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Bath salts are a hell of a drug.

I guess I'm in the minority here, but it's a blight on the hillside, if you ask me. Which nobody did. I'll just be going now.

I agree with some of your points, but on the other hand, it's undisputed that the dealership in question is refusing to honor the high bid on an "auction" by pointing to the non-binding nature of an eBay Motors listing. I have no dog in this hunt, but if they're going to welsh on a non-deal-deal for that reason, I…

Pretty simple solution here: eBay motors auctions are non-binding, and that's a two-way street. Every time it becomes known that a dealer is refusing to honor the final price in one of its auctions, Jalops should just band together and everybody bids every listing that particular dealer has to ridiculous heights and…

I love me some Saabs, but if that car's worth $25K, then I guess I should've sold my old 9000 Aero for about $30K, and my Viggen must be worth at least $40K—but I'll "entertain" trades for a F355 with the 30K service done.

AMC had some pretty good looking race cars, as others have pointed out with pics of Javelins and AMXs. Just thought I'd throw the Eagle into the mix.

I was gonna post this, too, figuring that maybe nobody else would have remembered this one. Out of the modern era of racecars, this is one of the simplest liveries, and for that reason, one of the best looking.

When I was a kid, I had Bburago models in this livery and the Alitalia. Probably in contrast to most Jalops, I preferred the Pirelli scheme.

Bingo.

"Here's what the emergency cutoff switch needs to do in a regular passenger car:

This. The 1981 Plymouth TC3 was a bad enough car to start with (I should know, I owned one when I was 16), but then to cut off the roof and throw on a horrid-looking convertible top with jenky-ass windows... [shudder]

I'm with you—don't understand the "two wheels bad" crap. For peanuts, you can buy a bike that will out-accelerate, out-brake, and out-handle virtually any car period, and certainly any car that most of us Jalops could afford. They also out-convertible convertibles and out-miser pretty much any hybrid extant.

Because one of them is in pieces in the basement, and the other one is in the garage waiting for me to put on a new master cylinder, fix the oil leak from the cam box, and put some new tires on it.

I like the old 4WD Tercel wagons a lot, and I don't care that it's carb'd or anemic—they're pretty tough, simply designed and easy to work on. All of the things I love about my Volvo wagons, just in a smaller package and with 4WD. I've even come close to buying one once or twice, but this particular one's just too…

Well, my caveat was that "if Beno was really as innocent as he claimed." Meaning that there would be no probable cause for any of the charges, and a halfway-decent defense attorney could move to quash the charges and that would be that. Even for a guy with a high hourly rate, you're probably not talking more than…

Right, and had he not apparently conspired with somebody else to commit the fraud (not sure who this would be—none of the articles mention the co-conspirator(s)), it would've been an attempt charge. However, conspiracy charges don't require completion of the underlying act, only the existence of a common plan (to…

He agreed to it to avoid going to trial, not to avoid prison time. That distinction seems to be lost on a lot of people. And while prison time would have been a consequence if he had been convicted, it would not have been if he was acquitted. The most reasonable inference here is that there was substantial evidence…

Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick! Almost everybody here is missing the point: the cars are being crushed because Beno entered into a plea agreement (i.e., a contract), in which he offered up the cars to the crusher in exchange for avoiding going to trial on felony charges. Stop blaming the government, lawyers, judges,…

No due process problems—remember, Beno agreed to the cars being crushed as a plea deal, and he had the opportunity to go to trial if he wanted to. The "deprivation" was voluntary, and in any event, he was given the opportunity to avail himself of all the process he is/was due. He *chose* this (people seem to forget…