I understand what you are saying about the weight of expectations and letting HER chose if it’s something that she’s passionate about, but you’ll never know if she’s going to be good if you don’t give her the opportunity and foster the talent if it’s there.

I honestly don’t follow formula, etc. as a sport closely…

I’ve never driven a Firebird or Camaro from this era to have an opinion of them but as cool as they look these were also built at the height of the Malaise Era and they vastly under performed their expectations. I would still like to give one the “Pro Touring” treatment and make them perform like they are supposed to.

Good for you! I am still upset to this day that my Dad refused to let me buy my Grandpa’s 87 Dodge Ram when he passed away. My Grandpa bought that truck new in 1987 (his first brand new vehicle he ever bought to my knowledge) and kept it until he had passed away from lung cancer in 2006. He bought that when I was 7…

I won’t entirely call it my “Dream Car”, but at the time it was the closest I could get to it and worth telling the story here.

So when I was 14 my Dad decided to go down the rabbit hole and do a full restoration on a muscle car. His first choice was a 65 - 67 GTO, but seeing none after a week of scouring Auto…

I don’t blame you there. Hopefully they will be smart enough to change their tune and let you put something else on if they get stolen again though.

Well said. I still have this strange affinity for the P71 Panthers. I like the “menacing” quality of their asethetic, and the fact that they have served so many roles for so long. It doesn’t get much more “American” than a body on frame large sedan either. I legitimately want to own an ex-cop car as a daily (either…

Not doubting your story about why an over-zealous dealer may insist on it but that’s ridiculous all the same. I can understand objecting to a wheel and tire with the wrong aspect ratio or an excessive amount of added weight (like putting 24”s on a “Donk” that never got an appropriate brake upgrade) but I find it…

Picture me sitting in my office chair right now with my fingers in my ears yelling “I’m not listening! I’m not listening! I’m not listening!” with tears welling up in my eyes. :(

I saw a white v12 Countach parked in some resort town last summer and it was every bit as breathtaking as I imagined it would be in…

Nice! The only time I got a rental car that was remotely “FUN” was a Mid 90's Mitsubishi Eclipse when we were on a family vacation in Florida. Seventeen year old me could hardly contain my excitement when we got out to the lot and found it but then we started driving and the alignement was so bad it was like driving…

This is what I’m wrestling with now. I fully intend to buy a ceromonial “Mid Life Crisis Car” when I turn 40 in 4 years and I’m struggling with what I really want like an aircooled Porsche for the experience of ownership or just resigning to the most “bang for the buck” and just buying a highly depreciated C5 Z06 and…

Agreed. I will NEVER put an aftermarket head unit and stereo into my 84 VW Rabbit GTI. In a moment of glaring stupidity I tried to use one of those good awful 1990's tape deck/headphone jack converter deals and the damn thing stuck in the tape deck. :( By the time I managed to pry it out I had done some kind of…

Awesome! Good memories I’m sure. My fondest memory of them is a Dukes of Hazzard General Lee that you can see in my hand in one of my portraits when I was probably 1.5 or 2 years old. I’m happy as can be in the picture but my Mom said they tried to take it away from me for the picture and I wailed and wailed so…

This should make the cut just for the Big Wheel Comparison alone. Bravo.

I was going to yell at you until I read the end. LOL I would love to have the chance to drive one of these too (and take it home) since I have an 84 GTI.

No that’s awesome! I’d love a “new one” to compliment my 84 GTI!

I’m always fascinated by the weird “hold out” cars that get a second life (and usually a very long one at that) in some other near Third World country.

Plus 50 cars at once is a lot of dangerous landmines for being stepped on!

I LOVED Matchbox cars and Hotwheels when I was little. You couldn’t pry them from my hands if you wanted to. When I was 2 and a half years old or so my Mom witnessed me throwing Matchbox cars on the ground and purposely stepping on them then…

On my way from the airport the night before a wedding in Northern Minnesota I happened to road kill a racoon with the turd of a Chrysler Sebring I was given at the airport. I didn’t think anything of it at first because it didn’t feel like a very bad impact; probably just grazed the top of it’s back.

Well the next…

Agreed. I’m 6'1" and 285 lbs and I can “sit behind myself” with plenty of leg room too. That was why I picked the 6 over the 3 in the end.

I was going to do that last week when I was there too but the cost of a 3 day rental on that made me say no bueno. $372 vs. $165 made me live with a Jetta. At least it wasn’t a Kia or a Chrysler 200. If I ever do a short trip down there in the future I’m doing it in a Mustang Convertible or a Miata for the day.

I think in part a lot of the decline in manual trans car sales has to do with the short supply of cars that manufacturers are actually building and putting on lots.

Someone made a great point on here over the demise of the 2 Door GTI when he said “How can VW sell them if they only stock 2 or 3 per dealership? Isn’t…