I suspect the wheel design predates the brand it is most associated with, since it is after all just an aluminum version of the steel disc wheels that had been around since the 1920s.

I believe it is the front window glass. Which, now that I think about it, I probably should have guessed the door is primarily the front door, with an extra half of the back door welded on, as opposed to a back door with a bit of front. The front (including window and accompanying mechanisms) looks to be more or less…

Never before have I seen a review of a car where a story about not having sex with a girl was so awkwardly jammed into it.

“I know what I have”

Maybe there’s a bunch of these little ones out there, and a limo that stretches from one side of the state to the other.

It also appears that he could use the stock front window glass?

...and the remaining doors seem to be cut-down rear doors.

Not sure where to focus on in this story/stream of consciousness recall, but have a star.

I love the idea that he might not know that this isn’t it’s stock form..

Somewhere in Rhode Island, there is an equally baffling Protégé limo.

Just FYI, from context it appears he has the parts that need replacing, but has not installed them:

As someone who sold Mazdas in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, this thing puzzles the hell out of me! Yet, I still gotta give it a big thumbs up!

Let’s see some investigative journalism. Reach out to Jose at

+1

McGee’s is more of a physical miscue, while Smith’s was purely mental. Physical mistakes seem to be more forgivable—or at least more forgiven (Bill Buckner notwithstanding). I think Smith’s mistake take the title from Chris Webber’s timeout as the most significant mental error in basketball history and, given the…

Yeah, but those wheels are completely in character for the Beetle.

You try getting that high before an NBA finals game and see if you don’t fuck up a time or two.

You just have to stick your finger in 80 holes and then give the faces a quick wipe.

oh god, I remember those teddy bear wheels... I had a neighbor with those on her eclipse back in the day. God they were terrible then and are even worse now!!

Kinda like the Volvo Uglies I had on my C30...