I have nothing witty, so here’s a dumb joke: Q: What kind of car goes sixty in reverse? A: A rental car.

I am experiencing hard core nostalgia on seeing that ‘78 Subaru wagon. The first manual transmission car I could drive reasonably competently was the ‘77 model of that wagon, a little gray econobox. My dad was (not very patiently) trying to teach me to drive stick for months. I always screwed up, both because he was…

This is the right take. Somebody is going to pay that much for this thing. Even it that’s a CP.

Exactly. The lack of interior shots is a total dealbreaker. 

For what it’s worth, the typical retiree draws more from social security than he or she pays in.

I didn’t get my first passport and go to Europe for the first time until I was in my 30s. But I’ve been a lot since then. Sigh. I dream of going to Europe again. Someday. 

I agree. I figured it would be around 33%

About 42% of us do, as of 2018. A record!https://blogs.voanews.com/all-about-america/2018/01/18/record-number-of-americans-hold-passports/

And a passport would get you on a plane or a federal building. Not that I am in any hurry to do either right now. 

Good. We need more people to pay social security taxes. 

In North Carolina, I had to make an appointment to get this done...eight months in advance. Sure, the transaction took very little time, but the wait was plenty long. 

I disagree with your conclusion, but love the logic, so you deserve all the stars you’ll get for this Good Take.

Please explain your logic. Or, in your case, your “logic.”

I am fortunate enough to be able to absorb the $23 a month I pay for this, and remember, these are franchise operations, so they are, in essence, small local businesses. 

That interior shot gave me bad 70s flashbacks. CP. 

Yawn. The only people scared by Marx now are die-hard members of the remnants of the John Birch Society. 

Last I checked, the M-W dictionary is not a peer-reviewed journal of epidemiology. Nor is it the WHO. But, yeah, scientists, what do they know? 

Hi, Ayn Rand. Glad you could join us here in our individualistic utopia. Things are just great here. 

I had a 2005 Focus. I quite liked it. But by the time it was used up, around 140k miles, it was pretty much beyond repair. It appears that this parts car has suffered the same fate. Why fix the engine if you leave other bits unfixed? A well sorted one of these for just under $3k would be a fine around-town beater. But…

Exactly right. The WD-40 as lubricant myth will never die, even though it should.