Never heard it called dog tracking, we called it Crabbing and it was always the result of broken rear suspension bits or shade tree mechanics reversing a leaf spring.

Since this is FCA I’m assuming this is on a Jeep platform, so how much did they share?

Do that in NJ and I’ll guarantee you a BMW/Acura will use that as an express lane to the head of the line :(

Future Monday Meh Car, owners get bored and sell them after a few miles :(

Oh I’m feeling your pain, I was a parts manager for a dealership that had one of these as a service car with dealer plates on it so it didn’t need inspections which was a good thing, it never would have passed. You know why most drive with the door open, it won’t stay closed :(

I had a few customers with SM’s, all engineers who had mostly driven SAAB’s before and not being mobile usually wasn’t the problem. That was back in the day when foreign car owners were as interesting as their cars. Today it’s either they bought it because it was cheap or a status symbol :(

I’m glad they told us that’s a BMW because I might have mistook it for , maybe a Kia or the rebirth of the Yugo. Their styling department must be on vacation too, like Jaopnik every weekend doing reruns :(

Unfortunately this is not an isolated incident, around 1980 there “was” a transmission shop on 37 in Tom’s River NJ that was scooping up iron filings under the brake turning lathe at a local auto parts store, I think it was Norwood Auto Parts that turned them in.

I was working for Rover at the time, most Americans didn’t understand the Park/Side switch. We had a lot of customers come in complaining that half their parking lights didn’t work. French cars had the switch under the column, they’d bump it with their knee, same complaint.

I’m wondering how thin your walls must be that a crook could hear a voice inside :(

As auto crosses go that’s a small course that favors small cars. I used to run at Pa., MD, NY and NJ events and that’s the smallest I’ve ever seen.

I was on an inter island flight in Indonesia that had roaches, one woman said the head wasn’t usable. What she meant was the fiberglass tank had a crack and you could see the blue shit floating around. They had put air freshener crystals in the sink so you couldn’t use that either.

Sounds right because I’m sure the Yugo production line uses pliers and quarters as it’s only tools plus that quarter upped the trade in value 25%

Nope, he actually read the owners manual and that washing machine is over the weight limit for the roof rack. It didn’t have a weight limit listed for the hood so he is good !

The weirdest one was the first “wide track” Pontiac bodies built in Canada but put on narrow track Chevrolet frames. The wheels looked lost in the wells :(

Beep Beep

I had bought one of these for my daughter when she lived down a long dirt road, when she moved I took it for hauling scuba gear and towing the sailboat. With 250k on it it still passed emission test :) However the exhaust system was designed by Rube Goldberg and when it needed replacing I went with a hot rod muffler…

At an RV show I had a salesman trying to sell me one of those overpriced lots. You had to own a class A Rv, that’s what you have pictured. No class C’s, never mind that a FreightLiner class C has the same interior and may cost more, the HOA rules are rules and can’t be bent, this isn’t NASCAR

This would explain the toilets I see on the side of the road! There must be an offroad division also, I found a toilet on Point Pleasant Beach, NJ.

“which produce rich, creamery DC electricity” Not always, VW bug owners would complain about the car stumbling, I’d tell them they needed a voltage regulator and they would look at me like I was trying to sell them blinker fluid. Something like telling a British car owner his carb was low on oil!