Yeah, but how did Rawlings screw up so badly? OK, there are a lot of Google images of that newer fake bus but it's not hard to find images of the real thing:

And his life at less than zero.

Cool! Now let's see some burning Christmas trees.

Lincoln X-100.

Eeeesh. This was why I used to just buy decent running older low mileage cars at estate auctions, clean, smog and tag them, and turn them around. I'd make only $300-$700 a pop on them (except an '82 Eldo I broke even on) but at least I could enjoy them for a few weeks until they sold. Only car I wish I could have kept…

As a former Troféo owner, my condolences.

Mexico City, 1985. Went down for the Our Lady of Guadalupe ceremony on December 12 and spent the next eleven days with friends. Almost didn't get a ride to the airport but made it in the nick of time - to find my flight was overbooked and I'd been bumped to standby. This was late afternoon on the 23rd - my best shot…

Everything's coming up...

Ever?

There were plans for one in the mid-'80s, with James Coburn as John Z. (possibly a TV movie) but they didn't pan out. Too bad, as that would have been great casting.

"...the state of Kentucky has pretty generally throughout history been mocked; people look down on Kentucky," says Jones. "The thing this state has always prided itself on is we do one thing better than you, and that's basketball."

Get yer skates on, mate!

To Please a Lady, 1950. Not Clark Gable's best picture (they got too much Barbara Stanwyck in it) but the racing in USAAC sprint cars and at the Indy 500 was done well enough to make up for it. Check out this montage beginning with Gable running his qualifying laps under the edge of a thunderstorm, edited to "L'estasi…

That's the famous movie pilot Paul Mantz on the left and Amelia's navigator Fred Noonan on the right; looks like a microphone for Honolulu radio station KGU behind them.

Not impossible to do that and bring your wings with you...

I've had a few scary moments I've written about here before (the attempted swoop-and-squat insurance scam on the 605 where I missed the car trying to trap me but cracked up on the guardrail, the stuck throttle in my Crown Vic, getting trapped in a pack of cars doing 65 west of Flagstaff on packed snow, being chased on…

Aha! I stand corrected. Thanks for clarifying.

Chrysler products, to be exact. And there was some creative parts mixing as well - the cheaper series Firesweep used Dodge front fenders and hoods, and the more expensive Firedome and Fireflite used Chrysler units. (And in Canada and some foreign markets, you got a DeSoto front end bolted to a Plymouth.)

Jeanne Crain would soon have a more memorable experience with a Chrysler product. Here she is enjoying the ride of the 1961 Plymouth Belvedere:

Beat me to it!