This is quality Jalopnik. Well written. The story draws you into a point that satisfies the average reader with the information provided, but also gives the more interested reader a video to give more details. The article contains no “angle,” no footing for argument, it merely celebrates the story of someone who was…

ALL DRIVERS from EVERY STATE have been getting noticeably worse in the last few years. People are driving faster, more erratically, less turn signals, keeping smaller distances between the cars in front of them, hogging the left lane, staying in the right lane at on ramps, weaving between lanes, can’t stay in their…

What the Crosstrek is in the simplest terms is a 1st/2nd gen Forester you buy today with modern conveniences for a reasonable price. I daily an SF Forester, it’s a turd, it’s slow, the gear ratios are spaced a little weird, and yeah rides a little rough, but I’ll be damned if that thing doesn’t go anywhere it wants.…

Plugging the oddities of the SVX once again. My 92 has no power door lock switches inside the car, at all, just the lock pins, the only way to lock it from inside the car electrically is with the key fob. My 94 (RIP) had exactly ONE power door lock switch in the center console, all 4 windows on each car have their…

I usually do try to walk away and check out other stuff but generally by the time I get the thing backed up into a spot (horrendous rear visibility) I have attracted some type of attention (that’s how I met Mr. Regular for the first time) and have to at least answer some questions or talk to the people who showed up…

I come from a multigenerational racing family every male descendant on my dad’s mother’s parents raced something on dirt, drag raced or at minimum were car owners. Today’s subject, my second cousin, was one that actually did both, he raced quarter midgets and micro sprints from like 6-16 years old but his parents were…

Sheetz is good, but have you ever had anything from Rutter’s?

Back in High School some of my friends and I used to play a game called PT Loser, which involved us taking pictures of the most hideously modified PT Cruisers we could find and then roast the shit out of them in a group text. It all went well until that fateful day where I ended the game in glorious fashion with this…

I’m located pretty central in the Eastern US (Near Harrisburg, PA) so we never really do lengthy road trips. I can be in NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC, Pocono Speedway, Dover Speedway, the Beach, or hiking the Appalachian Trail within 3 hours (more like 15-20 minutes to the AT). I usually just hit the Sheetz on the way…

There is a Bojangles in Reading, PA on N 5th St. Highway if you need your fix closer to home.

Shit you got picked up in a cool car? In elementary school my mom once picked me up in a draft horse drawn brake cart (the horse drawn equivalent of a shooting brake car) in front of everyone, for 10 year old me it was traumatizing. I was asked for weeks if I was Amish or if my family didn’t own cars, in fact I was…

As far as I’m concerned Codemasters’ racing game releases peaked in 1991 with Micro Machines on NES. This is a hill I will die on. 

My parents absolutely got me into cars. My dad has been an amateur dirt track driver since the late 70s racing late models and later street stocks. I would help him in the garage with the race cars since I can remember, and obviously going to the track with him. My parents have always been truck people too, when I was…

Having been around enough people in my life that “exude” the stench of booze through their bodies I have always smelled a distinctly different smell between alcohol laced human sweat, bar mat/rag and ethanol based fuels. However I have had more time around those 3 smells than the average person so I don’t think I…

That was pretty much his exact response. “The penalty for driving without a license is a ticket, the penalty for driving under suspension is a charge, and you can’t suspend what doesn’t exist.” I don’t know how much truth there is to the last bit, but it’s seemed to serve him pretty well for over 25 years. 

I used to work with a guy that never got his license, he has 8 DUIs and is permanently barred from getting a license, it never stopped him. Sure a year or whatever in lockup stops it from occurring for the time being, but you’ll see him on the road again.

Will the Gas Station still be held liable if the fuel was purchased prior to the driver becoming intoxicated? How does the station know the intentions of the purchaser? What if a sober person purchases fuel for an intoxicated person, will the station still be liable? What if an intoxicated person purchases gasoline to…

I’ve always had a thing for Rat Rods, the sketchier the better too. Particularly one with an unusual and ridiculous engine (ie GMC v12 or Lincoln flathead v12 or like the one I saw a few years ago with a v-twin diesel industrial engine in it) and Ford based body. This would be forbidden fruit for me because no one who…

When I view these on a mobile device it just makes a nice gallery with captions for each picture right down the page for what its worth. But whatever you don’t tell them because I’m sure they’ll manage to cluster that the fuck all up too...

I’m late, so I wont get to be part of the slide show... damn... Oh well.