He probably calls the CBC to complain about Don Cherry's suits too.

They are going to overpay then; one of my wife's relatives bought a house in Hamtramck for $450.

I owned a SM and a DS; once you understand the system it is really not that bad - it just looks frightening. There are scary things (like removing the transmission) but you don't run across those problems as often.

In 1980, a Citroen SM on standard radial tires. We didn't plow our driveway so the height control came in handy. Runner-up was a BMW motorcycle with sidecar that I drove for most of the winter after I crashed my 1982 Celica in an ice storm (on summer tires).

Pretty cool. While I just touch 50mpg in my 75% Jalopnik ideal Sportwagen (manual, diesel, wagon, but sadly not brown), and my wife gets 45mpg in her 50% Jalopnik ideal Sportwagen (DSG, diesel, wagon, not brown) more efficiency and torque are always welcome.

The interior looks like it has the same hardpoints as the Solstice/Sky. I wonder if it used the same chassis pan as the Solstice?

In my eyes, they ruined a nice old Corvair. CP

Looks like a Highland bull. Male and female Highlands have horns, but the males sweep forward and the females tend to sweep upright. There are farms where I live in New Hampshire that have Highlands; they are better acclimated to the weather and will forage on more grasses.

Best Worcester story ever!

Not slow enough; I've owned a Renault Dauphine. -That- would be an interesting car to race in this sort of challenge!

Yuengling would be looked at as a high-end beer here in upstate NH, where tonight the locals will be stocking up on their cubes of Natty Light at the local Circle K on their way home.

Here's a RAM police truck in NH.

APL... I think I still have a book for APL/360 at home. The Physics majors were in love with it. There was a special IBM Selectric that was connected into the computer system that you had to use to be able to program it because of all the greek letters and other special characters. I haven't thought about that in a…

Since I am old as dirt, I had to wait until college to mess with ASR33s. (I took a college class in high school where I used punch cards to program). Non-printing character foolishness or incessant bell-ringing was fun, but the absolute best thing to do with an ASR33 with a tape punch was:

NP. B body wagons are awesome. Anything that can live that long in this environment is good. They're cheap and easy to fix, can tow 5000 pounds with the tow package (IIRC 3500 without), carry huge amounts of stuff and can eat up the road at goodly speeds. Here in rust-prone New England, there are still plenty of these…

They are only a half-hour away from my in-laws. Now there's a reason to go visit the in-laws more often!

Last I knew gasoline was running about $1.40/l up there. The big problem is the sparseness of gas stations; at the worst it's about 300km between two of the stations IIRC. With a gas pig like this, you'll want to carry extra fuel.

This would be awesome to go camping with up in the wilds of Newfoundland and Labrador. The only downside I see is having to carry a lot of extra jerry cans to have enough fuel for the between civilization runs.

When I was a kid, the New York City Public Library had a commercial which had children singing; the chorus went, "It's the latest, it's the greatest, it's the li-berry!" I'd guess it was on sometime in the 60s.

That picture of Youppi in Vieux Montréal looks disturbingly like me in the mid-70s after a night on Rue Ste-Catherine.