I agree in general.  My old Camry with snow tires had almost no trouble, even in the hills of WV.  For years I had traditional 4WD vehicles, most recently an F150 and I would only engage the 4WD if it was really bad but I had snow rated tires on it.  I wanted another pickup, but the market for trucks is nuts so I…

Huntington? I live in one of the less Trumpy areas fortunately. I see a little of it here and there, but overall not much. But I also don’t travel outside my area much, especially since I started working from home.

LOL, never said anything about organized crime. Manchin’s family is also Italian, but like many who passed through Ellis Island (including my family), their names were altered when they entered the US.  His family name was Mancini originally. 

Oh, I’ve lived in this town in the shadow of him and his family my entire life and know it wouldn’t but it would at least make me feel better.

I will agree there isn’t much along I68 until you’re almost in MD/VA.  79 to Pittsburgh has a lot more to offer.  I despise going to Morgantown and avoid it as much as possible.  

Nope.  I’m thinking in his face calling him a no good motherf##ker.  I’m a short, loud, hot tempered Italian.  

Exactly!

It’s more about the fact his car is worth over double the annual household income of his constituents.  

Nope. Nor Lexus, Infiniti, or Acura.  There is at least 1 BMW, Landrover/Jaguar, and a couple Mercedes dealers but nothing more exotic than that.