I came here to say this too: You had something resembling actual competition in the 1970's, there was more technical parity and fewer processional races.

How easy was it to insure?  Do you have to go to a collector car insurance company like Hagerty?

No need to cut up the coin tray to make the fold-up model. Just do a pencil-rubbing of that design onto a piece of paper and cut up and fold the paper into a 3-d model. It should be much easier.

I owned two Civics made in Alliston, an ‘89 and a ‘98.  When I got the ‘89, the salesman said the Canadian factory had just started production.

Is that a typo, or did it really say “either” instead of “neither”?

Try googling the word “queef”.

Today I learned:

Ironically, a recent study by a bunch of lawyers in Illinois rated Utah’s drivers as the tenth-best in the nation...

1978 Volkswagen Rabbit. It left me stranded on the road at least three times in only a few years of ownership. The fuel pump relay was replaced under recall and it still didn’t work.

Yes, I can remember that hackneyed joke about Chinese food being told by Dean Martin-generation comedians on TV back in the 1960's-1970's. Definitely a WW2 generation joke.  It probably dates from a time when Chinese food was new and exotic to most Americans.

Sunroof. I will go out of my way to avoid cars with a sunroof.

My favorite example of an inadvertently funny passive voice construction is one that’s typically heard in connection with scandals: “Mistakes were made...”

I have already complained about this earlier on Jalopnik, but when Hyundai offered the Elantra GT N-line (US market version of i30) in the US a couple of years ago, I checked and there were NONE in stock in a 200+ mile radius. I wonder why they didn’t sell many??

It’s not a matter of being hard, it’s a matter of having FUN while driving, instead of driving a two-pedal transportation appliance.

The current 10th-gen Si was always a 6MT-only sedan, it never came with the CVT. Same with the Type-R Hatch.

1969 Dodge Daytona and its fraternal corporate twin, the 1970 Plymouth Superbird. I thought it was so cool that they would make those radical body modifications based on wind tunnel data and sell the car to the public in order to certify it for NASCAR racing.

The only other case I’ve heard of where a car was totaled due to water leaking in through the sunroof was on a VW GTI. That’s why I posted my response to Tom’s story, I don’t have first hand experience, fortunately.

Haha. I’ve got a Mazda3 now. I toy with getting a GTI at times, but if I ever do, it definitely has to be an S with 6MT, plaid upholstery, and NO sunroof!

Yep, that’s my take-away.

Hey Tom, you should have gotten a VW GTI!   They install the leaky sunroof direct at the factory, no need for aftermarket modifications.