A lot of limits in polite society might be perceived as arbitrary yet are necessary:
* Age at which you can have consensual sex
* Nationwide speed limits
* Blood alcohol content and DUI
* Age at which you can get married
* Age at which you can go die in a war
* Age at which you can smoke or drink
* Movie ratings
* Gun caliber…

My ass walks past the flashy chrome & billet restorations with a quickness to goggle at the Pacers, Gremlins, Mavericks, Corvairs, Marlins and etc. at shows. I’ll even stop and look at a Pinto if it’s nice enough, especially the wagons with the round bubble window. 

While I mostly agree with you, I also imagine you use pomade, love your rockabilly and enjoy the occasional Lucky Strike when your wife’s not looking.
;^)

To each his own. At the end of the day, they’re all just cars with slightly different shapes. Now stop posting about them and go restore one!

When the Boomers die, so will interest in the so-called “Tri-5", the ‘55-57 Bel Airs. I won’t miss them.

Also, don’t pick on the 3rd gen Corvette, all of them are cool, from the early chrome bumper cars to the boulevard cruisers.

It’s on my calendar: “think about men’s size all day”. I barely have time to point out dumb straw man arguments.

Then you don’t know what a strawman argument is. What I did was highlight your strawman argument by making a similar and but more absurd strawman argument.

Also, I did concede that giant trucks are good at towing Space Shuttles and compensating for tiny penises.

You’re making a strawman argument that Toni did not. Your strawman being that cars are worse than motorcycles, or scooters are worse than bikes, thus giant trucks are somehow okay - which is dishonest nonsense on your part. I know that everything is relative to everything. There’s a reason why you can’t go to the gun…

Then you should’ve written “I don’t agree” as your reply.

No, ‘Idiot who sold e39 m5' certainly did NOT read the article he commented on. Toni Scott made a sincere concerted effort to justify her contention that we live in a society where one person’s choices have a very measurable and often bad impact on the well being of others.

I encourage all but my very best friends to make irresponsible decisions and bad-faith purchases. The two friends that rise above that get a lot of grief from me when they assume a mountain of debt for dumb status symbols.

You definitely need a place to put it. They rust at the suggestion of humidity.

I put new tires on our Abarth and ONE day later a hundred miles from home I bumped a pointy curb putting a small hole in the sidewall. It was a Sunday, all the local shops were closed and nobody had the right sized tire in stock, so I said a hail mary and plugged the hole with a rope patch.

Hi Jason! We got ours just before their inexorable rise in value. Mine ended at $6,666 at BaT back in May but below the seller’s reserve. A little behind the scenes haggling and I got a perfect condition Pao with 5-speed, cold A/C, fresh suspension, new timing belt and functional stock cassette deck in my driveway…

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Knowing the mountain of opprobrium and butthurt your 85mph stance will incur, I’d like to include an additional edict:

All cars must be compelled to maintain quiet exhaust systems that can be spot checked with db meters at toll booths or as cars pass sensors in the road. I’m goddamn tired of all the clapped out…

I thought we were “buying into the future” when we spent $35,000 on a Tesla Solar system with more than 40 panels. The experience was ghastly, absolutely disappointing and even after the panels were online we weren’t able to net-meter (be compensated for our excess production) for more than a year thanks to Tesla’s…

Considering how much more palatable to the camera you are than, say ... Hoovie or Orlove, I’d say option #2 “Heated Shop” is the direction you should go.

Looking at it gives me the HRV’s. I understand Adam’s interest in it though, it’s a fresh look from long ago and it’s nice to own something unique ... but it’s really anodyne and not worth importing IMHO.

Wheels from a Lexus hybrid es300h - same outer circumference and the same offset & bolt pattern. Very much lighter than the ponderous steel wheels it came with; the handling went from leaden to willing dance partner.