The endless money pit You know the joke: "I'm never going to get married again. I'm just going to find a woman who hates me and buy her a house"? Well, change "house" to "car" and you find an entirely new kind of automotive money pit. Let's see, there was the Bugeye Sprite, the purple M3. . . Thank God I finally wized up and married a dame who buys her own cars!