I did daily drive a 62 Austin Healey Sprite a few years ago.

I've been that person.  It's not a good idea.

This is nothing new on powerful heavy cars. Back when I daily drove a BMW e39 M5, 10k miles was the most I ever saw out of a set of rear tires. Factory 2 deg of rear camber coupled with lots of torque , it ate tires. Everyone on the forums has similar experiences.

As a person from Erie, that is too close to home for me.  I really don't like how terrible the animals get as you head south and have unreasonable fears of them.  

You nailed the point. My twin brother and I are two of those people that try to drive around in cool old cars. However our wonderful winter beater Oldsmobile didn’t pass inspection due to rust this past year. We have an e36 M3, Jeep Comanche, and Austin Healey Sprite. The M3 is also a winter beater, though we do…

I’m not aware of BaT ever billing itself as a classic car sales website. They started off sharing listings of interesting cars and eventually branches into auctions of those vehicles. I find this manual 4x4 CRV quite interesting, certainly more so than the sea of new Porsches or other exotics they offer. It’s stuff…

Indeed silver looks the best when dirty. Having also owned a black vehicle, I agree, they are dirty looking the next day. White though, seems to do ok, in winter the road salt blends in but in the summer the dust definitely makes white look bad.  I've also learned that black interiors always look dirty as most dirt is…

This sounds like my friend that ordered a brand new Wrangler in 2015, Rubicon 4 door with cloth heated seats, no screen and a stick shift in Army green. When it came in the dealer had accidentally ordered a black one and was very concerned that he wouldn’t take it as he has specifically ordered a green one. He said…

My parents purchased the Limited trim Jeep Grand Cherokee exclusively because it came in the sparkly brown color they wanted.  If the color had been available in a lower trim they'd have purchased it, and they would have preferred the non chrome mirror caps.

I really wanted a BMW E36 M3 in Dakar Yellow, but they command an honest $5k premium compared to the more mundane colors. Ended up with an Alpine White one with an awesome Sand Beige interior. Not as exciting but it’s a very sharp car in white.  After buying a White M3 and a Black Jeep MJ, I decided the next car had…

I am not sure about Ohio, but in PA you can't file a claim against damage from a plow truck, even if it's a plow trucks fault.  Their goal is to get the streets plowed, and at that they do a fine job, at least here in Erie.

MG and a few other British makes offered a system like this for their high end road cars in the 50s.

A lot of the crazy also came from the creative minds from AMC, particularly since Chrysler had budgets of which the AMC engineers could only dream of.

I just picked up an 09 Si to be my new winter beater. It’s a great car, fun engine, great transmission and surprisingly comfortable. I’m very unimpressed with the build quality and it has a ton of electrical gremlins. Have you had any electrical issues in yours? 

This is so true, as the owner of almost exclusively over 20 year old cars I've lived this.  Until recently I had a 99 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight and a 99 BMW M3.  The Oldsmobile was beginning to get extremely hard to get parts for as they didn't sell all that many and there was no aftermarket or enthusiast behind the…

I find this take funny, the most comfortable seats I’ve experienced in a truck was a rental Nissan Frontier in 2019. They were cloth seats with reasonably soft foam. I really liked that truck and made a great vehicle to run home from Detroit to Erie, PA when snow canceled my flight

I needed a truck a couple years ago to do truck stuff, purchased an older midsized truck and I haven’t found something I couldn’t do with it that I needed to do. Move a 20ft board in a 6ft bed, sure. Tow a 5000 lb trail, absolutely. Daily drive just because it’s fun, why not.  The big trucks are awesome, but I…

The first gen Cadillac DTS still offered a column shifter with the bench seat option. My grandparents 06 DTS had a column shift with a heated and cooled front bench seat.

As a former owner of an e39 M5 and current owner of an e36 M3, I agree with you. There was a time I kept up with every new BMW model, that changed sometimes in the late 2010s and other than a couple of years daily driving a 2013 Mini S JCW, I can’t say I have any interest in any BMW that is less than 20 years old.

Sounds like using the infotainment in my friends Cadillac ATS, it is all touch sensitive and very infuriating to use.  Super unresponsive and difficult to find when driving.  Buttons and knobs are where it's at.