Needs better music.

Wagon or convertible? I think you and I must know the same people who have been threatening to do this for years.

Hate coming into these things late, but... Sometime around 1997 a friend of mine who was a former porn star/current car salesman told me about several clean '88 Cimmarons that had just come into his dealership (Prince Chrysler-Plymouth in Inglewood, where the red Challenger was towed away from in Gone in 60 Seconds).…

Over 400 discussions and replies and nobody's mentioned Rocky and Bullwinkle???

I'd say that goes back to the Keystone Kops; Love, Loot and Crash from 1915 would be among the earliest (including - or introducing? - the legendary crash-through-the-fruit-stand trope); the chase starts at 8:45:

As much as I like Matt Frewer (he even made The Taking of Beverly Hills watchable), Brooke Shields had the best scene in the movie playing herself working as a stewardess, telling Tom and Dick Smothers she had taken the job because she didn't want to spend the rest of her life playing bit parts in movies.

I drove one that GM brought to a local L.A. car show; I remember it had surprisingly good pickup and handling (the GM guy encouraged everybody to throw it around a bit!), and had a sound like George Jetson's ride. Fun little car; never thought it would spawn all this drama...

I've seen the red one at the Petersen Museum (Kris Trexler's car that he drove from L.A. to the Midwest, curiously not mentioned in the movie); was that one disabled as well?

Quite likely.

Looks like Ryan Junior will have a story about "Take Your Kid To Work Day" that his friends will never top.

Well, I inhabit it but that doesn't mean much; best way to describe once you're out of Chicago: "There's nothing for miles and miles but... miles and miles." (Bob Hope in Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number)

They don't make Pontiacs anymore - gotta do what you can to save an endangered species.

And if he didn't, it was probably impossible to get the damn things off by himself so he slept in 'em.

White Line Fever (1975). FF to 4:22:

Varnishing the spokes.

What a shock it would be to not need to pull open the bonnet of your 430 because it has a Camry engine!