I dunno about that...having once been rear-ended by a dump truck with claimed brake failure that mangled my rear bumper and actually bent the glass in my rear window. So what, you say....I was driving a Suzuki Samurai. The insurance payout was about 1/3 the value of my ‘car’, so $116 for new tail lights and some scrap …

Second that on the concrete blocks. Know of two local fatalities in which they were involved. I cut 6 x 6 lumber into useful blocks to stabilize every lift made with my trolley and scissor jacks. Can’t remember a time when I wasn’t so safety-paranoid that I didn’t use them all.

another example of ‘just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should’...

so what to do in year two of your ownership?

Bravo, and congratulations. Acquisition of a Solstice/Sky has held a firm place on my bucket list for a long time.

I had a friend with a body shop and a small used car lot who loaned me dealer plates many times to bring home the junk I bought. On one occasion, I had only a rear plate and was flagged down by a cop at a NYC bridge toll plaza. I said two words “dealer plate”, and he waved me through.

...more like a F&F 5.5, with Dom and his crew stranded in Massachusetts without their usual hardware and needing sweet rides to thwart thieves more thievin’ than themselves, locate the dealer’s stash and cherry-pick cars from the garage, with car-guy dialogue about how a Supra turbo is more or less likely to blow…

that was a weird time for Nissan, with three models of similar size and performance spec. The Altima, Maxima and Infiniti G35 were all about the same size and shared the VQ 3.5 in different states of tune. Of course two were FWD and the G35 was rear (later AWD) and each was targeted to a different demographic but were …

Sorry, but can’t disagree more about the houndstooth. In an otherwise perfect car, it would be a dealbreaker for me. Hate the look.

To make things easier for my aging eyes, I’ve been running my laptop out to a 46" monitor and have lost any taste for those dinky screens unless I’m traveling.

To make things easier for my aging eyes, I’ve been running my laptop out to a 46" monitor and have lost any taste for…

gotta love the driver trainee’s response when one kid asks what happened...”you don’t want to know”

I’ve been able to keep my habit under control, mainly because I moved from walking distance to 10 miles away from the only bookstore around here that carries them. Still, every occasional fix costs me $50 for a 35 quid’s worth of cover prices.

My pharmacist kindly provides me with amber vials perfectly sized for about$5 worth of toll and meter food 

Florida man seems to handle the culling pretty well himselves. I go with the sentient, hungry bridge hypothesis.

Diver Dom would seal up the electrical components, turn the trunk into a big tank of compressed oxygen and put some check valves in the exhaust to beat the greedy salvage divers to Porsche and Lamborghini engines for the poor kids in east LA to stuff into old Hondas.

people talk EV, high performance versions, special editions and upmarket content, but can we please have........a two door?

all these critiques of aesthetics and hardly a word about accumulating dust, dirt, snow and slush. whether you clean them yourself or you’re a fancy boy who has grime-servants to do it, some will look like shit until it’s done and some others...not so much

Then again...listen to as much of what they have to say as you can. Even though they think they’re talking up a car’s high points, not only do they often drop a good bit of info about its shortcomings, they reveal how much they actually know about a car and its problems. I once scored a ‘67 Chevy for $15 because, to…

show me a deed

Nicely done. Stripped a few interiors down to the paint/rust/holes myself, and can appreciate the work involved. Either it’s caked with an ungodly stew of crap that takes hours to scrape off or it’s in much better shape than you thought and now you’ve got to figure out a way to replace or fabricate all the clips that…