the Comics Curmudgeon actually got me reading Heathcliff again.

Ritter doesn’t appear to have a neck in that poster.

Man, first he gets bumped from What’s Up With That, now he gets fired. Poor guy.

I imagine it’s almost exclusively sold in the States, judging from the retailers that typically carry the brand. Maybe some in Canada or Mexico, as those companies have some stores there as well. But I doubt much if any gets sold in, say, Europe.

I want to rescue that Trueno so bad.

I recall reading an article in Classic and Sports Car, where the writer had bought an already-built Pocher kit (an Alfa if memory serves, which it doesn’t always), for like a hundo, and he considered it a steal, since he had to take it apart and re-build it.

I always coveted the big Pocher kits back in the 80's and 90's when I was a kid. There was a model shop near here that would occasionally get one in stock. The prices then were laughably out of my price range as a twelve year old.

When I was a kid, back in the 80’s, I used to build model cars, mostly 1/24 or 25 scale (I did one or two Bburagos but they were expensive). I used to build classics and then add numbers and toolbars to them, but I also did a couple of dioramas (I built WW2 aircraft dioramas as well). Anyway, none survived except for…

Man, messed up a perfectly good ‘70 Eldo.

I have a lot of respect for Wayne Carini (he truly knows his stuff), but I can’t watch that show because it’s just sooooo boring. I mean, I’ll usually watch or read anything to do with cars but somehow I can’t get through an episode of that one (and to an extent Jay Leno’s show).

They need to call it one of two things:

Corvair

Aerovette

That is all.

I enjoyed the original run fine, but I hadn’t thought about or watched it since it went off the air. I watched the first episode of this season and it put me off so much that I didn’t try again until the Christmas episode - which I hated enough that I turned it off ten minutes in and never went back.

I will never get the appeal of the Greek system.

This isn’t a great film, but it’s not terrible. The old “reformed criminal agrees to one more heist” plot is an oldie, but a goodie. More than anything I liked the huge variety of cars that made appearances in it - I spent a lot of time saying things like “Hey, a Superbird!” and “Chopped ‘49 Mercury, nice!” to my…

FWIW, I’d heard the term “boosted” used in reference to theft before this moving came out. Usually when someone was offering to sell me some cheap stereo equipment or something.

Their sides are the best. I never get burgers there but will just roll up for some tots and a drink.

Can advantage: dumping a load of them into the recycling doesn’t make as much noise as a load of bottles, thus hiding my drinkery from the neighbors.

Can disadvantage: I like collecting bottle caps.

Your Toyota.

This is exactly why I will never, join a marque specific club or frequent a marque specific forum. These types of people ruin the fun of being a car enthusiast by being a brand enthusiast.

I like it as an idea and would’ve love to finish it properly, but not at that price. There’s too much bullshit - those shitty taillights, rando console and seats, messed up dash, license plate bolted through the tailgate (and inexplicably one screwed to the inner fender under the hood - one from Rio de Janiero as…