So, there’s a bit of dialogue in High Fidelity wherein Rob is talking about how to make the best mixtape, something about you have to build it up, then reel it in a bit (I’m too lazy to go look it up atm). Anyway, when the film came out I took my then current girlfriend to see it. Bear in mind that at the time I was…

It may very well be you - I quit smoking like ten years ago but I remember being less sensitive to it for a while. Then again, I worked with a woman who smoked but you could barely tell because she rarely actually smoked at work, or in her house, or in her car, so it didn’t cling to her. So while your friends may very…

The book “The Yugo: The Rise And Fall Of The Worst Car In History” by Jason Vuic is a very interesting read, as in addition to the issues with the Yugo itself it goes into the history of Malcolm Bricklin’s various automotive projects. Those stories shed a lot of light on why the whole project was pretty much doomed…

Probably won’t be seen because I’m grey, but here goes.

I used to work at a large chain bookstore that’s no longer in business. In the restrooms we had some big framed posters hung up, you know, to liven up the joint a bit. The men’s room featured a very big poster of Elvis Presley - it was an old black and white…

Good grief. I’m sorry right back. 

Well, your hands are dirty! Your junk is not!

There’s one genius thing here that needs to be incorporated in every car - the fact that honking the horn lessens your range. Can you picture it?
Honk the horn at someone because they didn’t floor it off the line at a light and they don’t have the reaction time of a Top Fuel driver? Minus ten miles
Honk the horn at…

Didn’t Tim Allen go on about his show’s poor ratings or something being because he’s an outspoken conservative? 

Yeah, I’m wondering who’s gonna get clipped, so to speak. Or, if the urinals work just fine but some unlucky woman gets stuck to the hoverloos in the ladies’ room.

I think the appeal of the Camaro steel wheels is due in part to their resemblance to the second generations wheels.

Same here, in Chicago. Just parked on a side street. Not even near a grocery store or anything and there wasn’t a street festival going on. Just a metered space, with like half an hour left.

I agree, even though I also want to build and restomod a vintage bike. I shopped for a steel road bike frame so I could build the vintage racer of my dreams but by the time I priced it out I could buy a Pure and be done with it (a friend of mine has one and it seems pretty nice for the money), or modify that. It’s…

There are still a very few old neon McDonald’s signs out there, but they are very rare. McD’s is pretty firm about updating and upgrading their stores - locally there is one that up until four years ago or so was still the sixties design with the brick building and mansard roof (which McDonald’s had made a…

I’m a bit of a sign geek, and I always wanted to get some good photos of it all lit up at night, but never had the chance.

Whelp, I have a new crush. 

Bike shops won’t even work on them - they are literally disposable. 

Yes and no. My car is outside all day at work, so if I want to protect it from the sun I then have to pack a car cover in the trunk, put it on when I get to work, take it off and fold it into the trunk if I want or need to go anywhere during the work day, put it back on, etc. Having a car cover or a garage doesn’t…

They were a tax avoidance thing here - that way the BRAT was classified as a passenger car and not a light truck. They discontinued the seats after a few years.

She’s actually the woman on the single sleeve artwork. IIRC she went on to be a realtor and uses “mysharona(dot)com” as her company’s website. I’m sure there are other details I’m forgetting. 

Saw a lot of “Proud Deplorable” t-shirts and bumper stickers, and I don’t live in what is largely considered “trump country”.