Flying the plane.

Not disagreeing with the fact-checking part, just the grammar. Em dashing the dependent clause cleans it up pretty well, with the recognition that it’s a fairly unwieldy sentence to begin with. (Also, “an El Al airliner” rather than “the El Al’s airliner” would be a less clunky construction, since the current version…

Would have to be a male child, though, so they could call him their wayward son.

A pair of em dashes would clean it up pretty nicely.

It’s actually pretty unsurprising, honestly. From ‘92 to mid-’98 a lot of Toyotas had a real problem with their clearcoats peeling like sunburn no matter what you did. Had a ‘92 Tercel that only saw CA sunlight driving to/from work (covered parking there, garaged at home) and by ‘95 the hood and trunk were in…

Happily daily’d an early-90s Tercel for eight years and upgraded to a Yaris for another eight until it cost more to fix than replace. Small cars are fine. If eighty percent of the traffic on the road weren’t SUVs and huge trucks, I’d likely still be daily’ing a small car, but as it stands I’ll be driving the CX-5…

I always wonder how the hell the owner of the car dug the hole to get it in there in the first place. Five feet of cover on a car means a nine foot deep hole by maybe twenty feet long and eight feet wide to get the car in, plus however much ramp you’d need to drive it down there, then fill it all back in... which is,…

In South TX, Albertson’s made a stab at making inroads into HEB’s dominance a while back—bought up a bunch of old K-Marts, refitted them, advertising blasts every four hours, seemed like. HEB buried ‘em and drove them out in six months.

Those are the eyes of a vehicle that’s been surprise-dragon’d.

Came here to post exactly this. Somewhat surprised how far down I had to scroll.

Screens of any kind.

Current vehicle at the time (Corolla) developed a non-warranty-covered repair that would have cost over half the high bluebook on it to fix, so bye, Felisha. Traded it in on a 2014 CX-5 Sport. Wanted a CUV/SUV with a manual and remembered a long-ago Jalopnik article where the writer had mentioned this particular model…

Mazda Protege 5.

Not gonna lie, I kind of love it a little, mostly because I’ve always wanted to drive a car that would make every passerby stop, look twice, and think, “What the hell was that?”

It looks... squashed and bloated at the same time. Not an attractive combination.

GM. Always had to have a Cadillac (dad’d been buying a new one every couple of years since 1955) and a Chevy in the driveway. The ‘81 diesel Biarritz was such a piece of shit that that ended the streak pretty definitively—after that, it was his string of ‘65 El Caminos (at one point he owned four of them) and for my…

$6,700 for a donor-car roller? Oh, hell no. At $1k it’d be worth a look—there’s enough left in decent shape to recoup that fairly easily. This is one of those, “What the hell is the seller thinking?” price points. ND all day long.

Looks like a 240SX and a Probe made a baby. The styling here is... oddly unremarkable.

NP for a collector looking for this specific vehicle to fill a hole in their collection; it’s a really well turned-out and clean specimen. ND for literally everyone else, myself included. At half the ask it’d be a tougher call, but it isn’t, so it isn’t.

Not as much as the tools in that trailer probably will.