Two blown engines and I am more of a Subaru fanboi than ever. (Weird. Weird.)

So is this guy, and he knows two or three times what I do, or likely ever will.

From watching him and others, I’m getting more knowledgeable over time anyway.

What I end up buying, whether it’s an old one to get the manual transmission, or a new one to get the sweet new hybrid engine (and/or Wilderness badging and perqs), that’ll be a product of my learning and evolving as time goes by.

That old 2002 RME probably hasn’t sold yet, and if there was a way to lay hands on it for $7500 and do the timing belt and water pump for another $3K all at once, it might be close to the perfect solution, but …

There isn’t a way.

Maybe the van will sell tomorrow and there suddenly will be.

About such things, none of us knows anything.

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