I like this van wouldn’t want to own it. Maybe for 1-1.5K to use around the yard as a utility hauler it might be worth it but, not to drive on the actual roads. $6500 is real car money but this is too old to be a real car I’d want to drive on a normal road. Not with a bunch of distracted drivers running around in…

What you are seeing right now is a short-term effect of the pandemic.

If you buy it and park it, assuming it’s going to appreciate, you might as well invest your money in a real investment which will earn more than car appreciation. If you buy it to drive, in 5 years you’ll have put another 50-75K miles on it, so, I’m skeptical about it appreciating much over that 5 year period. Because…

I wonder what parts availability is like. At 20 years old, Honda factory parts to start to become scarce.  How long does BMW keep them around? 

Old BMW’s are never sorted. When you repair them it’s just a matter of time before something else breaks. Eventually the thing you fixed first will break again. It’s a big circle of repair.

It’s why cops are getting a black eye too. All the bad things they’ve always done are now being filmed and shown on YT. 

You can’t go 6 hours without a drink? Seems to me the people complaining about a ban are probably alcoholics who don’t admit they have a problem.

I agree. Ban it completely. Let people pop tranquilizers if they’re having a hard time.

Issue more duct tape? Maybe tasers for the cabin crew? I’d say when someone gets loud and won’t shut up, it’s time to light them up and tape them down till the flight is over.

Pretty sure that a majority of small plane owners use it out of necessity, not just for fun like your friend.

Ha, he claims that plane owners aren’t wealthy as he changes from one expensive hobby to another expensive hobby....

We’re all going to have to suffer to reduce pollution. Most normal people are already suffering. Being forced to spend an extra $1500-2000 per car for emission controls. Why should plane owners be exempted? Because they have money?

I have expensive hobbies. Have a lathe and welders. I don’t pretend I’ m not “in the moneyed crowd”. I’m not in the 1% but, I’ll bet most plane owners are in the top 10-15% like me.

Visit a local public GA airport, talk to pilots and owners then get back to us.

You would completely destroy the light aviation industry and put almost 100,000 people permanently out of work.

The reality is most race cars are running regular 93 octane. Race fuel is exorbitantly expensive.  If people can’t get 105 anymore, they’ll just run lower compression. 

My local track sells 100 octane lead free. Race cars don’t need higher octane unless their engines are built to make use of it. Ban all leaded fuel and see what happens. What would happen in reality is people would simple detune their engines to run on 100 octane lead free.

All of them work towards a goal of allowing most of the 230,000 planes in the sky to fly, but do so running on fuel without lead. That solution has yet to be found.

What law is that? Several people have claimed that here but I’m not aware of any actual “law” that says that’s true.  The money itself says “any debt public or private”.  The cash transaction would have to be reported but that’s not the same thing as “forbidden”. 

He point is that the cops don’t enforce the law. Then enforce “feelings”. If a cop feels that something is bad, he’ll act on it even of there’s no law preventing it. Hell, cops aren’t even required to know the laws they enforce so how can it be any other way?