Yeah, I tear up too - I start by tearing up pictures of James Cameron.

In other words, a modern-day version of the legendary (and still-unaired) 1950s recording of Arthur Godfrey speaking to the nation which was to be aired after World War III?

Close. "Son of the bad life."

Yeah, like the one who would call me "hijo de la mala vida" in front of our friends and give me tonsil-washing French kisses when we were alone. Right, Pedro?

Eeesh. You can see where the lever was - lucky he didn't pick up the shifter in his other arm.

It's a '62 - the '61 had ridges on the hood; '62 was smooth.

A friend of mine gave me a video he shot way back in 1979 during the gas shortage of a line of cars going around the block to a Shell station in West L.A. - having a little trouble uploading but here's a still:

Give this one an honorable mention - What's the last car you'd expect to see in a Russian dashcam video? FF to 0:59:

"They're just going to end up blaming the truck driver."

Any Lakota students in the list? There's Amanda Standing Bear and Scott Two Bulls at Red Cloud HS this year.

Who on earth can eat that much candy before it all gets stale or solidifies in the tubes?

59 9-passenger wagons, and 216 6-passenger. I remember seeing a Cadet Blue 9-passenger wagon (definitely 9, there were kids sitting in the back seat) in front of us in a gas station in about 1966; my mother pointed it out to her little car-nut kid. So the first Edsel I remember seeing was one of the rarest.

Well, I wouldn't revoke his license but he should get a couple points on it...

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.

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…

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.