Aramco probably has more of an influence on peoples lives than any other company they’ve never heard of

Don’t know what your passenger and cargo requirements may be, but Mini may have a JCW that meets your needs.....they do for mine

I’ve long been told that you should never trust anyone who’s got a city in their name, like Sarasota Sam or Memphis Mike. Probably cost me a few good friends who’d never been to Indiana...

My car was once hit by a deer....parked in my driveway, alongside a 4' high retaining wall that bordered my neighbor’s lawn. Apparently a deer running across the lawn didn’t realize where it ended and flew on to the hood of my X4, leaving a trail of hair and deer shit all over the $3,000 worth of damage it caused.…

been living in the river since the spring thaw

I once bought a 1965 Corvair convertible for $35, with a structure so rusty the doors wouldn’t close. Beneath the passenger seat was a book of AA guidance, several empty vodka bottles and a thermos filled with vomit.

skip the hammocks, just remove the bin doors, lay in a foam mattress pad and market them as sleeper cabins 

still can’t match a good steam engine/flywheel hybrid

only if it can be had with a hand-cranked sunroof, AM radio and hump-mounted 8-track tape deck like the one some lowlife swiped from my father’s ‘66 Galaxie on a rare trip to Manhattan

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”