I hate my alma mater for thinking it needs to be, or is even capable of being, a good football team.

Really disagree with this, particularly the sports car part of the analogy. They’re actually pretty antithetical to each other. Torch or somebody made this point in an article about being a ‘tough guy’ on the road a little while ago. There are fewer small, interesting cars on the road because these behemoths make it…

Not everyone is down to cave.

Yeah, this is very strange to me. Cheerios is one of the most strongly flavored “plain” (i.e. no additional non-grain flavor added) cereals. Up there with Grape Nuts.

Yeah there are much better choices than my original.

I’ll take it one step further: Priest Who Allegedly Sexually Abused a Minor Put on Leave. The closer you get to the active rather than passive, with a clear indication of subject and object, the better, imho.

See also “officer-involved shooting.”
The cop didn’t pull the trigger, see, the cop was just at the scene, see. The cop’s gun shot and killed that kid, not the cop!

“What word means horny for humility?”

Just ran into my garage to fix this and to my bewilderment realized that I don't own a porsche.

So lemme get this straight, they’re so detail oriented that they align Center caps a specific way (which I’m actually ok with because veee musht hav ORDAH!) but not so much that they won’t call a car with neither forced induction NOR and internal combustion engine, a “Turbo?” GTFOH

“‘And the fact that I would go on and sort of declare myself — like, as a heterosexual white male — part of any marginalized community was terrifying to me, or just embarrassing.’”

old non-collectible cars are interesting to me. but as i’m learning with my own 2002 ranger project(project Fe2O3), the thing that kills old non-collectibles isn’t driveline parts, or patching sheet metal. the parts that they die from are the really stupid stuff. plastic marker lights. interior trim and clips. it…

Right in the feels. My first car was an Eagle, looked just like that but black with tan interior and 5 speed. My parents parked it after it had a vacuum line issue so I fixed it when I came of age and was rewarded with ownership. Perfect car for a high schooler growing up in Alaska.  Hold all my buds and outdoor…

I love this car. It’s only partly because my first car memory is an Eagle SX/4 my father owned when I was 5. He traded it for a truck because it was too weird, and has never had anything but a truck since.

The 4WD Subarus of the 70s and 80s were really Outbacks before marketing slapped a goofy label on them, pretty much the same idea as these AMCs, but smaller.

Had a roommate who was a fanatic for these things and he found an abandoned showcar/prototype of a pickup version (like a Subaru BRAT) in a small outdoor collectio…

What’s the used market like for these things anyway? Do they even exist in appreciable numbers anymore? Are they serviceable?

Dear Salty,

So much “grown up stuff” is, and has been, missing.

The truck that Land Rover ought to be making instead of the new Freelander so-called Defender Pretender.