Hollowing out your catalytic converter is free...

@Chairman Kaga: How do you figure that? I mean, there's plenty of Jalop dignity in keeping some prewar Belgian chassis running with a Czechoslovakian 2-stroke engine in it, but I don't think there's any less in putting 900,000 miles on a 240DL just because you can. I completely buy this as a Jalop concept. That's…

@Royal Flush: Except for the rust. I agree the engine is bulletproof, but what's an engine without a body?

@maximum_sarge: Unless you have the automatic transmission. Or, say, your wife does. And the rear pump goes and takes out the governor drive gear. That thing had 3 transmission rebuilds in 2 months before they got it right. And the kickdown is broken again, for the 3rd time. This is not uncommon.

Pre-L DeTomaso Pantera.

Yeah, I would be a bit annoyed if I had to work on the remotes they did for the show at this point. They're in many cases obviously staged to create destruction, because it's "funny," and the pie-in-the-face punchline is as a rule badly telegraphed. Look at all the sheds they went through on the Ground Force…

@snap_understeer_ftw: Guns that shoot missile launchers, that shoot missiles midair, and the missiles are full of killer bees. With invisible swords.

What do you need con-rod bolts for anyway? If you can't hold it together with duct tape, you're not using enough duct tape.

I just managed to prevent my mother in law from getting a 2011 Jetta. She bought a Mini instead, but that doesn't matter. The important thing is it's not a 2011 Jetta. Because of me.

Oh, Jesus. Mom?

@Gïmmï Mørgäikköŋëŋ: I concur. Though I might go as early as '62.

My grandpappy's first-gen S10 Blazer (1984 I think) with the tow plate to tow it behind the motorhome and the dashboard covered in stickers from all the hillclimb rallies my grandparents did because they were awesome.

I remember having two successive Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser station wagons, with the wood paneling and everything. We called them "the blue car" and "the brown car." When we traded in the blue car for the brown car, I cried. I must have been 7.

It's even a pre-L. No rubber baby buggy bumpers. I'm in for the win. Nice price.

@Ash78 gonna git you, sucka: Yeah, how does he not realize he's got a stuck caliper? I could fix this car in my driveway for a sixer of beer.

My $1 Nissan 240SX that I put $3000 of suspension on when I was a teenager. Yes, I was that kid. But it was like 1995, and I was road racing, so it wasn't obvious how much I would look like a ricer douchebag in the future.

@Sledgecrowbar: I think you've misinterpreted taurus's tone. You appear to be agreeing with him.

@irishman72: Really. Hmm, I should look this up. Some fish & game guy told me even unloaded long guns need to be in a locked container now. Maybe he was wrong.

Gun racks in trucks are illegal in California. It's very very sad. It's why I don't own a truck.

@tonyola: Heh. Amateur spelling hour.