I just bought a 2000 Volvo V40 wagon with 61k miles. Immaculate interior. Decent paint. It needs new wiper arms because the new blades I installed aren’t making full contact with the windshield. The turn signal self-cancel only works intermittently. Other than a couple of burned out lights behind the console,…

The Simpsons did it better:

There but for the grace of God ... or something.

You misspelled “BenGaZZi”

In the words of the great poet Rodney Anonymous:

Sorry, I didn’t realize that article was from before the charges were filed. It took a couple of weeks to investigate and charge the guy. (And now I can’t add a link. If you Google “brookhaven gas spill george smith inquirer” you’ll get a story from the day the charges were filed.)

Not as bad as this special species of asshole who dumped nearly 5,000 gallons of his tanker’s load into a swale so that he could finish his route faster.

If you’re ever really in Des Moines, check out the High Life: The Champaign of Bars. Pretty cool place. Also, be sure to stop at an A&W and order the cheese curds.

My backing in story: Driving my family to my daughter’s soccer tournament. I’m the coach. We pull into the parking lot at the park and I see a spot. I quickly and smoothly pull into it and only after we stop do I notice another car uncomfortably close off the right quarter. He honks irately and pulls away to park in a…

Does anyone else see a flash from the cab of the truck right around 0.28 in the news report video? Any idea what that is?

This totally ignores the third option — longitudinal seating, as featured in my parents’ 1976 Mercury Marquis wagon. It had two seats that folded up from the cargo floor facing each other. It was possible to load four wee sprogs back there, but I imagine it was technically only legal to have two “way back” passengers,…

In the middle of nowhere on I-80 in Nebraska.

This is reminiscent of the time between 1986 and 1989, or so, when aftermarket center high mounted stop lamps were a big thing. God forbid you be seen in your 1985 Datsun without that new, funky third tail light.

No news here. It’s like every other “toy” industry. The vast majority of people can’t afford boats, bikes, RVs, airplanes. Thirty or forty years ago those things were solidly in reach of people with blue collar union jobs or college degrees. Now the same people are fighting for their homes. 

The same way reciprocating aircraft engines cope with altitude. Big Ass Turbochargers.

This is incorrect. Source: I owned an AllTrac-equipped 1989 Camry.

I honestly can’t remember. I would assume it was RHD because it was sold in the UK, but it wouldn’t have seemed strange to me if it was LHD because that’s what I was used to seeing by that point in my life.

I recently rediscovered three 2CV sales brochures in my attic. My grandfather, who owned one in the UK in the 80s, sent them to me here in the states. If you look closely at the specs page, you can see what appears to be hand written price quotes. I figured this was as good a time as any to share one.

Kind of surprised no one has mentioned GM’s locomotive division:

Chrysler also made sailboats, which are fairly well regarded and remain available on the used market today.