Great story. I particularly like the pictures, they really take me back to Firenze. That wasn't the McDonald's by the train station, was it? Kudos for surviving if so, that can be a nasty place...

I've got a 500 Abarth and have never experienced u-joint toe entrapment. I'll need to see if I can touch it with my feet. How cool would foot operated steering be?

Alameda cops are great. At least they were 25 years ago, when I was hooning around down there. One nice fellow let me go after he caught me >speed limit x4.

Sure, here's one from my work PC, it's a 1960 BT7.

Yes. A Mark 3 with the ugly convertible top and monster truck ride height.

As a man on the wrong side of 40, I support this choice of car. Our commuter car / person carrier is a Fiat 500 Abarth. My wife finds it amusing how much attention it gets from men, when it's really just an economy car. A very fun economy car, but an economy car nonetheless.

I'm an American and was in Cuba just last week. So you were the incredibly pompous, self congratulatory one leering at those Germans. I was wondering who that clod was.

Congratulations Ray. I'm looking forward to seeing the fruits of this dragoning venture.

I see what you did there.

There is a replica of that '56 Thunderbird on display in the airport as well. Here's a link to some additional shots of it. It seems appropriate that the airport safety car for Las Vegas would be a T-bird.

Ford says it's rated to tow 5000 lbs of crapcan Peugeot. Sounds like a decent candidate to me.

Will it LeMons support?

Tall station wagon is a station wagon.

If it were my last day on earth last drive, it'd have to be on Grizzly Peak and Skyline Drive over the lovely East Bay hills behind the wheel of the AW11 MR2 I had the pleasure of driving in high school. I learned more about car control in that car on those roads late at night by myself at speeds too fast to admit. …

They were theses when theses weren't cool.

Nice car too, we love ours.

I sense a new trunk capacity unit of measure...

A winning reply. Keep producing content, regardless of what someone on Jalopnik or anywhere says. I get critics telling me my choice of cars to feature sucks, or my project cars are stupid.

That it is wearing German license plates explains all. It's the latest in Bimmer bloatware. You'll find it fun to drive because we tell you it's fun to drive. Sigh.

Agreed. I love driving my Big Healey for the sounds as much as the thrill of speed.