Wow! Great story.

All the Jalopnik staff have made trash suggestions. Not to say they aren’t great cars, but they aren’t good suggestions.

All of these are superb recommendations. I was going to add:

8. Making your own path.

I can’t emphasize 2, 5, 6, & 7 enough.

As a Manitoban who drives his Mustang GT in the winter with the traction nannies off, I salute you!

Regarding 6.

Curb!

Build date 4/20/2016

lets get this in bold, lest this critical lesson learned by skipped over by readers

Wife and I were hauling a queen sized bed set on the roof of our Oldsmobile right after we moved to PA. It was night, we had the hazards going, both our phones plugged in, and radio on. Electrical system couldn’t handle it and fried the pigtail off the positive battery terminal. We ended up stuck in the middle of the…

I was about to ask you this question:

How is it anything but my Alfa Romeo GTV6?

Davey my boy, sit you down and let me tell you a tale of a Jeep engine that I rebuilt that will undoubtedly renew your faith in your own Jeep’s mechanicals.

I remember I was on the way home from work once and some kid was driving (what was obviously) his mom’s car, like a jerk. I saw him in my mirrors, threading holes, weaving around, cutting people off etc. trying to catch up to me in heavy traffic. All whilst filming on his phone! We eventually stop next to each other…

YES!! Finally!

My Audi, unique snowflake that it is, won’t fire the ignition coils unless the ECM sees more than 11.8v from the battery. Under load from the starter, it doesn’t take much for a battery to fail this test.

Paul Walker thought he had found one