Baton Rouge PD must have gotten a hell of a deal on those K-Cars. They soldiered on well into the '90's, until the Caprices replaced them. Many a young rookie's hopes were dashed when they got their 1st solo assignment and car- Dodge Diplomat. Your 1st order of business - take it to the shop and get the exhaust…

LSU is so bad about parking and towing, they keep 2 contract tow trucks on campus at all times. The "parking enforcement officers" (when they're not sleeping on their cart or double-parked in handicapped zones) videotape each towjob. I figure they watch the highlights and touch themselves inappropriately. The only…

Those are some nasty chemicals. I participated in a tabletop exercise for a massive chemical accident and antidote deployment. Our scenario-fully loaded crop duster crash into a Wal-Mart parking lot. It was interesting to play out. Our ambulance station in Ferriday, LA was literally in a soybean field. Pretty sure I…

I've been unhealthily lusting after one of these since they were announced. Our local Jag dealer has had 2, maybe 3 total since they've been out, 1 is left and has been there for months. I want to go test drive it, but I'm afraid it's going to be a "never meet your heroes" moment like the FR-S was for me. (couldn't…

1980 F100. Best truck I ever owned. Straight 6, manual choke, piston A/C compressor (didn't work anyway). Used more oil than gas. Dependably commuted me 45 miles each way to work and back until a stuck thermostat killed it in a Louisiana summer. Died on the roadside, almost home. I yanked the radio out, said my…

ah,yes. The. Elusive dickbutt. But, no Javert?

IIRC I was into weed and Old English 800 about the time. It was around '96, I test drove one and broke a rim on a curb. The sedan stayed the Lumina, they renamed the coupe Monte Carlo.

I actually saw one of these in Hattiesburg, Mississippi today. I've literally seen more G-Wagens here than this!

As much of a sucker as I am for these things, I gotta vote crack pipe. Cut it in half and I'll think about it.

Try being a repo man for a group of them. Exciting at first, was damn near ashamed of it all when I quit it after a few months.

Love me some USAA. Best auto and homeowner's I have ever had. Cheapest I could get in Louisiana.

Guess much hasn't changed. In 1995, 18 y/o me walked in to my local Mitsubishi dealer with no credit, no down payment, no really verifiable income, and a decent trade in. A couple of hours later, I rolled out in a '91 Eclipse GSX at 26.5% interest (LA had no usury laws at the time). Even with the absurd interest, the…

Lexus IS. They all seem to be driven by flat-hatted douchebags who love sitting in parking lots revving what sounds like a weed eater.

Worst. Rental. Ever. Got stuck with one from Nashville to Harrogate, TN (4 hours). Wanted to upgrade to the CTS-V, but it would have melted my credit card!

Not hard to do on the Trace, at least you've got nice scenery while you're doing it. My best so far is 50.3 in a '10 Fusion Hybrid

I'm so utterly torn. Dead marque-check, functioning A/C-check, 3 pedals-check. BUT, I still have nightmares about that damn 260 from my time of T-Top Cutlass Supreme ownership in high school and the time I spent keeping that damn gutless Cutlass on the road (That thing somehow ATE waterpumps). And I sure as hell ain't…

I used to love to watch him when I visited family in Houston. Can still hear his voice "Marrrvin Zindler, Eyeeeeeeewitness News!"

brb, going convert my 4-speed 240D to run on vegetable oil

Guess it's easier to use than 1st gen iDrive?

Unrelated question: Any idea how to become a motorsports physician? I'm a 1st year med student with an eye toward Emergency Medicine.