I think it was a deliberate mislead - they kept referring to her going back home as “going to Providence”, and I bet we all assumed they meant Rhode Island (I know I did). Providence, RI had (and still has) a fairly large industry in jewelry and silverware manufacturing - with the stereotype of Jewish jewelers it made…

I had (and probably still have somewhere) their book “How To Play With Your Food” (or something). I know I’ve done at least two of the tricks described in there, and I wish I still had the sheet of stickers that came with it.

I remember that one trick was a simple “Is this your card” deal, where you had to order a…

I had that one - it was a gift. Kept it.

To add to my old school gaming cred, we had the ET game for the 2600 - purchased in a store and everything. Finished it. 

I forget the name of ours, but had the same experience. The place had dark wood paneling and a separate room for kids stuff (and I’m sure adult films too). In my ,ind the place was huge but I was like eight so it probably just seemed that way. But every Saturday we’d go down there and rent a movie. 

Because I’m an old now, my folks got us an Atari 2600 back in the day. We had a bunch of games (including the E.T. game. Which we bought new), and then my dad (who was in his mid thirties then) got hooked on the Snoopy and the Red Baron game. After like the third time he stayed up all night playing that (and he…

And they’re even less likely to buy print magazines about old Chevys. The target markets for several of those are basically old people. 

Is it? I’ve never even seen one much less driven one. I just figured that it’d be slipping the clutch a bit as you drove along - but I may be thinking of something else entirely. 

It was a wagon, and nobody was doing SHO swaps then. Car could’ve been used, I really don’t know. But definitely manual Taurus wagon.

So there was a guy at my high school who’s parents were killed in an accident, and he received a very large payout (insurance, inheritance, I’m not sure. He was a year or two ahead of me and had maybe just turned 18 so I didn’t really know him). This was in like 1991 or so. In any event he started driving to school in…

I vaguely remember reading about shady dealerships taking used Sportomatic equipped 911/912s, fitting them with a clutch pedal and a heavy spring, and selling them as standard four speed cars. Of course the obvious thing would happen, people would drive around with one hand draped sportily on the gearknob, wrecking…

I’m not saying her whole family is like “See ya!”, but I can totally see, say, her folks and her bratty sister (not the one at the shop - does she have a brother too? I forget how many siblings she actually has) deciding that since she’s made this decision that she’s on her own. Her family seemed kind of shitty, as I…

Re: Tami. I genuinely think that her family has decided to abandon her because she wants to be with Lip. It seems that’s something they’d do after she decided that she’d rather see Lip than BOOOOONE! 

You’re mistaking “flawed” for “reliable”. Until very recently we had a 2015 Honda Civic (purchased new) that had plenty of flaws. Automatic transmission that seemed to take ages to take up drive when you went from park to any gear, and which seemed to be made of rubber bands. Throttle response that was best described…

Lifehacker’s over there. 

Ditto, the one up the street from me is a gas station themed restaurant, and the one at the other end of the street was a garden center for years before a bank bought it and turned the service bays into their drive up ATMs. Fortunately they preserved most of the architecture, as the building is a fairly original Pure…

No, they wouldn’t. In 1970 a tri five was, for the most part, an old used car to the majority of people, as were most fifties cars. The only people who wanted them were 1) cheapskates who wanted a beater, or 2) hot rodders who wanted cheap drag cars. Nobody in the 70’s who saw one driving down the road would stop and…

I used to use Golf-Glo to clean my clubs till it started to take the varnish off my Ben Hogan woods. 

A lot of people think it’s because F1 is “foreign”, (every so often an American driver considers a move to it, and everyone says that “this’ll be what breaks F1 in the States!” It never does), but the plain fact is that for decades F1 was very difficult to watch here. None of the races in Europe or Asia happened…

I don’t even think “racing shoes” was much of a thing till like the late 70’s. You see pics of a lot of guys just wearing tennis shoes, loafers, or whatever was narrow enough to fit in the footwell of the car and offered sufficient feel and movement.

Can’t believe that nobody’s suggested Mon Ami Mate yet.