I read that first line as, "a shirtless, flexing Mario Batali," and had to do a double-take. Now, the image is seared in my mind.

Luigi's job was done as soon as he flipped the kart, he'd caused the chaos he'd set out for that day. Man, that guy has turned into such an asshole.

I remember sitting in between the two front seats on trips in our '86 Subaru GL. Spent a great deal of my childhood riding through the mountains in the back of my grandparent's old Ford pickup, then their '89 Mazda B2600 4x4 (which eventually got a camper top!).

"Ya never leave a man behind!"

Yes. Many indeeds!

Like this?

The '36 Cord 810 had a preselect, too. The shifter was like a normal one, only much smaller and on the stalk. You'd select your gear, then press the clutch and it did it for you.

That makes miso hungry.

Yeah, I guess on the one hand if it was a conspiracy at least that meant there was communication and they knew what they were doing, as horrible is that still is. Instead, it's sort of like they were just derpin' around, uncaring and unwilling to tell the people at the top. In a way, that's a little scarier to me,…

Not to mention Forza 4. "Oh, you want to have choices from Porsche and not just Ruf? Okay, that'll be another $20."

I can feel your pain. I grew up helping work on cars, bikes, mowers and the like, but I didn't run into a scenario where I needed to do it all by myself until I was in my teens. That first time you do everything yourself, you're paranoid as all hell, "Did I set the jack stands right? I don't wanna be crushed to death,…

Thanks for the info, I'll look into it!

Looks pretty interesting. I'd like to see that motor swapped into something like a 2002 that lost its heart somewhere along the way. I know the VFR is sort of in between touring and sporty, so maybe is fits in a nice place as a swap candidate? Ripping down a curvy mountain road with that thing could be a lot of fun.

I do it, too, every morning. I've caught quite a few brown recluse spiders in the house here, as they're all over this area. They aren't aggressive, but you get bit because they were someplace you didn't think to look. We caught two in our bed once, which isn't fun when you have a 4-month old. There were lots of…

He's got his mouth open so he can savor the flavor of death.

All that training...wasted.

"Yeah, he fell down the elevator shaft, but that didn't kill him. It was all those bullets he fell on."

It was, his name was Sam. Died about ten years ago.

I found the first rendering, looks like they have a video somewhere...

Awwww...pretty wittle puppy doggy. Doggies wouldn't huwt a fwy would dey? All doggies so sweet and...