Hell, I’d take it with the driveline from the Abarth Spider. 

I think the camber change is what gets me. I can see it better in daylight but at night the road just kind of drops away. Plus, everyone flies through there and pays little attention to the lanes (I’ve almost been punted off there a couple of times). I feel that people are better disciplined through there in the…

I still get a little nervous going over that at night, for some reason. I don’t drive it very often so the traffic pattern still isn’t automatic for me. But I’m fine in daylight!

NP, simply because it’s the first Speed 3* that I’ve seen in a while that wasn’t covered in stickers, had the badges cut up into that stupid M thing, and been beaten up. I’m beginning to think that cars like this are getting to be like Willys Americars-most of them have been modified and something like this is as…

My folks used to take me to Contis when I was a kid. I loved the lasagna and the waiter used to pull quarters out of everyone’s ears. 

I’m with you on that. They opened one up in my town (in just before it became political to eat or not eat there), and I tried it. I finished my sandwich and fries and thought “Welp. That was food.”.

Haven’t been back. 

No, but I do remember Dog ‘n Suds. Superior. 

The original is still open in LA, I belive. Big Boy restaurants always had different names (the ones in the Midwest were “Marc’s Big Boy”). I haven’t eaten at one since the early 80's.

that said, anytime I carry a tray or something like I’m serving it, I feel like the kid in the Big Boy logo. I’m a pair of red…

Yeah, we would get the ads on cable networks only (not the big 4), so when they finally opened one in the Chicago area the waits were hours long.

These days I can get in and out of there pretty fast (I occasionally get a chocolate shake there). 

I dunno. 

You gotta know what you don’t know. That’s the secret to a happy life, man. 

Cristics? Those fried Crisco sticks they sell at the Wal-Mart? I love those things.

I kind of wonder if they made the shirts to troll people at the convention and make a “dumb conservatives” joke, but it’s just so badly done I can’t help but think they’re really that stupid.

Right? Shouldn’t one of those be a bear? 

I loved Soiled Merkin’s first two albums, but it all went downhill after the second percussionist left. 

I’ll tell you why people say that: it’s because if you back into a car or a light post or bump someone at a slow speed in a car with big metal bumpers, the bumper gets a scratch and maybe a little dent in it. Doing that in a modern car often results in a cracked bumper cover that half falls off and looks way more…

You know, I recall a lot of people saying the same thing about Romney, another man from a privileged, powerful family. The rationale was the same - “he started a business, and knows what it’s like for us”. Because starting a financial firm with seed money from your employer is exactly the same as trying to run a…

Cheap to modify too, if that’s your thing. 

Whatever the little black trim thing is on the orange one also mimics the cab corner rust that was standard on the originals! 

I got that when I used to read the Labelscar blog. There were a few old malls (I don’t think they did abandoned buildings, usually just ones that were mostly empty), and several looked just like the now-dead mall in my town. Very early 90's architecture that never got updated (lots of brass, teal, etc.).