I took one of these for a test drive a couple of years ago. A 135i with a 6 speed manual. It was a really wonderful car to drive, fast as all get out, more low end torque then it knew what to do with. The only thing I can complain about with it is, I have since then driven an e36 328is, and that car just infected me…

This is golden. I really needed a good laugh, thanks for posting this!

As a millennial, I think the seats look comfy and the doors are pretty trick.

The beige iDx concept was amazing in my opinion, I really want one.  I also want it without any sort of fancy power train, just a plain, naturally aspirated 6 cylinder that revs smoothly and is backed by a nice 5 or 6 speed H pattern manual.

Pennsylvania has a law against keeping your trailer hitch installed in the receiver. I have never known anyone to get cited for it but it is on the books. I would imagine the tow hook falls under the same category.

This reminds me of being stuck in a snowy ditch on a school bus. The old army 6x6 wrecker my school district had hooked onto the nice beefy looking tow hooks on the back of the bus. I then heard and felt, “pop, pop, pop!” and looked behind me to see the back bumper of the bus ripped off. The 10 gauge steel bumper was…

Unfortunately, they aren’t, as nobody drives Oldsmobiles anymore unless they’re bargain used cars, hand-me-downs, or they have them confused with Honda Accords for some reason.

My grandparents had an Oldsmobile Silhouette. I remember it being an awesome van mostly because it looked awesome and was pretty darn quick. Apparently theirs had the GM 3800 V6. I specifically remember the super deep dashboard and being impressed that it had cup holders.

Interesting to make your fun car be your forever car. My forever car is a 1999 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight due to its reliability and comfort. Back when I had an E39 M5 I thought it would be a forever car, then I realized that I wanted to change up my fun car to keep it interesting. The M5 became boring so I sold it for…

I have never found an answer to this. I suspect a ticket along with a fine. The driving code for antique vehicles doesn’t spell out the penalty if you break it and of considerable research I have never found someone that had been hit by this problem in my state.

I put it on par with driving a BMW e36 for the fun factor. The Sprite is so much fun to drive because you are always driving it flat out and it handles much better than it looks like it should. I do frequently take the long way home from work in it. I haven’t had any reliability issues with mine, only time I have…

It is a great experience for a young driver to drive an old British car. I am 25 and have been having a hoot with my Austin Healey Sprite. It has taught me that modern cars have way more features then they really need to function. Heck, I have even learned to love the fact that it doesn’t have self canceling turn…

Honestly it isn’t the 5000 mile, mileage restriction. It is that supposedly you are not supposed to drive a registered antique more than once per week in my state. That isn’t to say that I didn’t daily drive my Austin Healey for 3 weeks straight this past year due to it being the only car I had available to drive.

I full heartedly agree. Even the Mini anymore doesn’t look cute and happy.

I am going to drive my 61 Austin Healey Sprite as much as I legally can on antique plates. I also intend on attending more of the weekly car shows than I did year year, of which I got to about once per month.

I agree. It it wasn’t for how much I absolutely adore shifting my own gears, an electric car would be in my life. I bet a 500e would be a pretty awesome autocross car assuming the range is enough to get me to the track and back plus the racing.

The technology development on these cars is very steep right now. Just 3 years later the newer models are considerably better and more enticing than the older models. The result is heavy depreciation for the models that are not the newest and greatest. They are behaving more like smartphones than cars on the market…

They are both awesome. I want to drive the Impala on a gravel road somewhere. And I want to drive the Subarute on a twisty road.

I wish you guys would do this on the following weekend. Myself and about 12 of my friends make the 5 hour drive to Detroit ever year for the show.

I don’t live too terribly far from Canada, 25 miles or so line of sight. Really Erie, PA which is a 2.5 hour drive to Niagara Falls.