I have a great idea for a phone-sharing app. People would leave smartphones just wherever around the city and you would then use an app on your phone to find one and activate it for use while you are out and about. When you are done with the phone, just leave it wherever for the next user!

The ATC90 I rode occasionally had way too little torque and way too much tire patch to do anything but flip of you tried to hang the tail out. Those big low pressure balloon tires also didn’t have much sidewall strength to do anything but roll under in a turn. I loved those things too, and they were good at donuts,…

Yup. Many, many years ago I messed around with Honda ATC 70 three-wheelers (the tiny pit-bike sized ones) and putting the things into a drift was the way to turn at speed if you don’t want to roll over. But, putting them up on two wheels could be fun too.

I want to know how he did the headlamps. Photos with the headlamps on please! Pop-up or Flip-around?

Oh please let the word ‘quirky’ die when it comes to cars. I’ve completely stopped listening to DeMuro and his inane comments about this quirk and that quirk and how this car is the quirkiest car ever. Give it a rest already.

Here’s a Japanese ad, that I’m pretty sure is the same thing:

What a bad idea. (Renting a motorcycle). There are reasons that most motorcycle dealerships will not allow test rides.

Something is going on in the maintenance shop. Some cop shops use jail trustees to work on the cars, many not. Somebody put engine coolant or transmission fluid in the wrong hole, or ran the engine dry to get out all of that nasty old oil. That would be my bet.

I remember when Chrysler was on the edge of bankruptcy in the 1970s, there were large “autoshows” where vast amounts of Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth inventory were brought to a central location and people were begged to come and buy and drive away in their new vehicle. I coerced my parents to go to the one in our town and…

Hats off to the white SUV in the #1 turn lane. He had the situational awareness that something was going down and stopped, but then again he also had the best view of what was going down on his left. The dark RAV4 was far enough ahead of the white SUV that he should have seen it too, but fortunately for the rider, he…

I used to drive I-40 in Arkansas, and the road was atrocious. Driving in the right lane subjected you to bouncing and noise due to the banana shaped concrete and deteriorated expansion joints. I’d travel in the left lane until an overtaking car came and I’d move right. If the roads are good, then fine, but if you have…

Fucking-A. And if you needed to carry more than 2 adult or 3 kid passengers, someone got to ride in the bed. I grew up riding in farm trucks every summer and the best seat wasn’t in the cab, it was on one of the wheel well humps in the bed (unless it was particularly sunny and hot and the A/C in the cab happened to be…

I had a situation where repeated flight cancellations due to weather forced me to cancel two different hotel reservations I had made through Hotels.com I explained my situation and they talked to the hotels and got my reservations canceled with no fee or penalty.

I understand that in later years anyone at IH disavowed that they had anything to do with this. That is not true. The contractor that did work on my parents’ house (and who was the dad of one of my classmates) drove a Johnnie Reb. This was a real thing. It seems IH didn’t want Dodge to be the only one with a Warner…

And the very politically incorrect Johnnie Reb edition International Harvester truck. It was sold in the south in the early 70s with its own stars and bars graphic package in confederate gray. No kidding.

The “20ft” you are using is hogwash. You can see the woman’s shoes in the video quite clearly just as the time turns 5 seconds, she is hit sometime after 6 seconds. 1 second at 45 mph is 66 feet. This woman was visible in the crummy color night camera 66 feet in front of the car and it still hit her. Just for funsies…

Skittles and beer? Seemed very anachronistic to me since Skittles candy didn’t come around until 1974 in Britain and the 1980s in the US, and this video looks very old...seems the song was from 1959. Turns out that skittles is a bowling game played with 9 pins and a wooden ball.

Last year I helped a friend buy a car from a dealer. Yes, it was older and low-spec, not pretty but solid mechanically nonetheless. We think it must have been sitting on the lot awhile because it was no problem getting them to go off $1500 on the asking price. They accepted so fast, I think they would have even taken…

The Villager Nautica was the first vehicle that someone I knew bought on the internet. I was working with this guy and he and his wife had a ‘thing’ for a Villager Nautica. He searched all over and found it on Ebay in Kansas and I thought he was insane for buying a car sight unseen on the internet. He even had it…

I think he has a shot. He bought a genuine artifact that came complete with the logo and other ‘trade dress’. He is not calling himself Dominos or promoting a business that uses Dominos name or logo. He bought a delivery vehicle at auction, as-is, and simply restored it. There are likely countless examples of private…