I am cursed in that I have associated memories with most all of my stuff. As I grow older, the memories are more bitter-sweet. Here is Dad’s knife, there is that Leatherman that my friend who died said I should buy. I’ve pondered whether to tag each item so they will carry their own stories outside of me. I even…

1964 Chevy II. Hell, I’m older than that even, so no great feat.

I saw Eleanor when it was on tour with the movie in it’s initial run. It was on the street right out in front the theater, this was before the multiplex cinemas. My uncle was a gearhead and loved movies like this. Years later after I grew up I found a VHS copy of “Gone..” and out of the blue I asked him, “Hey, guess…

How is a privately owned fire truck a “commercial vehicle”? It is not used in the course of this man’s business, therefore it is a private vehicle. If a Smart Car is painted up with an Apothecary logo and used to deliver prescriptions, then it is a commercial vehicle. If a Greyhound bus is restored and used to take…

You guys and all your math. The Holley carb on my Trans Am was rated 850 cfm (Cubic Feet per Minute) back in the day. The manufacturer told you how much air the thing would draw. (That’s 24 cubic meters approximately).

Is it any wonder why so many people despise CEOs? This dick can’t even stand to take a $1 million hit on a car he got to enjoy, if the report is true. Hopefully the word is now out about this chintzy son-of-a-bitch, and nobody believes anything about any car he has ever owned.

Keep this nonsense up and it won’t be too much longer before cars will be required to have speed limiters when they are on public roads. 10 years ago they talked about the GT-R knowing when it was on a track so it could uncap its full potential. Nearly every car these days has the ability to know where it is being…

You can’t invert the nozzle. Hold it right side up and let the hose swivel back up along side if you need to. I pump from the “wrong” side whenever the warehouse club left-side pumps are full.

Starred for owning a Trans Am. (‘79 4-spd TATA owner myself). Trans Am owners don’t worry about rear-end collisions, cause we never sit still long enough or go slow enough for them to happen. All the accidents I had were front enders.

Who forgets which side their call fills on? I guess people who own multiple cars with different fill sides. Anyhow, I’m fortunate that I have all left-fill cars, so no issues here.

Good. Do this. Everytime.

Come on. HEI is a good thing.

No. No. No. I’m old enough to know that my car will (likely) last longer than several generations of consumer hardware and many generations of software. Heck, my driver is a 2006, which predates the iPhone. It was state of the art for its day (Handsfree Bluetooth / DVD / Nav / Voice Control) and I use NONE of that…

Everyone wearing their seatbelt can not decrease fatalities by 50%. If seatbelt use is at 86% and yet they still comprise about 50% of the fatalities on the road, then getting the other 14% to wear seatbelts will not result in all of that population being saved. Now my math is very rusty, but I believe the best you…

Someone’s dad didn’t teach him how to wipe. I find it hard to believe that a grown man wads TP. That’s a 3 year old’s move. Depending upon the nature of the bowel movement, going in with 4 is the maximum for the first one (quad fold), 3 for the second (trifold) and then doubles is the plan. If it’s obvious its going…

Not like I’m in the market for the car, but my quibble on an otherwise nice, original car is that goofy mounting of the aftermarket cruise control on the corner of the instrument cluster. It appears to be glued on or something. It was meant to be mounted on a bobbed turn signal stalk (I should know, I had a car with…

Pulling the ABS fuse can be a good thing. I had a 94 S10 that had serious ABS system problems. On two occassions I hit a car in trying to brake in wet conditions (I had no braking at all). It was subject to a recall later because it was found to a problem with others. The “fix” still didn’t remedy the problem, so I…

Which is worse? Climbing in and out of this spiderweb of safety or getting your carotid artery severed when your malfunctioning airbag goes off?

Great. A car that handles like a boat and gets 9 mpg. for 6 grand. (Don’t hate me, I drove 2 of these a 1977 350 and an 86 307.) If you want a Custom Cruiser with some pep and that can get double digit mpg, find one with the 350, there was a night and day difference in power between that one and the awful 307.