That’s Amtrak without rails!

Don’t forget no power steering, manual transmission possibly without Synchromesh, and mechanical brakes.

The way states are working laws lately, they may all be off-road-only in a few years.

I’ve always been fascinated by everything Morgan makes. There’s something I’ve realized, though, about 3-wheelers: if you sit ON a trike, like you would on a motorcycle, it makes you seem chicken, like you’re afraid to tip over. If you sit IN it, like you would in a car, you seem like you think that 4th wheel is for…

My mother bought a stripped, new '79 Rabbit and was pissed that she couldn't get the dealer under $5k...43 years ago. It did have an automatic and an AM radio, and it was the first car in my family that I remember having carpet, but that was it. $7-9000 is not gonna happen.

A ‘74 Beetle was my second, after a Mazda RX-4. The Mazda’s lever went straight down into the gearbox, while the Beetle wouldn’t tell you what gear you were in till the left pedal was up and the right pedal was down. Next was a Microbus, where the distance from the bridge to the engine room rivaled the Queen Mary--and…

Tracy is gone, and everybody here knows "Miata is always the answer" so there's no need to say it.

Life insurance fraud is a felony.

J. Frank Parnell's Malibu in Repo Man.

The 1st generation Scion xB. It should have been this century’s Beetle. Anyone who calls any other car a TARDIS has never been in an xB. I used mine as a delivery van in NYC and once fit 80 musical instruments in it, and almost every day I parked it in spots that no one else could fit in. But it was great for…

But why did it have to be so ugly?

When I closed my business in 2018, the guys who bought my bench grinder and my lathe showed up, separately, in Elements.

I expect it made the Yugo speed record on the way to the water.

Except that you can see they don’t share a single body panel, and they weren’t assembled by unionized Italian labor—and remembering US-market Fiat quality in the ‘70s, saying Italian labor was an improvement is damning. Yugos, like Ladas, are best off in countries where owners know what they’re getting and know…

My dad had a couple of Mercedes when I was little, I think a ‘59 and a ‘64. It’s thinking back to those cars that makes me say that there’s nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes. He was a student pastor at the time, and he should have known that a Mercedes that he could afford wasn't going to hold up. Maybe he…

Go find a $5000 Duesenberg. Who still thinks anything should cost what it did 50-60 years ago?

“Most cars where the designers at least tried to do good work age reasonably well. The late seventies and early eighties when GM said ‘why design when we can just repaint and rebadge’ was a low point.”

How did somebody drive this 100,000 miles without sitting down? No way those seats can be original, but they are sexy. Total NP.

Orange burst (metallic) (ouch)

And it was bookended by two of the nicest postwar cars in the USA. Go figure.