I would love to see that happen, even if it's just a few ceremonial planes kept on the books until then. This is probably the most incredible and storied aircraft in the US inventory, and it still has another 30 years to write itself further into the history books.

Oh absolutely. It'll also get marked down for not having a diesel wagon version with manual transmission. Such is the confusing, sometimes ADHD riddled hypocritical life of an auto journalist.

The fact that the YB-52 first flew in 1952, and the projected end of service of the BUFF is nearly 2050, is astounding. Just think about that. When this aircraft retires, it will have been in constant service for almost 100 years. I have a hard time wrapping my head around that.

GM actually pioneered this tech a generation ago, on 80's Firebirds. Except it only molted once, and then the clearcoat never came back.

I look forward to the follow up models, the Colt, Dolt, Molt, Holt, and Jolt.

I wouldn't use the word 'Pretty' within three counties of that car.

That idea is so laughably insulated it's unreal. You know how a majority of the world's trade travels? By sea. If you have a Navy that can't protect shipping beyond 20 miles from your shore, and then the navy that you're leaning on for protection decides to leave, where does that leave you? At the mercy of anyone who…

I'd say the pain that came with the decision by the UK to *maybe* keep their second new carrier from immediately being mothballed, meaning one should be available a majority of the time, is a good indicator of current mindset for European defense. The state of air and naval forces in Europe is one of barely acceptable…

That would have gotten expensive every morning! I had a bra on the front of the car that was the main reason behind the frozenness...the extra bulk of the strapped on leather headlight cover took up most of the gap to the other panels. It also made it extremely difficult to unfreeze all the crevices. The last year I…

I live in New England and I daily drove it through two winters, with one of those being with summer performance tires because I was a poor college student and couldn't afford anything else. The near 50/50 weight balance to start off with means these things are only one or two sandbags away from being amazing…

The danger of doing that in the Porsche was that electrical things had to be disconnected. And half the electrical things on the 944 had VW emblems. And the other half had Porsche lettering. This means that you were practically guaranteed to somehow get the rear wiper stuck on, or permanently disable the heater fan.

I used to have to pour boiling hot water over my Porsche 944 headlights in the morning to get them to open up. It was a catch-22 because then they might freeze open during the drive in and you'd have to do the same thing to get them to close. Any way you do it, you look incredibly stupid.

I went to go edit that to make it clear but the post was already locked. He went through a string of Buicks and then the Lincoln is the most recent. He's one of those guys who trades at least once a year and goes for something different.

Glad you were able to get through the whole post ;)

Were you the guy that got yelled at last month for not turning off the hallway lights when no one was walking in them?

For the longest time when I was a kid, I thought the old saying "trip over a quarter to pick up a dime" was said first by one of his employees.

I'm good friends with him. My father worked for him for years, and I'm running a company he originally started with his son. As with most entrepreneurs, he makes some brilliant moves, and he also has some traits that leave everyone scratching their head. My father used to tell me some hilarious stories. Like the time…

I know a guy who has one of these. He owned his own company for years. He made money, but he did things that make no sense. Like, he decided he'd save money by not buying himself a new office chair for 15 years. So he duct taped his armrests back together when they fell apart. And proceeded to buy new suits every…

I would have guessed you were putting it somewhere in the grille to break up the black hole of styling.