I read through the comments in order to prevent myself from making this point if someone else had already done so. You have, with more detail than I would have used, so now I need go no further. (I could have said “Came for this, leaving satisfied,” but that would be far too efficient.)

“Step It Out Mary” originally by the High Kings? The group responsible (as far as I can tell) for adding an unnecessary chorus to “The Parting Glass”? Bite your tongue, sir. They’ve only been around since 2008. Boiled in Lead recorded it on their 1989 album _From the Ladle to the Grave_, and it’s not originally theirs…

And could I possibly get de-greyed?  Or does the privilege require further effort on my part?

I’d consider it, but the driver’s seat won’t adjust far down/back enough for me to see out properly and shelling out new-car money only to throw out the stock driver’s seat and then spend however much a suitable aftermarket replacement would cost seems a bit much.

Not only did Tom talk about renting, the questioner stated that the cars he and his wife wanted to test weren’t available for rental locally. And “take the bus?” How do you know that’s an option, city boy?

We never talked about Volkswagens or Dutch geography at my old school.

I like the idea, though having sevens in the number (mine has four of them) can make it a little wonky.

South Africa first shows up in the 11th paragraph. The 13th paragraph states that she’d fallen in love with the country and moved there after her first husband’s death—and (in the next paragraph) met and married her second husband, a wealthy landowner with whom she entered the jet set and never raced again.

Since the husband and plantation in question were in South Africa, American history doesn’t seem particularly relevant.

The Silver Ghost windshield gives a bit more protection than you’ve seen—there’s a top pane that’s folded down onto the angled pane.

My uncle made some money on the side in his late teens/early twenties buying old luxury cars, fettling them a bit and reselling them. At one point, while he was a student at Harvard, he had a Duesenberg SJ with a dual-cowl phaeton body. He drove it home to northernmost Virginia (a bit to the west and north of Northern…

If the NJ DMV works exactly like the MA RMV, the dealership processes your paperwork and issues you permanent plates when you get the car.

He does it that way because he (Martin Sheen, not Jed Bartlet) has limited motion in his shoulder from an injury when he was born. Now, my son used the flip method when he was smaller and had no trouble switching when he was five or so (he’s seven now). My brother did the same thing (he’s forty-six now). As far as I…

Ah, never mind, just watched the actual video--I was going on the picture at the top of the article.

It looks like the actual speedometer is reading 35 and that 198 is the top speed reached, not the current speed.  Those warning lights are still, well, alarming.  Maybe the needles of the tach and speedo rest at 1500 and 35 respectively when the engine’s off but the key’s on?  Seems doubtful.

“Exceeds mechanical limits” tends to mean that the odometer has rolled over. Maybe the DMV person wasn’t used to dealing with six-digit odometers and made an assumption based on the reported six-figure mileage?

And then there’s the Vincent lifeboat engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_lifeboat_engine

I like a nice IPA, but it’s by no means what I always want. I also like a nice brown ale—which is rare enough that when IPAs (many of them over-hopped and therefore not fitting my definition of nice) dominate, it tends not to find room among the few remaining taps.

Well, not so much tower of boxer engines as a tower of boxer-engined cars—after all, the engines are about as far from each other as they can be under the circumstances.

A man who worked on my grandmother’s farm forgot to turn the corn picker off before he tried to pull out the piece of plastic that was jamming it. He drove himself to the hospital. He was the first person I ever met who had lost a limb.