It looks “boring” by comparison to a “hero car” on a poster like a Bugatti, but I would definitely guess that his kid would get a kick out of the power this thing puts down and 10 or 15 years from now he’ll be looking back on it fondly that Dad had a bad ass sleeper car. I know I would.

Yeah I know some people like that. I pick on a friend of mine because I swear that he enjoys finding and fixing new daily drivers/beaters more then he does working on his dedicated long term ownership project cars! I joke with him and say that he always has a cool beater, but his projects all collect dust.

That makes a lot more sense to me I think. Even if the end goal was to sell the car, I’d at least want to spend a summer driving the car before I sold it off.

I’m going to recluctantly CP this because I love them but I feel like the price you could find another example nearly as nice that someone has done a manual swap to already. I’d still like to own one of these someday but I’ve honestly never made a sincere effort to buy one.

All good points about time and assessing a labor value to this which I think you really have to do to consider actual profit. I find it interesting how some people consider flipping to be an actual hobby in and of itself, and they move from one project to the next without actually enjoying owning and driving the…

As a devote hater of SUVS and CUVs I would rather buy a damn minivan if I had to over a CUV or a 3^rd Row Crossover. If you actually have to haul a car full of people around there’s no better way to do it then a minivan. Don’t kid yourself that the 3^rd row in any SUV smaller than a Suburban/Escalade/Expedition is…

And FCA is probably crazy enough to build you one!

Unless I was traveling with family or a large group, I have NEVER requested anything more than the cheapest smallest rental car available. Does it suck to go from you’re presumably FUN daily driver or project car to an anemic 4 cyl domestic fleet car? Of course it does! But I would rather spend more money on my…

It’ll probably get passed onto us. I recall during the latest gas spike to over $4.00/gal rental companies were actually charging MORE for Economy Cars and Sub Compacts. I didn’t rent a lot in that time period so I can’t say for sure how much more, or how radical that pricing structure got (i.e. a Suburban costing…

Hard to let go of something that has a family bond, although this one was pretty short lived.

I wanted so badly to own my Grandpa’s truck when he passed away from cancer unexpectedly. Not for some selfish reason, and it really wasn’t that “cool”, but because it reminded me so much of him. It was an 87 Dodge Ram D-150.…

I LOVED my 02 Jetta wagon with a VR6 and 5 spd but I wanted to set it on fire when I sold it in the end. It had 183,000 miles on it then.

In 6 weeks I was involuntarily biking to work and I spent $800 on parts doing the work myself to get that POS fixed. I’ll be honest and say that some of if was deffered…

I think it’s unrealistic to see it happen now, but if Uber gets beat down for their shitty business practices and sued into submission for having actual employees and not “independent contractors” then I could see them make a conscession to avoid bankruptcy and purge labor expenses. Think of it like a “franchising…

Yeah, it’s similar to a taxi service in any major city really at that point if you are outside of a high traffic area. The drivers are going to congregate near the bar district, etc. but if you are in the far suburbs who would work that area on purpose?

I’ve also had terrible experiences in bigger cities (150K -…

I could see Uber or Lyft selling the SOFTWARE for ride hailing instead of trying to offer the complete service and licensing it out to cab companies instead.

The magic of Uber and Lyft is that you can open the app on your phone, get a fare estimate, track the ETA and progress of the car, and know what make, model, and…

Even with minimal availability in rural areas that wait is sometimes still drastically less than what you would be waiting for a conventional taxi company. I’ve lived in a handful of smaller towns over the last decade and I’ve found conventional taxi service in them to be terrible.

In a small enough town (under…

You get a pass then. ;) That is a better way to distinguish it at least.

Agreed. I’m guessing that none of this was actually sanctioned or done with permission. It sounds like a lot of fun, but it’s not fucking cool if there are junk car parts and a shit load of litter left out in the woods. Not to mention, it’s assinine to do something so unsafely that it could start a fire or injure…

And if you are from the UP, ALL of the Lower Peninsula is still “Down State”. I correct everyone of you damn Trolls (nickname for people who live in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and are thus “living under the bridge”) when you say “I’m going up North.” I always ask “Oh really? Where too?” And when the answer is…

Why doesn’t the damn business’ insurance policy cover the vehicles in the garage? They should be paying the car owners off and considering anything left in there a write off at this point. Unless there’s some kind of “not responsible for damage to property” waiver bullshit that they think they can get away with.

I wouldn’t actually put something IN the road to block it, but a sign taped to a stack of tires next to it on the sidewalk would help anyone that isn’t too stupid to ignore it and drive into the pothole at speed anyway.