My car may as well have an interlock. It will. not. shut. up. if you don’t have one on and if you dare to take it off as your going to stop (as in the case of dropping off a passenger) it will scream bloody murder at you and it will continue to aggressively beep even when stopped.

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I once considered a dirt cheap pair of Fiat 124s selling under just such duress.

Lakeside Speedway in Denver. Opened in the 30's and closed in 1988. Predates me, so I’ve never actually seen it, but with a bit of quick research I’ve found that it was considered one of the trickier tracks in the country for midget cars. 1/5th mile built on a hill with banking on the north end and flat on the south.…

That’s what happens when you’re adopted by Italians, basically all your fucks that you were carefully saving to give go flying out the window. Fuel economy? Practicality? No, no, no, we’re gonna have burnouts (backwards! in current Abarth commercials) and sexy ladies!

“If you ever wanted to know what it would be like to take a bunch of pills and go camping with Siouxsie Sioux, this should give you a pretty good idea.”

Missing the Lambo translations here...

Same. But then, the closest I ever come to being “in the great outdoors” is a city park, sooo...

That just never gets old

Actually, it’s really, really fun to scare your parents in a car. My mom is kinda a not great person and we don’t exactly have the ideal mother-daughter relationship. So last time I saw her, I took her up into the mountains ostensibly to show her where my upcoming hill climb was going to be. Naturally I did this in a…

I’m thinking the fact you were in Florida had something to do with it

Well I mean, yeah, fooled around a bit, but I think the farthest a handful of kids had gone by that point was maybe 3rd base. For me it was circa early 2000s in an upper middle class very multiethnic suburb.

Maybe my middle school wasn’t that slutty, but I call slight bs on 8th graders having sex in the back. That didn’t happen till high school where I was.

Will there be a sauna? Cause I would be very down for a karaoke bar where I can stay blissfully warm.

This. Pretty sure a lot of Jeeps where I am exist mostly as very large stereo systems more than true vehicles.

Here’s the thing with Oregon, everybody thinks it’s 100% pretty and hipstery, but no. Basically everything from about Bend east is essentially an extension of the shittier parts of Idaho. And I say that as someone who lives in Idaho. And somehow even Idaho isn’t stupid enough to try this one. At least we can do 80 and…

Mine worked for Lockheed building planes, same with my grandpa who had a medical deferral

The Queen was a mechanic in WWII, she’s probably still more qualified to drive that thing than your average suburban mother.

Just with less AIDS.

I had the same experience, spent 3 days moaning over text to my best friend about it. Got stuck doing a “mission from god” style run on it when the groom’s boots were forgotten for a wedding and it thoroughly underperformed.