To his credit, he spoke the language of the 18-25 year old. When he was starting out it was enjoyable, here was a writer whose joy of sports was clearly evident and he liked to argue for arguments sake. His style was fun.

In that scenario, Bill Simmons slept with Hunter S Thompson’s mom.

Maybe Simmons is the Dane Cook of Sports-writing—all delivery, zero content.

I noticed that once I stopped smoking pot, Simmons stopped being funny. Probably not a coincidence.

Elmira is a Grade A shit hole. I avoid that place at all costs. All it has is an expensive college with a high proportion of girls to guys.

They won’t use Savannah when the Charleston port is roughly as big, and is at least two to three hours closer.

Fuck yeah, SC!

Yea but who would want to live in New York near that port, let alone deal with the corrupt politicians and labor unions there? No one planning a major manufacturing operation would choose to deal with modern day Tammany Hall when there exist superior alternatives elsewhere that include the rule of law and civilized…

Exactly, and the point is to have manufacturing jobs that are creating higher technology items, as well as doing the final assembly, rather than just producing raw materials, essential as they may be. Boeing recently rejected efforts to unionize their plant, so we’ll see how this plays out with Volvo. I’m doubtful…

Will South Carolina become the new Michigan for cars? They’ve got a lot of manufactures now.

In before ‘people from the south are stoopid’ jokes.

Any car is reliable if meticulously maintained. The thing about cars like this is they are often reliable even when completely and utterly neglected... which — to the huge segment of the population that completely and utterly neglects their cars — matters.

For $2500 it’s a steal. Strip the vinyl top, and paint it black. Boom. Marauder.

Oh hell yes. Though maybe swap in a “stock” exhaust with cutouts to swap from granny mode, to straight pipe. A couple of turbos or a blower, and huge sleeper, for short money. NP.

Most likely a mustang 5.0 since the 5 speed came from a mustang. Putting an entire mustang drivetrain in a panther is incredibly easy.

Because it makes it more fun? Because it’s incredibly easy? Because a panther can be a pretty decent performer and a serious sleeper with a surprisingly small amount of money?

This might be the nicest priced NPCP I’ve seen, and I don’t even like square Panther body car. Quick somebody make a B body equivalent to this!

I hit NP so hard I thought my phone was going to break. I may be a little biased because I have dreams of a 4.6 DOHC and manual swapped crown town car, but there is something seriously cool about a manual fullsize sedan.

It’s only $2500, that’s short money for almost anything that is actually running. For something this interesting it is nice price all day. I suspect mostly Ford haters are the CP voters.

What are they going to do about containing costs and making sure that Ferrari is competitive?