You seriously can't imagine the homophobic corners of car culture? I'm not talking about you and me and Jalopnik (for the most part). 

Until about a hundred years ago, pink was masculine.

We'll just tell David that's rustoleum. 

Could be an Andrew Christian video, if it isn't already. 

In my experience, car nerd culture tends to have disproportionately many gay people, for DINK type reasons. Too bad some corners of the culture are so homophobic. I know a few gay guys in the vintage MB world who go to great pains not to disclose the gender of their significant other while discussing their lives with…

The AMGs have the active suspension, don’t they? That’s probably also dead. Budget $3K or so for that repair.

You're exaggerating for this generation. A Star C3 setup costs under $1,000. Not big money for a shop. The stuff about grandpa is pure bullshit to hide this car having been hooned by some asshole in a maga hat. 

Grandpa story is always bullshit from a professional flipper and I’m guessing this thing has problems with the 3-4 shift and the convertible top. Each of those will cost a few thousand to fix.

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You son of a bitch.

Oh God yes, but remember remember that they’re aimed at two different markets: West Germany vs China. It would be difficult to name two more dissimilar markets.

which is why two of BMW’s earlier cars didn’t feature the grille—it didn’t exist yet

Cayman over 911 even if price is no object / imagine someone else is paying?

I imagine this sort of thing is why nonworking, non-re-programmable Rolls Royce keyfobs remain very expensive.

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Zing!

Professional flippers have known this fact for all eternity and go photograph in front of the nicest house in town. If I see a nice house behind a car, I know it’s a flipper.

Do you really mean nonplussed (confused)?

Yup. He called it a 911 cab. I bet he also says door cards.