Living in the northeast, I feel like it will rust into a pile of iron oxide before I worry about the paint condition (Speaking on my FJ Cruiser daily driver which I will, in fact, keep until the end of time...or a pile of iron oxide).

Back in the 80's I had a beautiful 240Z that I used to show. Here she is. I miss her. Triple 2-barrel Webers. Ran like a monster.

Living in Knoxville, TN. Quite broke at the time....Driving a beat up Datsun 200SX, literally ran out of gas at the top of a long long hill...coasted down, across oncoming traffic (thank god it was clear enough to cross) and came to a rest (without brakes) exactly in front of the pump.

I accompanied a friend to the Chrysler dealer. He was purchasing a brand new 1987 Conquest TSI. Red Turbo, etc. Nice car for the time. The dealer wrote up the sales slip and before he could sign it, I made him let me read it. The VIN number was so sloppily written that I could’t make out the last few digits. My…

My first and as far as I can recall, my oldest, too...1966 VW Beetle

Good one! Yes.

I’m sure you’re right, but, it felt good to vent. My god, people are stupid.

Let natural selection do its job. I wear my belt. My daughter wears hers. All my friends wear belts. It’s a no brainer. I don’t need or want any added complexity or expense added to my car to save the morons who can’t manage a simple thing like buckling their belt. Come on, people.

Ah, but, that’s relative motion. It’s all relative. If I’m on the moon, the ground I’m on may be moving but, relative to the other things actually ON the moon, they are not. By static, I think he meant in a permanent structure. So, they went with the itinerant approach. It works :)

For the first 15 years of my career as a Computer Scientist for the FAA, I spent many hours on flights all over the place. I don’t know the number of commercial flights I’ve been on, but, it’s a staggering number, and none even close to as bad as what occurred on a personal trip to Europe.

For the first 15 years of my career as a Computer Scientist for the FAA, I spent many hours on flights all over the place. I don’t know the number of commercial flights I’ve been on, but, it’s a staggering number, and none even close to as bad as what occurred on a personal trip to Europe.

Oh that’s easy. I was in TN in a stick-shift Datsun 200SX. The one shaped like a bar of Irish Spring, not the nicer looking ones to follow. In the parking lot of a movie theater, making out...kissing and not paying attention. When we took a break, somehow, we had managed to roll from one end of the parking lot to…

Holy misplaced blame, Batman!

No loss there. Back in the 80s, my girlfriend had one. She went from a car that had terrible understeer (260Z) to the Pulsar - oversteer. She nearly killed herself getting used to it.

Perhaps, the solution is to film in a building while inside, the entire set is on a giant turntable that slowly rotates like the top of some restaurants. Static no more.

Agreed 100%. That’s where they lost me, too. There are only two options. Static as in not moving. Or moving. We can’t even film from the moon because if they built a studio on the ground, it would be static.

Correct!

Partridge Family-Edition VW

Oh...the Crusades are a PERFECT example. Thanks for bringing them up. Look back on your history, folks. The Crusades were, in fact, a DIRECT response to a LONG history of Muslim aggression. They were the done by the Christian powers of Europe to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims.

Let’s not forget every single 1995 Mercedes C280. At some point, the engine wiring harness will literally fall apart due to the German mandated recyclable/biodegradable materials used that year. It’s a $1000+ repair.