Or we tax those who can afford it and use it to educate those who need it. The New York City college and university system was tuition-free until quite recently. It can be done if the will is there.

Yeah, the whole “driving is a privilege, not a right” seems like a massive end-run around the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

the downside of crashing the system is destroying college football and college sports in general.

How about we get rid of college athletics altogether? Athletes who want a career get signed to the minor leagues and worth their way up. Euro soccer’s “academy” model probably works too.

Presumably about the same as minor league baseball players or Junior League Hockey? Of course a few would jump to the pros a few years early.

As someone who’s out of control obsessions wrecked his marriage (and then his life) I approve.

If you don’t, you’ll spend the rest of your life asking “what if?”

The wildest engine swap I know is Peugeot 4 cylinder diesel into Ferrari 308/GT4. But rotary into Citroen sounds awesome and could only be topped by gas turbine, or small nuclear reactor, as the power plant of the future.

Your Nissan example checks out; modern Lincolns are just too different.

I think you’ve got that backwards - as prices have gone up because of things like OBDII (which effectively mandates a minimum engine life of 150,000 miles) manufacturers add “luxery” features like AC and power doors/windows/seats etc to take some of the sting off. But you can do this yourself: Google the price of ‘68…

The original Bentley Continental “R” was massively plagiarized from the ‘48 Coupe DeVille, so there’s an ironic justice here.

The late 50s Eldorado was every bit as well crafted as a Rolls, and had ultra luxury touches like a perfume atomizer in the glove compartment. Given the right budget, they absolutely can do it.

The Catera was the first Caddy based on an Opel architecture. Wasn’t a success, but set the pattern for all the great Caddies since.

Sooner or later, passenger cars are going the way of film cameras.

And a ‘68 Corvette would sticker for $33,000. It’s not just inflation making cars more expensive - it’s making it safe, fuel efficient, and non-polluting.

You are quite possibly correct. I once wrote a blog post called “What Did You Predict In The War, Daddy?” about how the US could - plausibly - win a nuclear war against Russia or China.

This is the kind of crazy genius that restores my faith in the CIA.

I agree that’s basically the level of security you’d need, and am not sure how practical that is. Also, counterfeiting money is not a political issue, but in elections a further question arises: who audits the auditors?

The problem with your scenario is that people tend to think their OWN congressperson is OK. Republicans officeholders live in fear of being primary’d by someone even further right than they are.

I keep being told pigs are going to fly, but so far....