Seriously. You gotta get classic car insurance for stuff like this. My '78 Eldo, pictured in my icon, was totaled by a drunk, underinsured motorist in a car that wasn't theirs and I was 300 miles away from home. They were understanding that the car wasn't garaged because I had taken it on a road trip and that…

@Animan: Better keep an eye on my widow's peak in the mirror there....

To borrow a phrase from my good friend Rahm Emanuel:

@BigHappy: Look, it's "THE POLICE".

When it comes to talking about GM, whether you like it or not, politics ARE relevant. Our government still owns 61% of GM. These clowns in our legislative body, whether they voted for the bailout or not, are essentially GM's Board of Directors. When it comes down to it, they can pull the purse strings and fire CEOs…

Now can they get their act together and get Alfa stateside?

@gman1023: Just in the ACRS alone, he could probably make a fortune. I know of a guy that has possibly the only Mandarin Orange ACRS setup ever made. He doesn't know what to ask for it given it's the only one anyone has ever seen.

@SmaartAasSaabr: I'd rather see them at a demo derby than a crusher.

@Gimmi Mørgäikkönën: +3000000001

We need a new t-shirt....

I can't wait for this guy to end up like Ryan Leaf.

Big props to this guy. My girlfriend can't even parallel park a Subaru without 30 turns and opening the door twice and he basically drifted a 747 to a stop. We should get him in the E30 with Bill Caswell.

@RamblinReck89: +1000000

@'76Mini: When I bought my last car I was commuting the 405/101 in LA on a daily basis. Living there, you're rarely ever out of traffic and given the demands of my job at the time (endless phone calls about trivial crap at all hours of the day) I also thought I was safer in an automatic. The last thing I, or the…

While I know how to drive a manual, I'm too lazy and don't want to deal with one in bumper to bumper traffic on my commute to work. I'd be willing to bet that's why most people don't drive self-shifters anymore. It's not because we can't, it's because we don't want to.

@OfficerRabbit: Couldn't have said it better myself, even though I've tried to at least 3 or 4 times while commenting on this article.

@I love me some cleavage: Generally, I could care less about unions. Given I have a college degree and can hold a job on my own merits, not because of a collective bargaining agreement or some bullshit like that, I've never had much use for them, personally.

@TheTonyShow: They just stopped by my place so they should be near you any minute.

During college, I worked for a BMW dealer in Northern California. You'd be surprised at how often techs wreck cars. They had a boatload of insurance that covered it all. The manufacture requires all dealers be insured to the hilt not only for flooring purposes on new cars but for crap like this. BMW knows their…

You know, the UAW didn't give two shits about all the 75 year old bond holders of GM (many of whom were former GM employees) who had their retirement incomes decimated because the UAW sob storied their way to the top of the Bankruptcy payout scale and elbowed their way further into the Board Room. What about those…