Buy the car back. Only answer now. 

I’m so white my last name is White, but I’ve never understood doomsday preppers obsession with crappy mac and cheese. Seriously white people... you need to spend a little less time worrying about the end of the world and more time sourcing some good mac & cheese... usually found at soul food restaurants. Don’t forget…

Seriously? We’re standing on the veranda and clutching our pearls over this? I wish politicians still pronounced it “foe”. Sheesh!

I have an almost 200K 2004 V70R that I bought for $6900 6 years ago, and have spent about $5000 over that time bringing back to stage 0. New everything. Over that time period I don’t consider that bad, but I do turn my own wrenches and own a VIDA analyzer. 

Just no bro...

The turd never falls far from the A-Hole.

So great... Ford reinvented an 04 Volvo S60R. Only less fun. Figures.

Don’t really care for the right and down on my V70R. I think left and up is a better position for reverse.

“By “analog gauges” I don’t really mean physical, mechanical gauges.” I almost hated you forever until I read a little deeper.

My realization wasn’t with a car, but a close relative... a 1956 Higgins speedboat with a Chrysler Marine 6 that displaced close to 7 liters as I recall. A friend and I had restored the hull and reinstalled the motor, but after the rewire was complete the thing would turn over, but would not light. For days I went…