Finding a decent picture from the right angle is taking more time than it’s worth, but the Larz Anderson Museum in Brookline, MA, has Anderson’s 1912 CGV touring car, which has a toilet (and a bed).

That, at least, is presumably a reference to A Christmas Story and the BB gun the main character wants above all other things, and so not directly linked to modern gun violence (to be sure, it’s not difficult to trace an indirect link).

$1-1.4 million for “a very nice house”?  Hereabouts (near Boston, in what is admittedly among the pricier suburbs) there’ve been some pretty meh houses trading hands for those numbers...

Obvious problems with finding one in the first place and then finding parts once you’ve found it, but a Peugeot 504 would be perfect.  Unusual, tough enough to make a name for itself in some rugged country, able to haul a remarkable amount of weight...

Well obviously this is not a drill.  This is a car.  Just how thick do you think we are?

It helps that those old Saab hoods are really easy to remove—just take out two bolts, disconnect the windshield washer hose and lift it off. With mine, if I had a helper I might put a blanket on the car roof and keep the hood there while I was working, but otherwise I could usually lean it against the wall.

Surely shoes, since they’re where you put your feet when you’re out and about rather than where you stash them when you’re not using them, would be “foot cars?” Or, since they don’t move under their own power, “foot buggies?”

The two Wikipedia articles I read—one about the car, the other about the lizard—referred to molecular evolution and DNA evolution, which I took to be different terms for the same thing. Exactly what that thing is I do not have the information to explain.

I was going to comment on the irony of naming a fast car after a slow and primitive lizard.  According to Wikipedia, they were inspired by its having the fastest evolving DNA of any living animal (this from the entries on both the car and the lizard, put differently in each).

Considering their logo was a Viking ship, I’d go with “wanderer.”

I’m pretty sure someone or other compared the modern Bugattis to Duesenberg--opulence, ridiculous power, all that.  Accordingly, since the first reference to a Duesenberg I ever saw was this, I’m plumping for a double-cowl phaeton.

Usage may have legitimized “chaise lounge,” but it comes from a misreading of “chaise longue” (that is, “long chair”) and will continue to make some of us twitch.

I dunno. 20 years ago I saw a group of enthusiasts on a long-distance tour through Virginia in pre-WW1 cars—a couple of ALCOs, a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, a FIAT and some others (I don’t think there was anything so prosaic as a Model T). None of the drivers or passengers was anywhere near old enough to have seen any…

I was about to write an old-man-yells-at-cloud post saying that what this car has is louvers and a “louvre” is a French art museum, but I gather it’s the British spelling.  Nothing wrong with preferring British spellings for things.  Wait, though, I can still yell because you gave the engine displacement in liters! …

I’ve seen something similar in the US—a fold-down toddler seat with seatbelt in the stall in the men’s room at a Sheetz in southern PA (one large stall, which also contains the changing table, and three urinals—seems to work).

Two Outbacks in a row--I thought for a moment someone had done a 360.

Now see here. Lloyd made a car called the Alexander. Therefore all fantasy literary and cinematic references involving Lloyds must come from the Prydain Chronicles.  There can be no argument.

Beep beep. (Yes, yes, that was a Rambler...)

That’s a 1955 Beetle Cabriolet. The rear window on a standard 1955 VW Beetle doesn’t look any bigger.

Pee-ekh?