I always really feel bad for the staff.  Additional spiel, additional fake smiles and acting all holly jolly at the extra work, then having to keep track of transactions, or if someone wants to donate a big bulk amount of money to take care of a few cars... it sounds awful.  Then again, I’m a joyless, soulless wretch…

It only works if there’s actually people in line. If there’s someone behind you, you just tell the cashier you want to pay for it and pay like you would any other order, it’s just two of them.

Frankly, I’m surprised a unibody vehicle with a cut and welded C-pillar would even be allowed to be back on the road, let alone sold as a vehicle with minor imperfections.

I like Bernie, but I’d rather not remember 2020, and I don’t really do bumper stickers.

Actually, I take that back. I’m probably going to replace it with a Green New Deal bumper sticker once the wrap goes on, so... Yeah.

A billion times better!  I kinda like it with red tails.

I see your point but a lot of 16 year olds (the ones interested in driving these days) would want their own project and not someone else’s.  

No 17-18 year old who saved up $4500 working at a restaurant or whatever should ever buy a heavily modified, high mileage vehicle. There is a not-insignificant chance that it will need some kind of very expensive repair within 1-2 years because you’d have no idea how intelligently the mods were done and how hard it…

The rusty interior is what killed it for me....not to say it wasn’t on life support before that. I can’t say that I’ve ever personally seen a vehicle where internal components that should be protected from the elements have a visible patina of rust. For that level of interior exposure to occur, it really makes me…

Well, I think $3800 to haul it away is quite a deal!

Also rather worryingly, the hazard light switch seems to be worn out

I really tried to see promise in this thing. When looking through my magic “what a project could be” glasses, the end product is pretty fantastic. But I just can’t get beyond the sheer magnitude of work to be done on this thing. The exterior doesn’t appear to be too bad. A good cleaning, sticker removal, and repaint.…

At an average 16 miles an hour i’m willing to dispute that notion. You realise that a human *RAN* 26.2 miles in two hours. Sure he’s the supreme marathon runner, but the point is your machinery is supposed to make your life easier, not more difficult.
The electric charging infrastructure needs a serious upgrade for…

I’ll rephrase...”Why at 52 years old, JadeRose will never own an EV”.

If I had a bunch of Grand National parts, I’d leave them in the Grand National where they belong and spend my time and money restoring that.

There’s two reasons. One, people with bad driving records pay much higher insurance, which makes them more likely to get away without it. And two, shitty drivers are often shitty people.

“If you claim to be a car enthusiast (or a responsible person) and live in the snowbelt; if you don’t own snow tires you’re neither.”

Traction is for cowards. I survived many winters in Cincinnati in RWD cars (G37 and M5) with summer tires year round. I would not recommend everyone do that, but I don’t think it excludes you from being a car enthusiast. (It does slide you down a few notches on the responsibility scale.)

Two racks from Tire Rack. They were $149/each when I bought them last spring after leaving the tires stacked between cardboard discs in the corner of the garage for years.

I have to admit that there could be some benefits. You can buy a base-level car and later, when you can afford it, subscribe to other, more luxurious options.

Where’s the link to the GoFundMe page to buy more foreign shit for this guy to analyze? Seriously, that dude is entertaining as hell just due to his sheer joy at this thing.