I had a green over tan ‘78 Pontiac Sunbird hatch from ‘78-’04 similar to the pictured Monza hatchback. 231 Buick V6 2-bbl, four speed Saginaw trans. I swapped in a Hurst shifter, posi rear carrier out of a Monza GT, Trans Am steering wheel, and powder-coated Vega GT wheels with white-letter Goodyear GT radials…

Yep, 1953 Studebaker - the cleanest, most “modern-looking” of the USA 1950's designs. The worst was the more and more chrome excesses ca. 1958-59. The “horsepower wars”, while entertaining, were still constrained by the lousy brakes, tires, and suspensions of the era.

Having lived through it the worst was the Malaise Era, not only ‘73-’83 per the linked article, but starting in the 1971 MY with the industry-wide drop in compression ratios to accommodate low- and upcoming no-lead gasoline (absolutely necessary for catalytic converters), and corresponding lower HP. You had…

This is a great comment. I have personally replaced every motor start capacitor at least once in my array of three Genie garage door openers over the last 30 years. Maybe two or three years ago I could hear that my Trane central A/C tried to start but would not. I called my local HVAC service company and their…

a previous user of the shower was kind enough to take a shit right on the shower floor for me to admire

Bonus points for appropriately lower-case “god”.

Eh, I see a lot of complaints about the Canada geese, but I view them as just another part of a healthy varied ecosystem. If you ate grass all day, you would poop green, too.

I find it borderline hilarious that there are already 10+ comments about Ferrari turn signal operation when probably less than 0.1% of the Jalopnik commentariat will ever drive, let alone own, a Ferrari.

In your list you forgot

I...once spent 4 months in Cleveland (Jan-Apr) and also do not approve of Ohio.

Lifetime Cleveland, Ohio area resident here. Yes, both the State and Federal districts have been thoroughly gerrymandered so the Repugnicans have ¾ of the seats with only ½ of the votes. But depending on where you are it can be a pretty nice place to live, lake effect snow notwithstanding.

A lot of state parks have impressive facilities for a tolerable fee

I’ve grown fond of the finer things in life, like beds, showers, and warm food at the end of a long drive.

Neutral: Back on August 31, 2012 I ordered a brand new 2013 Chevy Sonic hatchback in the LTZ highest trim level to get the 1.4L Turbo motor, six speed stick, and other options. I took delivery 9/15/2012 and today it still has less than 49K miles. I would love to buy a 2021 or 2022 hatchback with three pedals and…

Def worthy of an unholy ass beating imho.

a victimless crime would be like buying drugs or renting a prostitute.

If someone threatens to harm me personally or those around me, that’s a different story, but a bike can be replaced.

12%? Where is the other 20% of my income going then? Ugh.

Regarding TPMS, the Marketing people at Chevy instructed the Design Engineers for the Sonic development program that they would only pay for a single LED or LCD panel alert to indicate to the driver, “One of your (unspecified) tires is some (unspecified) amount low in inflation”. For a brief period I got some…

I wouldn’t shoot someone over my catalytic converter, but if someone decides that’s how they want to handle the problem I’m not 100% against it either.