ISTR that the car got reasonably favorable reviews, but compared to it’s competition, it was a little boring. I just looked up C&D’s review (group test with Ferrari and Aston), and they said it felt a little “vintage”, which to me might be a bit disappointing despite the retro looks. After all, if I wanted a vintage…

Someone made this comment elsewhere, but I kind of agree with it - what the hell’s with the cardboard box with the flaps sliced off? These guys couldn’t get a cheap jack-o-lantern bucket for this photo op? It goes to show just how much they care about just about anything - kids, image, anything.

You know what’s nice about those? That vertical rear window. You and your date can sit on the trunk at the drive in movies and get a better view and/or park out by the lake and fool around in the open air.

Dystopian scenarios where society breaks down tend to really freak me the hell out. I couldn’t even attempt to see Mad Max - the original was bad enough. Shit, I couldn’t even get through that episode of Rick and Morty where they’re in some Mad Maxian dimension.

The pods are expensive - only your higher class office type places with a lot of middle management layers and people hanging on for retirement would have them because let’s face it, nobody’s going to buy them for the whole office so the supply budget has to be pretty high. HVAC contractors, warehouses, stores, machine…

It depends on how you look at it. When I was undergoing the driving parts of driver’s ed., my folks would take me out in one of their Honda Accords. We had an ‘89 like this one:

It’s a what the tuk-tuk.

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.