Buick Skylark. Not only butt-ass ugly, but too embarrassing to drive. Hertz tried to give me one as a rental one time and AW HELL NO ensued.

The 2.5 CVT isn’t bad off the line. From 50-80 isn’t great, but from a dead stop it pulls just fine.

I’ve never understood the enthusiasm for the IDX. It’s ugly.

My brother had a ‘71 510, a good looking, functional car. So I get the nostalgia, but that ain’t evoking the 510’s memory for me.

We used to have one in Georgia, but it was abolished before Doug was born. Because corruption.

Not getting bumped is easy: First, check in online. Most airlines allow you to check in online upt to 24 hours before departure, either over the web or via a smartphone app. Second, be in your seat no less than 10 minutes before scheduled departure. No stripping necessary.

Cool. I’m going to anchoring in the ICW at the end of the runway at Hurlburt in two weeks. There are always V22’s flying over. I’ll need to look for this phenomenon.

Just about every Craigslist ad I’ve responded to I get “I’m selling this car for a friend because he/she doesn’t have the time to sell it them self.”

When I was about 16 or 17, I had a cop threaten to give me a reckless driving citation for chirping the tires on the 1-2 upshift*. He yelled at me for a while and let me off with ‘verbal’ warning. I think the main reason I didn’t get anything was I was on private property at the time.

*this was in a ‘77 Celica that…

It took an extremely fastidious retronaut mother-fucker to put this combo together. The only possible buyer is another extremely fastidious retronaut mother-fucker. There’s got to be more than one of these in the universe, right?

World speed record Spirit of Australia 317 mph.

Have you never watched Bait Car? Any wannabe thief who boosts a car after seeing the driver jump out into another vehicle while leaving door open and the keys in the ignition is an idiot. When the po-po finally catches you they aren’t going to buy your story you were moving the car to a safer place.

I rented a 2015 V6 Mustang last week. Not bad. Not bad at all. Actually pretty good. I seriously wondered why I'd pay extra for the EcoBoost.

He made Nanci Griffith cry with that one. Good find.

A good 20% of the songs in my campfire guitar repertoire are TVZ songs. So many good ones.

I too looked a lot better 30 years ago. What's your point? ;)

Steve Earle's version is pretty good too. From his 2009 album of Townes Van Zandt songs "Townes". (One of the best records of the last decade, BTW.)

Linda Ronstadt....

Don't be hatin' Mr. Regular!

Because it would be impossible to see out of that car. Driving it would be like looking out of the slit on a welder's mask. But it sure looks cool, though.

I love driving H1s. The driver is right on the centerline of the road while the passenger has a great view of all the mailboxes and pedestrians on the sidewalks as you flatten them. Did I mention it is wide?

Yeah I know drifting takes tons of skill and talent. And not to mention preparation. I still think it's dumb.