Mini Cooper

I am always looking at a possible replacement (if I must due to my DD being T-boned) for my ‘13 Chevy Sonic hatch stick. The Elantra GT hatchback is no more in 2021. Give me a hatchback with three pedals and an upscale interior...That is becoming a unicorn in the USA in 2021.

“Swapping out incandescent bulbs for LEDs in reverse lights” - This is something I am still pursuing on several of our vehicles. I’ve bought some no-name Chinese replacements on eBay for #921 incandescents which failed 6 to 12 months after purchase...I am still looking for reliable substitutes.

You are entitled to your own opinion, even though it is wrong.

“IF you know the exact item you’re looking for, i.e. the model number, it’s very easy to find on Amazon eBay.” FTFY.

Up to eight years in prison for a black woman knocking on a door, and a slap on the wrist for white MAGAts smashing their way into the Capitol building? Now, that’s some (in)justice USA style.

Passover isn’t any more “weird” than celebrating someone rising from the dead

Note that I said, “If it has a steel B-pillar extending from floor to roof, it’s a sedan.” Now think about a four-door hardtop from the 1960s. There is a truncated B-pillar, because you need somewhere to mount the striker to latch the front door, and a place to attach the hinges for the rear door. If you crank…

Thanks, I was going to reply like codfangler: “I don’t see a first-gen Corvair in that picture.”

If it has a steel B-pillar extending from floor to roof, it’s a sedan. Most sedans have four doors but I have owned a two door sedan. For many decades, if there was no floor to roof steel B-pillar, it was called a hardtop. These were popular in both four- and two-door bodies. So yes, my two door sedan was also a…

I’m thinking practical, more than fun. You do you, though.

Salty fast food and coffee? You’re just asking for more piss stops. Plain cold water from a cooler (preferably from a reusable canteen or hot/cold insulated road tumbler and not in a plastic bottle) and various granola bars FTW.

To my understanding, the remote control of lights by emergency vehicles is a local and/or state funded option for each municipality or township. You see these gizmos (technical term) at some but far not all critical intersections here in NE Ohio.

If you ran an automaker and were clever enough to start stockpiling chips last year before they all wound up in gaming consoles and monitors, you’re sitting pretty right now.

I remember those bags being unusually loud, but I’d forgotten just how loud they were.

The tooling for the Falcon casting and the Mustang cover are both already paid for, so there would be no reason to change it. If that wheel design remained through ‘66 they should all be like that.

I remember the last time the Federal budget was more-or-less balanced was back during the Clinton administration. Do you remember the crushing burden of excessive taxation back then? Yeah, neither do I. Let’s go back to the progressive income tax rates used in the mid-90s, adjusted for inflation. Everybody needs to…

I used pickle juice as a marinade for chicken once. Unsurprisingly, it made the chicken taste like...pickles.

Little GTO by Ronny and the Daytonas

Doc says she will be back to normal in a week (actually, I don’t think that’s possible, she married me, normal is not going to happen.)