Yes it is, but it is called parenthood. I have also come to advocate for napping in the car in parking lots if you feel yourself really start to go down the whole exhaustion route too. Better late than hurting yourself or someone else. 

OK, so when Jerry Lundergard committed this fraud in the fictional 80's, computer controls were rudimentary. How in hell did they submit the same VIN to FoMoCo financing twice and receive a loan each time? I get that it is from different show room floors, but that sounds like a red flag right there. 

That’s true. It is a change in routine that is the basis for the problem. If you have reduced carting the kid around to muscle memory then you probably aren’t going to make the mistake, but if you do forget the kid I just don’t see how the bracelet is guaranteed to break me out of that. 

Same! I have never done this, and I feel that I never would ... but so did all the people who actually did it. That’s the problem. When you get complacent, that is when bad things happen. Everyone needs to try to guard against this no matter how unlikely they think it will be. I still get my 4 year old out of the car…

I was not asserting that I am the best parent in the world. I am saying that this could happen to ANYONE, and it can. 

The problem is that if you are in such a haze as to forget that your baby is in the backseat, you probably aren’t going to remember this thing is around your wrist. I like the shoe idea better because step on one painful thing, and you will remember where your shoe is. 

That’s a nice idea. I like it because it requires the thought to take off the shoe at the same time you put the baby in the seat, when you are most likely to remember to do it. Being the parent of an infant is so exhausting, especially if you work too, forgetting the baby is something anyone can do. That’s the scary…

Not quite as old as you. Thanks for your perspective. I remember opposite day fueling, limited driving, speed restrictions to conserve fuel. What a bloody mess the 70's were. It is notable that one of the closest advisers Bill Clinton had was Richard Nixon. 

Even Ferraris had 85MPH speedometers. That was when you knew it was just absurd. 

Actually what I like in that photo is the recessed cigarette lighter. I have one of those in my Alfa. Put the cigarette in, push the collar, and pick up a lit cigarette 15 seconds later. No putting a glowing orange circle in front of your face while you are driving. Down side ... I smoke cigars. There is a reason that…

Two things I remember from his early days at FIAT. First, as he was getting to know how completely balkanized the FIAT management culture was with managers dictating memos to other managers two offices away, he fired the lot of them and promoted a kid from Lancia to senior management because he actually went and spoke…

I have some experience with this. My property borders on a 4 lane highway, which was an OK neighbor. It was a good distance of lawn, which must remain lawn because of the easement the county has for the massive sewage pipe running under there, but then there was a stream and a large number of medium mature trees,…

Vines help alot ... they also cause the wall to deteriorate, which would require replacement. DOTs remove vines, and if people are caught planting them there is a large fine where I live. 

Yeah, you got some issues to work out man. Serious issues. I mean the whole LGBTQ thing might by OK now, and BDSM less of an underground scene, but their ain’t no multi-color flag for Narrow track fetishists is all that I am saying. 

From what I have seen on a Bring A Trailer, he doesn’t have the budget for another V Wagon, at least if it was a manual. An automatic he could probably pick up. Nuts what these things are going for. 

Of the two Dasher wagons my mother owned, the first one lost its FI system catastrophically twice, thermostat imploded for some reason, brakes catastrophically failed on a hill leaving my mother to roll through a stop sign and fortunately for her up her parents’ immensely long driveway where she was able to stop the…

This couldn’t be truer. My grand parents had a 1974 412 that had been mucked about to try to meet US emissions standards. No mechanic at the dealer or elsewhere could fix it or had the slightest idea how it worked so out with the 412 and in with the Audi sourced Dasher (as known in the US market) then known as the…

Glad that it is a positive move for you, and have fun. I hope to read you writing about motorsports again. Seriously, it was fun. Now go have fun you crazy kid!

I just wanted to reiterate what Andrew Collins said. Stef made me care about racing again. Something I haven’t done in decades. Her passion and deep understanding of what makes motorsports fun is why she was great to read. I guess that the higher ups felt that she didn’t get enough comments or something, but it is a…

It’s funny, I was just thinking about the Karate Kid last week when I hand waxed my lacquer painted ‘72 Mercedes. It really does get to the point of wax on/ wax off. Personally, I hate orbital buffers. Most people who use them don’t change the pads often enough to make them polish correctly. I would also say that if…