I gradually got out of that once universal habit when I started buying Japanese. An ‘86 Camry (which came into my life in well used condition as a commute beater, described and priced accordingly) was the last car in the fleet that really needed it.

That Spider could come into my parlor—and if it’s genuinely rust free and has been in Minnesota long, it might actually have been kept in the parlor eight or nine months out of the year.

And the 1962 original, and I’d also suggest finding a copy of The Executioners, one of the short novels that John D. MacDonald wrote before turning his attention primarily to the Travis McGee series.

Craigslist says the posting, 29 days old at the time of the capture, has expired as opposed to being deleted by the seller, so I guess the marketplace said, “talk to the Invisible Hand.”

Indulged a brief James Bond villain fantasy; realized that I couldn’t afford to have somebody dive the hull and scrape the barnacles off, pre-survey, and would have to hit not just any old Powerball, but a pretty good one, to get all the fees out of arrears, get defibrillated after stopping off at the gas dock, and g…

Folks, if you care enough about airplanes to be reading the comments on an article like this, and find yourself headed for the Seattle area, carve out the better part of a day for this museum. It’s that good, and that big. People who really care about planes (and therefore probably don’t need to be told this) might…

Both title and topic remind me that one of the holes I really have to fill in my cinematic experience is Kind Hearts and Coronets... if not for a what a friend of mine says is the best origin for “Revenge is a dish that is best served cold” that he has been able to find, then for a tour de force in which Alec Guinness …

Here’s hoping he prevails and the judge throws punitive damages on top of it.

Everybody could probably use a bit of good news; here’s some on civil forfeiture. tl;dr: trucking company owner who was traveling with forty grand in cash a couple of years ago, intending to purchase a truck, and had it confiscated (a case that actually made international news as one of those only-in-America…

Oh, a leaky sunroof (either at the edge or because of clogged or dislodged drainage) is tt plenty all by itself. A family member got their Highlander totaled by an insurance company (at a price surprisingly favorable to them) because of the potential health consequences of a car well saturated by a sunroof hose leak…

Priced noticeably under market value if Hagerty is to be believed. If you want one of these, this might be the one you want. Just be really careful about the consequences of that potential moonroof leak—not just soft furnishings but the floor pan.   

The statistics vary a lot depending on what you choose to count. For instance, some counts include brandishing or security discovery of a firearm on campus or other school controlled property or an event held under the aegis of a school; others only when the weapon was fired.

You can’t spell “swipe your car right from under your nose” without “swipe right”, amirite?

I can basically forgive all of the other sins!

The combination of locale and name make me wonder if Falun Gong followers are either associated somehow with the business or part of the target market.

Wasn’t that the last year of the throttle-body 350? Even if the rest checks out, which after 250k (and almost three decades in the Rust Belt) is a very good question, this vehicle is right on the cusp of some useful incremental improvements for 1996 (notably sequential fuel injection for the old-school small-block).

Not all the gas station stories are on the ground! Here we are in the early days of air-to-air refuelling: “On the next refueling attempt, Spaatz appeared in the hatch stark naked, except for a parachute harness.“

Oof. Hadn’t noticed that, but, yes, that was a whole-community nightmare in which the gas station was part of the widespread and devastating damage, not the cause (that would be Pacific Gas and Electric transmission lines).

Alas, I can’t take credit. Something scratching in the catbox that used to be my mind suggests that I first saw it some years ago in a comment either here or in the Disqus-powered comment section of old-school A.V. Club. The context was a discussion of some actor reputed to be squandering his or her talent on the…

It might be possible to make an educated guess based on the empirical knowledge of drug agents regarding what customers find satisfactory as a net amount of cocaine hydrochloride after diluents and adulterants—something that probably varies with market and pricing tier. But an educated guess is still a guess, just a…