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Every monsoon season, people with usually jacked-up pickups or garden-variety SUVs get towed out of washes ... usually after driving around the barricades blocking the way. Governments being what governments are, Arizona made itself a, “stupid motorist law.” Really, that’s it’s name. You go around a barricade to drive…

Enlist. Audition during basic training. Get assigned to the Air Force Band. Get assigned to Japan. Leave the base to truly live in Japan. Simple.

Still, really glad I learned to drive in Chicago. If you can drive both a car and a bike in the craziness that is regular Chicago traffic, you can drive safely anywhere.

Given that chained wallets are classic biker gear, it’s not hipster nor redneck at all. Having one was just common sense, as was wearing leather since it lets you slide instead of tumble if you go down.

Spent my first six months living in Phoenix commuting 30 miles each way on my Sportster. Early on, opted for the Joe Rocket mesh-with-armor jacket and soak-in-water-evaporative cooling vest. You haven’t lived until you’re stuck in crawling rush hour traffic at the highest temp of the day, about 110, and, since it’s…

Don’t hold back now. How do you really feel?

Marketing: the dark art of convincing people to buy something they neither need nor want. Examples include preselected produce delivered in a box, Apple Music, and autonomous vehicles.

This. All of this. Exactly this.

Does he own a house? Wonder how much a person can get in a civil suit for sexual harassment, false arrest, and perhaps even kidnapping?

And it was created by an insane Nazi. Don’t hold back, now. How do you really feel?

But the Gremlins were cool as were the Pintos until we learned they were fiery death traps.

Yep. They rode that huge engine, huge car formula almost into the grave when the Japanese handed them their asses during the gas, “shortages,” and EPA-rules introduction. Their response? They made Chevettes.

And, yet, the accessory of the spare tire mounted at the rear, on the bumper with body-color-matching cover is called a ... Continental Kit. Just sayin’

Finally, a luxo-barge that isn’t a tricked-out truck. But ... is it just me, or does it look naked without a, “Continental bulge,” at the back?

Prices for IH trucks are starting to get nutso-too-high. Makes sense, though, because they are becoming ever-more-rare. Learned to drive at 12 in my grandfather’s 1956 IH B-Series pickup with a basic, “here’s how the clutch and gas work, here’s how the brakes work, you have 20 acres, don’t go in the river.” On the way…

Those cars really were that big. You could serve dinner for 4 in the back seat of a ‘56 Buick. Hell, you could hold a prom in a Caddy.

A contract is a contract.

This one. “When I win the Lottery ... ”

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