The whistle is loud at :53, I can make it out above the background at :50.

Didn't give much warning? I can first hear the whistle at :50 in to the video, I assume it is louder outside the car. The impact is at 1:08, so that's at least 18 seconds of warning. At 30 mph, that's roughly 800 feet away (someone check my math). I'm sure the train engineer tried to swerve...

Someone did that to me once, stopped dead while merging on to an interstate highway in N. Dakota. I went around them on the shoulder, hand on horn, and merged normally. I realize I probably did nothing to ease their case of mergeonroadaphobia.

I think I had a picture of this very car in my Trapper Keeper.

Yes, water at the bottom. With sharks in the water. Sharks that have freakin' lasers on their heads. Much more dangerous.

For that money, you could probably buy Saab. Not a Saab, or some Saabs. Saab.

I'll second the motion. All those in favor?

Ahem: Road America. C'mon people, why not?

A smashing performance.

I'm not sure why anyone bought them in the first place. The chassis flex of a convertible, the open air feeling of a sunroof and the weather protection of a thatched hut. Awesome!

Then that makes this Great News!

I'm sure if there's 420hp, IRS and a 6-spd for around $28K, we'd be happy to hotwire the damn thing if we'd have to.

Sadly, you are right. I've got a 1934 Borgward in which I use hand/arm signals to indicate turns and lane changes since it has no working indicators. I realize it'd be just as easy to go without, but, dammit, I can't bring myself to be that rude.

I'm talking full-sized pickups in the US. For instance, on the F-150, the two bulbs shown on either side of the reverse light blink in tandem. I'm asking why one can't be amber and function only as an indicator.

Yamanote: You are correct. This is the scenario that annoys me. In the US we have the CHMSL (Center High Mounted Stop Light, AKA: third brake light) when simply mandating amber indicators would have eliminated the need. However, trucks generally do not have the CHMSL and do have the single rear (dual filament)…

In addition to the fact that in the US we don't have mandated amber turn signals... You get a guy pumping the brakes as he's turning in his truck (with the signal bulb set up you mention) and you have no clue where he's going.

So, this is the impression many people have of big American trucks being used to tow undersized loads? I'm not sure why this 5th wheel trailer is being used to tow some Tonka-sized trucks, but this was spotted near O'Hare in Chicago last weekend...

I, for one, have noticed that the application of sheep-skin seat covers appears to have peaked in 1983, and has gratefully never had a resurgence. I noticed this when we bought a 1972 model year car recently, and it had these covers on top of (of course) ripped leather.

I found this in the rules for NASA Midwest: "Group 3 is a progressive group. Passing limits on Saturday are lifted as the weekend progresses."