>>28580729
Got myself an older car, late 70's lincoln versailles, for cheap
I expected to feel smug; scotch-drinking, jazz-listening, linen-wearingly smug, but no. Instead I was met with a feeling of... sadness?
There I sat in a car ridiculed for being a re-skin of a re-skin, for being slow, for being ugly and unreliable. What I got was a car more reliable, more comfortable, better put together, and more satisfying to drive than quite literally anything made in the past ~20 years. Even the damn warranty pamphlet has more soul than the entirety of the mainstream automotive landscape. Of course, neither the car, nor the pamphlet, will ever be made again.
This car sucks, and yet, it's glorious. It was supposed to be a not-quite-beater, cheap and something I wouldnt feel bad about driving and throwing shit in, but I think I love it