...not before having your horn tuned, upgrading to radial windshield wiper blades and getting a mudflap alignment...

As a fan of MS-DOS who resisted the conversion to windows, I can tell you that it doesn’t end well.

gimme a six pack, a sawzall and an EBay account and I’ll salvage enough Lambo trinkets to cover the cost (of towing. maybe.)

I’m surprised no one charges for “headlight alignment”. Almost anyone can be convinced that their lights don’t shine where they think they should. A few minutes [depending on the car] of twiddling and cleaning can make enough of a difference that it seems to have value.

back in the day...my buddy and I drove a few hundred miles to pick up some parts at a specialty shop devoted to our particular taste in vehicles. They’d been up and running for a couple of years as a catalog business but weren’t prepared for walk-ins. Leading us through a garage and past a couple of storage sheds, the…

I think someone already tried that and called it a Samurai. Crucified by the safety nazis at Consumer Repots, it was nonetheless a competent and practical vehicle. Put over 100k on mine before passing it along.

Long roof, manual transmission, how did Tracy miss this one?

Watch “Little Miss Sunshine”. It’s where you stow uncle Alan Arkin.

I get it. Growing up in southern NY state, the ‘Joisy Tunpike’ was an on-ramp to somewhere special. Whether on my way to deliver a snowbird’s Buick to Boca Raton, visit a girlfriend studying at a Virginia college, or test a newly built Corvair engine on a trip to a convention in Minnesota, there was an adventure…

a friend of mine put 3-pipe exhaust tips on each side of a 1973 Capri with a single exhaust. You were unlikely to notice that only one pipe was blowing smoke since you already concluded that he was groping for attention with six pipes coming off his tail

while keeping in mind that much of what arrives here from overseas has already been in production somewhere for a while

depends on how high up you are...I once lived in a 14th floor apartment that had no screens and never needed them. Most bugs don’t fly that high.

that’s why you carry a shovel to fill the bed with snow and gain a few extra....tractions (?)

...with a clever fix, I’m sure, and a sly wink when suggesting a blinker fluid flush and an upgrade to radial wiper blades...

...and I only wish that I had the funds for a SportCross when I had to settle for a WRX wagon that -with responsible adult use- ate a clutch and two engines by 40,000 miles

The world would be better served by eliminating the rear doors on half the compact trucks and SUVs that are sold to people who lack both a need to carry rear passengers and any options in the marketplace.

Had a ‘67 Chevy Biscayne that cost me all of $15 and [with a few small repairs] I drove back and forth between NY and Virginia for a year. My finances stabilized, I upgraded my ride to a 1968 Corvair, and sold the car to a friend of a friend of a friend....I learned of its subsequent adventures when he ran from a hit…

we’ll eventually read that she subsequently tried to hire an undercover cop who she thought was a hit man to kill the husband who murdered the Asian and learned the hard way that’s not how double jeopardy works

I once (1970s) worked for a supermarket chain that pulled old trailers out of service and offered them to employees, delivered to the location of their choice for $500...a great deal for the guys that could live in our ratty, battered boxes as a hunting camp for a few days at a time, but those were the only takers I…

While Subaru would have lost me over the CVT, the lack of a hatchback or wagon drove me away years ago.