I had a 91 Si that was my first real “project car” after I started off with a Chevy Corsica as my first car, and a hand me down Plymouth Acclaim from my Mom. Loved that thing but the “Honda rust” on the rear fender lip kept coming back and I was burning a quart of oil every 400 miles (thanks B21a!). I finally sold…

CP. This just screams “I crashed my C4 vette and didn’t know what to do with the motor so I threw it in this cheap project car I don’t have the money to finish right.” If this was a rust free car with a clean interior and an LS, not an LT, motor I’d say NP.

That’s awesome! I wonder if anyone has ever done a speed actuated hood scoop, like the hood scoop version of a Porsche rear wing. That would be interesting.

Good idea! I’d love to see an “Ask an Insurance Agent” blog. Especially on topics like which Insurance Companies are easiest to process claims with, which will void a claim or policy for aftermarket parts (ex. too low), etc.

Gotcha. Yeah I was just curious if the owner or Turo could tread it like a rental car company does for collecting a deductable or “loss of service time”. Makes sense though. Thanks.

Thanks for the explanation. So is it possible that the R8 owner might make up the difference in value loss after all once his insurance goes after the driver’s insurance company? Or is it just going to recoup part of his settlement?

Very well said. My project car sat for a little over 2 years because I got “stuck” on trying to replace all of the hard brake lines and the main fuel hard lines. I grew frustrated with trying to repare them with flaired sections underneath jack stands in my garage with 14" of headroom and I finally decided that the…

Agreed. I love your tenacity David but this is nuts. I would shelve the trans and diff you rebuilt and part and find a better shell or just part out anything else of value. It sounds like even with you doing the work yourself you have THOUSANDS of dollars worth in parts to get it going right. I overhauled my…

Arbitrary deadlines like this are good and bad. My 84 GTI sat in my garage on jackstands with no suspension on it or a gas tank for almost 2 years because I got burnt out and realized that certain jobs on it (bending and routing all new brake lines and 2 hard fuel lines) were over my head. It got to the point where…

Stupid question here but I’m going to ask it anyway. So does Turo provide a full coverage “wreck it and walk away” supplemental full coverage policy like Hertz, etc. does? Is that what the driver of the car that wrecked it used?

And if not, what about the responsibility of the actual driver/renter to pay the…

Haha, great anology!

Love his attitude, and the fact that he chain smokes cigars, drinks whiskey and eats ice cream everyday, and still drives his old truck. The day you stop living is the day you start dying.

Well said on both accounts of true “testing” and the need for better transportation infrastructure in this country.

Yes they can pass an eye test and a written test, but does that really measure reaction time, cognative ability, etc? It sucks because there are people over 70 that are 100% “with it” and totally…

Saw that on a facebook comment on the Jalopnik paged and donated. Glad to see they are getting close to the goal. Well deserved.

Any particular reason that this area seems to be the craddle of all of that car building to begin with? Never heard of that much going on there!

Yup, those rear fender lips will be toast in a winter or 2. I gave up on buying an EG3 hatch about 12 years ago when a dented up rusted out one that lookede like it was really driven by someone who treated it like an “ecomony car” was selling for $4,000 in the Midwest. Not only was it a ripoff for a rusty car, it…

Jesus! Sounds like you handled it appropriately and I’m glad nothing else happened to you. That’s nuts.

Probably and that’s a good point. If I were really buying an ND (or any generation Miata for that matter) I’d probably be installing a lower profile fixed racing seat. I did notice too that they had a true track car on display at the autoshow too and it had a fiberglass roof with a pretty significant “bump” for…

I also want to say that car manufacturers in general need to stop being so cheap in bolster design and materials for seats. Everybody seat doesn’t need to ressemble and hold you in like a racing seat like a heavily bolstered Recaro, but they should do better then this. I’ve owned my ‘15 Mazda6 Touring for 2.5 years…

This is ridiculous. Most insulting of all, is that they are talking about rejecting the claims and humiliating this man for a $185 repair. So I can assume that at least $85-$100 is labor (assuming it was 1 hr total) and the stupid poorly engineered plastic part they are talking about cost them a few bucks at cost…