The soft top on my old NA eventually developed a few leaks around the window seals, due to the cracking of the vinyl in those areas (where the top folds). The seals would literally fill with water when it rained and then squirt out the first time I braked. I kept paper towels or a rag in the car to dry them out before…

Didn’t they once market GMC as “professional” trucks? I can see people who have decided they need a “real” truck going to GMC rather than the damn near identical Chevrolet because of that.

I knew a guy years ago who had a predilection for women who drove Saturns. It made sense, because they were inexpensive cars even new, so lots of young single women drove around in them.

My understanding is that general audiences in the States don’t know much if anything about the LeMans 24 Hours race. To most of the non-enthusiasts I know a “LeMans” is a compact car made by Pontiac, but everyone knows the names “Ford” and “Ferrari”. In much the same way that Rush could’ve been called Fuji ‘76, but…

(Raises hand).

Then again I always liked older cars and automotive/motorsports history. 

I think I saw Malaise Babies open for Smashing Pumpkins at the Metro one time back in like ‘91.

I found it, turns out he was in the sketch on Will Ferrell’s last appearance as an SNL regular. 

I’m pretty sure Alex Trebek likes the SNL sketches - he had a cameo in one once. 

I forget the name of the video store, but it was definitely not a chain. But I do remember where it was and I can still mostly picture the interior. All the videos were along the wall behind the counter in black cases, the regular display ones were on the racks you could browse. Very seventies dark paneling, except in…

The Robin Williams Popeye was the first video my folks rented for us when we got our first VCR in like 1982. I still believe that’s the only time I saw it.

Which reminds me that the local video store had a whole separate room for kids movies, and they had all the Disney films available to that time, including all the…

Yeah, a weekly show would’ve been a great idea - Leno’s prime time show was less talk show and more variety show anyway. Jay Leno’s persona would be perfect for that.

The Willys Jeep Station Wagon - which is the car I mentioned and is seen in the video- was not. All steel body, sometimes factory painted to resemble a wood body.  

Things started to get bad for Maserati in the 70's, during the oil crisis and the recession*. Sales tanked and Citroen liquidated the company, eventually selling it to Alejandro DeTomaso. The company limped along till Fiat took control and started investing in it again. 

Here in the Middle West, they don’t even exist. They just dissolved after a few winters. 

A Jeep station wagon painted as a woodie drives by at the very beginning, and appears again on the bridge (I imagine it was part of the film crew?). Another woodie, a Ford wagon, is in the parking lot. 

At least they’re not naming them after streets. “Here’s little Hennepin, and over by the sofa is Pilot Knob!” 

Tomato, tomahto. 

Nothing quite as satisfying as a peevish wank. 

The head tilt is because they’re looking through the wrong part of their trifocals. 

We are calling it FPCOC, pronounced “Efpeecock”