A lot of commercial lenders will, too. SunTrust’s Lightstream division almost specializes in it. Rates aren’t as good, but you can get the money.

I wonder if the guy’s best bet to get rid of it fast would be to sell it to a dealer. They won’t give top dollar, but it should be enough to pay off the loan and have a bit left over (assuming that he maybe had a trade in and put some cash down originally and didn’t roll over another loan). It would get it gone right…

Take a small loan out on the car that you now own free and clear and use that to pay the taxes? 

Hell, I’m in sales, and getting away from your coworkers on a trip for awhile and talking to other people is part of what makes the whole thing more enjoyable for everyone. I remember one time in Chicago, we met up with a group of really fun tire salesmen from Ohio - totally different industry, so no prospects there,…

I started noticeably losing it in my early 20s, I got much of it back, but it took some $$$. Had it started 10 years later (eg now-ish), I probably wouldn’t have bothered, looking back, I guess I just wasn’t as confident in my own skin at the time and wasn’t ready to accept change. 

Actually, I believe his wig was less flammable than his natural hair. Or he was just more careful around open flames after he started wearing it. 

People really need to get a life. Internet comments, especially YouTube comments, have really become a cess pool of petty insults. Nick Denton really tried to elevate things with the community feel and approved/unapproved commenters and starred/unstarred comments , and it seems to be better than most, but, still…

Well, I mean, you could always just stick with a manual and retrofit one of these dealies:

I mean, they are vintage Porsche - as long as the VIN plate survived, they can and will be rebuilt.

Maybe not as stylish as the gold trim on the 1940 Continental, but certainly far more functional.

I don’t know what other term you use, but you could indeed file one down to where any key would work in any of their ignitions. 

Well, that is true, but you note the place they choose to highlight, they want you to focus on Apple being from California, even if the Apple product you’re holding only briefly spent time in CA by way of the Port of Long Beach.

I think this was in the same episode that detailed the manhunt for the John Doe who threw a fast food wrapper on the ground in Confederation Park in 1979.

And she was in her 20s in 1998, which means she’d only be in her 40s now, so, that works fine. And she belonged to a swim club, so she probably kept in shape. 

And even then, the desk clerk will tell you to just put the state and you’re fine. 

Old Hondas were notorious for that. I don’t think they had many variations on their keys, you had like a 1 in 20 chance your key would match someone else’s car perfectly. Also, they were easy to sort of file down and turn into master keys. 

Why not copy clothing companies and put something like “assembled in United States from foreign materials?”

That was clearly a low budget job, which I guess worked out for the better. If BL had been willing to spend some real money, they would have redone the whole front end in black polyurethane.

I don’t know, I actually thing Citroen and/or DS might be a better option.

I think it had to do with the early adopters of EVs being the sort of people who really didn’t like cars and the whole concept of personal transportation to begin with, seeing it as essentially a necessary evil. A stylish car was vulgar, bland and boring was better, ugly was better still.