Yeah, the Halcyon’s tank looks like a Brough Superior copy but the frame looks like an oversized Sears minibike.

Ehh, “new” is overrated. If you want weird, I knew a guy who who did perfect restorations of a Douglas 350, a Scott Flying Squirrel, and the Bultaco Metralla that I bought from him. He also bought and rode the hell out of Vincents when people could still afford them. Dave’s bikes looked retro because they were…

Everything I've owned except a '65 Cadillac, a '96 Isuzu Oasis (badge engineered Odyssey) and my '05 and '06 xBs has been a nightmare for road trips, but then from 1965 to 1984, at least one of my parents owned a Volkswagen and the other owned either a Corolla or a clunker, so I was used to it.

I hate to be that guy, but I read a couple of things on some obscure website—Jalop something—that make it sound like states are starting to revoke registrations on 25-year rule vehicles, and that more states are jumping on the bandwagon all the time. Still, a "real" Mini or a Citroën DS would be in my top 5 for sure.…

Shooting brakes started out with four doors, like the Rolls Royces that maharajahs used for tiger hunting, hence the "shooting." 

Up until 1979, I lived a few miles south of the Canadian border and got to see a lot of stuff that you couldn’t title in the US. I loved the Minis, was intrigued by the Ladas, but the ‘70s versions of this were really cool too. I’ve never really been an offroader, on purpose anyway, but I feel like the Samurai would…

States are starting to revoke JDM registrations already, it's a matter of time before they won't be street legal in the US.

Nobody will ever make a ‘59 DeSoto again, but good news: there area few left and their prices are competitive with new stuff. For now. Get decent seat belts, a dual master cylinder and front discs, and you can have a hardtop with thin A pillars, no B pillars, huge windows, wing windows, and fins! And it will be cooler…

If you think there are a lot of Corollas in Canada...back in 2014 and 2015 I made a couple of work trips to Kabul, Afghanistan. No exaggeration: at that time, 90% of the cars in Kabul (and from what I understand, the country) were Corollas. I guess I can see hating on their drivers, but it's the most popular car in…

Diesel automatic Type 2. What's the point of putting wheels on it?

The Wasserboxer is almost adequate. My Microbus had a 1600 air cooled and wouldn't get up some hills on interstates in 4th.

I’m 55, and there was about a week in late 1990 when I seriously considered buying a new car. If you like IH Scouts, get one. Get it now before even the totally shot ones are 50 grand. If you're over 30 you'll probably be able to get gasoline until you're too old to drive anymore; otherwise, build a still & hoard…

Unless you’re talking about a disembodied hand in a box.

It was low speed, that's what made it ridiculous.

25 years ago, when my main bike was a 750 Tiger, I worked with a quasi-klansman who had a Harley with open pipes. We’d get out of work about 2 AM and, though work was pretty rural, there were houses around. He’d open that thing up so you could hear it for at least two miles. I would think, “most people probably can’t…

I’d say that’s a different kind of buyer. Price notwithstanding, a sports car is a sports car and a GT is a GT. You wouldn’t buy a Rolls-Royce if you want an AMG, either. So if you really want the experience that an S2000 gives you, or a Boxster, for that matter, but you can afford something more expensive that…

Don’t forget Lexus was built on Toyota engineering and build quality. That was way out of Chrysler's reach at the time.

For the tiny profit they probably made on the whole Viper project, compared to the slightly less tiny profit an optional automatic could have gotten them (I've always understood it to be a lot more uncompromising than a Corvette, and not just because of the extra pedal), I think the veneer of integrity they earned was…

I think you'd have to be a Mopar fanatic to want an automatic Viper and settle for this. Most people would just get a Corvette.

This wouldn’t have competed with any of those cars; they were aiming more at XLRs, SLs (which would have been in-house competition), F-types, and maybe Maseratis. The last cars they really could put in the field you're talking about would have been the Shelby GLH's in the '80s.