So much potential... for disaster. Would you pay $900 for the privilege of emptying your own turds from the waste receptacle? Renault from the mid-1980's. An interior that even the Bang Bus people would spurn. Top speed in first gear? The list goes on and on....

What's this bullshit? I don't fuckin' care! It don't matter to Jesus. But you're not foolin' me, man. You might fool the fucks in the league office, but you don't fool Jesus.

This was my immediate thought - what a monumental waste of a brilliant idea. Almost all computing at this time depends on this idea, and they let it slip away.

Better get this in quick. I'd take this because it is a legendary muscle car, which really should be the impression we leave in our wake in Europe.

Horsehockey. If you're doing it by the seat of the pants, then you've learned how to do that. You weren't born with a steering wheel in your right hand and a gearshift in your left. You had to learn that muscle memory, which you wouldn't have done if you had started on an automatic. I learned on a standard shift,…

But you have to pay attention to your car in order to drive it with your manual. With an auto, put it in gear, push the pedal on the right, and go until you need to stop. That means you don't have to listen to the engine, pay attention to revs, you don't have to coordinate your feet with your shifting hand. You…

The automatic transmission is the single greatest contributing factor in the decreasing ability of general Americans to drive. Because we don't have to pay attention to the motor in order to shift, and don't have to use actual footwork in coordination with shifting to control the transmission, we have gotten lazy and…

In Cincinnati, there is a highway offramp that merges onto the somewhat busy Western Hills Viaduct. This westbound lane merges abruptly onto the bridge, and must yield to oncoming traffic. I once had to honk at someone flying up this merge toward me because he clearly wasn't going to yield to me, who had the right…

Remember Ray, if this gig doesn't work out, you can always fall back on your true destiny, that of being a booth professional at the big car shows.

Car full of college kids going from Pennsylvania to Florida on spring break flying down I-95. They get pulled over for speeding by a Georgia state trooper, who looks at the car with yankee plates full of frat boys. He says to the driver, "Son, nobody goes that fast through Georgia" as he writes up the ticket. …

Made me think of this immediately

My thoughts exactly.

I think the engine will scare away a lot of people. CP

Whew - for a minute there I thought you might be announcing Shane MacGowan's death.

+1

Little known fact: Swamp Ass and Grundle were two of the founding members of Molly Hatchet.

1992 Toyota Celica GTS, $2500 obo. It features a slushbox, but still.

I wonder if they're selling the telescope used by the scoreboard operator in 1951.

Man. I absolutely loved reading Ralph Wiley, and looked every week for the inevitable phrase from Thompson regarding THE FEAR. Page 2 has truly outlived its cache, but still it is a shame.

Drew, as much as The Postmortal scared the fuck out of me, this made a weeping fool out of me. I almost want to go watch "Eat, Pray, Love". Almost.