Nice. Is that a specific track? I’ve considered getting back into car modeling (I got back into building kits by spending the last couple of years building an HO railroad for my dad), and was considering a diorama of something like the Esses at Riverside or something, then populating it with some Can Am cars or a…

Strangely most of the car photos on my walls were of old cars. Road & Track used to do a feature called “Salon” which would be a story about a significant older car, with fresh photography of a good example and a two-page spread in the middle of the article. I cut out a bunch of those, taped them together, and hung…

I used to have a little jump pack that you charged from a regular household outlet. That came in handy numerous times, though I suppose you have to keep up on charging it in the house/garage. 

I kind of like the fact that the left the lighter in place!

So I just went and rewatched that scene, and this is what they say:

I think that most urinals have exposed pipes, so the fire department can use those, though I don’t know how exactly. Sane with toilets - you can access the water supply. The self contained pee boxes in the men’s room didn’t have that as I recall. Not sure about the pure barre ladies’s room, though.

I thought that was what the noise was in the last scene 

I imagine that there’s a lack of entertainment content other than TV reviews, so they’re dredging up really old articles. I’m okay with this, since I haven’t been reading this site since 2010 a lot of them are new to me.

I’ll be in my bunk

Worked with a guy years ago who had one of these. College student, wasn’t home except to sleep, would just toss stuff wherever in his Escort sedan. Car was literally full of trash and fuck knows what except for the driver’s seat. One day I was leaving work (retail, so we had lots of students), and he was waiting by my…

I dig that Citroen as well. I thought it was an old Golf for a second, till they showed the whole front end.

That’s gotta be a Williams Sonoma item. Reminds me of these refrigerator magnets we carried at Borders back in the day - six feline backsides, in various coat patterns and colors, with anuses fully on display. And not like cartoony, either, these were photos.

Didn’t even give us the cat looking over it’s shoulder,…

There was a Jeep dealership near me that had one of those on the lot - I think it was the JK8 kit that turns a four door Unlimited into a two door pickup. (This was definitely a two door pickup). Beautifully done conversion, it had a lift kit, bigger wheels and tires, a really nice rig-but they were asking like $70K…

I’ve never seen one of these things that

No, there’s a reason the early ones were called the “Quaalude”. 

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.