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Stan, thanks for your succinct and eloquent statement of The Car Guy Manifesto, which is generally delivered with greatest passion from the safety of the garage, the pub, or forums like this which (for reasons I'll never understand) are generally peopled with grumpy old men and with younger men in training to be grumpy and old.
I know I risk my membership in good standing here by observing that the Speedster sits polished and ready in our garage, having had its every need lovingly addressed over the past 10 years, while our 35-year-old laminate countertops show obvious signs of aging and neglect.
It is one of the paradoxes of modern life that the more we work on the infrastructure of the garage, at the expense of the infrastructure of the kitchen, the more time we are likely to spend sequestered in the garage.
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