Here in the States Ford sold these under the new name “Merkur”, at Lincoln dealers (along with rebadged 3-door Sierras as the XR4Ti). They tried to market them as an upscale sports sedan like a BMW or Audi. Not many sold, as I recall - the XR4Ti was more popular, I think, as it was sportier.

TIL Fangoria is still around.

Can confirm.

I think May, Edd, and Adam Savage would be the best trio for a show about tech geekery.

Rebadge them as Lancias, and now they’re exotic. Boom. Done.

I’m not sure he knows the difference.

I’m told that if you remove the old sticker before putting on the new one, it’ll be impossible to remove cleanly (I know that when I remove mine they’re always in bits). If you leave them on, eventually you can peel off several layers in one piece - I think that sticker thieves look for old cars with a thick layer of…

You have license plate brokers? Please explain. (Here in Illinois if you need brand new plates they’ll mail them to you, but if you’re buying a car at a dealership they often have them ready to go. When I bought my last car I wasn’t transferring my old ones and the new plates were on when I drove off. I believe they…

I worked in a record store back then (I was in college, the hours fit my class schedule. Don’t get too excited it was in a shopping mall, I wasn’t working in High Fidelity), and I read a lot of the British music magazines and consequently listened to a lot of then current British music. A lot of those albums are still…

I’m aware of it’s durability, I’m just vain enough to not want it getting all beat to hell. Even at less than $200, it’s enough of an investment to me that I’m going to be particular about it.

I think that the Japanese manufacturers would’ve been taken slightly more seriously early on had the sold things like the first generation Nissan Silvia and Isuzu 117 here. Those were truly nice looking cars, as opposed to some of the more ornate, odd looking cars they were producing. The second generation Toyota…

I can see the ad now: “Adult driven, local trips only. New trunk carpet.”

Funny - I recently got my first automatic (Seiko SKX007, I got it super cheap), and I hate the damned thing. I don’t wear it every day (my job involves a lot of physical labor, so I don’t wear it when I’m doing particularly heavy stuff. And no, I don’t carry my phone around because it’ll just get smashed most days).…

And, they’ve had that car through most of the ensuing seasons (bronze colored Oldsmobile. Sorry, I’m a refugee from Jalopnik, it’s what I do). I have to admit that it kind of surprised me that they kept it so long. Either that or the one they had for the Jennings turns up in the background and I think it’s theirs.

As long as the spoken word part at the beginning is included.

I realize that the plant fire was super dangerous and it’s fortunate that nobody was killed, but “disruptive F-150 supplier” makes me think they were shooting spitballs at Ford, or talking too loudly, some shit like that.

Duesenberg racing engines used a similar setup-valves were perpendicular to the bores. I can’t remember what the advantages were supposed to be, other than ease of adjustment (remove side covers and there’s tons of room) or maybe valve size. I’ll have to go look it up now!

Yeah, I think it ranked right up there with Mad Men in that respect (I always found Mad Men’s sets to be outstandingly well detailed).

I can’t tell if you’re serious or not, but it’s a cheap aftermarket shift knob that’s not screwed on correctly.

NP as long as it includes a selection of Tommy Bahama shirts (plus one Corvette themed Hawaiian shirt), a pair those square military sunglasses, a Corvette hat, and a bomber jacket from the mall.