Having just come back from a family road trip, I’d go for a soda fountain. With an 8 hour ride still ahead of me, I asked my daughter for a Diet Coke from the cooler in back, and she said ‘No”. No reason. She just didn’t want to be bothered.

I wanted a set of louvers on my Trans Am back then.  Glad I never went through with that.

Getting wet while strolling in the rain is the risk you assume. Yeah, this guy shouldn’t purposely do this, but come on now. Let him keep his job. Being an American, this doesn’t even move the needle on my antisocial behavior gauge. We shoot people down here. In Canada, getting people damp maxes out the societal…

Best automatic shifter ever, IMHO. But I’m biased as I had one in my first car.

Wile E. Coyote ain’t got nothing on Lapchik the Hungarian. That guy never quit.

No doubt. As someone else commented, its just unfortunate. The first time I heard the TRD/turd pronunciation was by a Toyota truck owner whose vehicle sported the TRD logo.

TuRD.  I can’t help but thinking that every time I see it on a Toyota.

Ever hear of an implied warranty of merchantability? By selling something commonly known as a ‘car’, the seller implies the thing they are selling will continue to be usable as car, and not a barbeque, for a reasonable period of time. Life isn’t always, too bad, fuck you.  By that reasoning, the US government should…

She should call the lienholder and explain the situation. Tell them that they are now holding an unsecured note as now even their shitty KIA is gone.  Ask them what they want as settlement in full.  If they won’t work with her, then stop paying.  They’ll sue her, but if she protects herself by taking all her money out…

Where does civilian in possession of a firearm fit into this classification? Do side arms or hunting firearms possessed in an area of conflict move them out of the civilian classification? How about civilian police forces? Does a pseudo-militarized police force that utilizes small arms indistinguishable from military…

3060 lbs?  Cars are getting more and more porky.  My ‘06 5-speed Corolla CE is 2530 lbs.

Naaah.  Give me a Wide-Track Pontiac any day.

When I was a kid, I made up my own version of Mumblety Peg involving a knife and a motorcycle. (It probably wasn’t so much Mumblety Peg as it was throwing and retrieving knives while going as fast as I could go.) I would ride and toss the knife so as to stick in the ground, and then turn around and try to retrieve it…

I remember a long time ago I was putting new carpeting in my car and right in the middle of the job, I felt a hunger pang.  While the carpet was in, the seats weren’t but I didn’t let that stop me from driving over to the McDonalds sitting flat on the floor.

I recall in college we had a rather eclectic group of theatre majors, computer science majors and myself, the lone chemistry major, in our cafeteria meal bunch. Talk got around to cars and we were going around the table telling about what we drove. When it was one young lady’s turn, she could only tell us that her car…

The ex-Apple employee stole a circuit board design?  How useless.  In another life, I designed circuit boards and went to a board fab facility that was making boards for a defense contractor among other commercial items.  Nobody cared if the circuit board was stolen because all the important ‘stuff’ is in the ASICs…

To be fair, Evel seemed to do these things with a lot of seat-of-the-pants calculation and questionable engineering. Watching the replays of Evel’s fountain jump, it seems his landing ramp was just a janky wooden plank straight wedge affair. I’ve no doubt that Travis’ takeoff and landing ramps are meticulously…

This is my all time favorite.

The owner will just bankrupt the corporation that ‘owns’ the restaurant. That corp likely rents the property from a landlord or from a separate holding company under their control.  The woman might win a few warming tables and some other miscellaneous restaurant equipment, but no money.

Tesla, the car company for masochists.