Naw, it’s far better looking than most (all?) current supercars. Not nearly angular and vented to be new.

I think his argument is that French teachers, along with librarians, couldn’t get “real” jobs, and stuck with teaching and librarianing.

I’d check that movie out from the library.

I’m not going to bother with trying to explain routing priorities or potential switching issues to even try and get a replacement locomotive onto one end or another of a stranded train, suffice to say that you can’t just change lanes in a train and would possibly need to go well out of the way to do so (I don’t have a…

A few things:

I haven’t paid that close attention to the backgrounds in a lot of it - I’ve just noticed that most of the characters’ vehicles (particularly the various spy cars) are pretty average. The pilot and stewardess disguises are probably the most unusual - they have a Volvo. It’s a good choice for people who are supposed to…

Of course not. It’s merely a reason. I find it a little hard to believe I loved this show back in the 80's.

It’s about the only place, these days. They mostly exist as collectibles in areas with any real precipitation.

I live in a relatively safe area - I can leave my car unlocked at night and it’ll still be there and nothing will be missing. Same thing at work - I mean I don’t leave my smartphone sitting out with the car open but people generally don’t rifle through parked cars around here either. You’re more likely to find garbage…

I actually think it’s earlier than that - it looks like it has two wipers, pointed taillight lenses, lack of passenger mirror and seat headrests, and the bumper overriders seem to be all chrome, lacking the little black rubber pads on them. (source: I own a ‘71, also I need a hobby).

This is one of the things I like about The Americans. Outside of the Camaro that Philip buys, the majority of the cars in the show are everyday stuff from the 70's and 80's. You rarely see someone driving something “nice” or an exotic background car.

It still pains me to watch the Dukes of Hazzard, if only because they trashed so many Chargers. I know that they were usually junkers held together with baling wire and happy thoughts, but man sometimes it hurts.

I think the LAPD started using AMC Matadors in the early 70's.

The MGB looks just like mine (no, it’s not mine). From the photo it looks like a late 60's model (pointed taillight lenses, the bumpers don’t have little rubber pads on the overriders and it has two windshield wipers), with incorrect 70's Rostyle wheels. Also, I need a new hobby.

You can. But......

Midway through the season Carr...er...Vanessa’s widowed da....er....uncle Arth...um...Aaron will appear, played by special guest star Jerry Stiller.

As for the first one, I knew a guy way back when who always left his keys in his car - often times in the ignition. I forget why - something about how the ignition barrel was worn out or something but I’m pretty sure he was just too lazy to pocket them, or too stupid to not lose them all the time. Meanwhile I back my…

“Normal conditions” for most of the US include things like rain and snow, though. Just because something works somewhere like Arizona doesn’t mean it’ll work somewhere like upstate New York. Sorry, that’s just how it is, and why Japanese cars had a reputation for being lower quality for a long time. You can either…

I’m guessing you didn’t. Everyone I know who says that 70's Japanese cars were solidly built lived in the desert (and you can’t really make a case if you only go by one specific region of the country, if we’re talking about the States). Anyone who lived anywhere else - and I’m not talking places like Michigan but…

To be fair, by 1997 most Japanese cars were less rot prone than earlier ones. I graduated from high school in the early 90's, and knew a lot of people who had secondhand Japanese cars from the late 70's and early 80's, and while they all started and ran well enough, they were all falling apart in every other way. All…