You’ve never tried to sneak people into a drive in movie, have you? 

Ah, GPL. I’ve only ever really liked racing games, and I’d added some mods to a few, but I was completely nuts for that game. I had the original, plus the engineer and like three add ons that allowed one to drive the original 1967 cars (which I’d patched so the Honda and Cooper names were correct), plus the 1965…

I have a flight sim (Il2: 1946) that has a similar aircraft - the Heinkel Lerche, Germany’s version of a coleopter, which was never actually built (the game posits that WW2 went on after 1945 and includes various jets and prototypes). It was supremely difficult to fly, exacerbated by the fact that I’m a terrible…

Well, they have “New” Top Gear, the series starting with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and Jason Dawe. OGTG isn’t available, I believe (am prepared to be wrong, but MTOD started with the above series)

I’m not really a scooter guy but that right there is my dream scooter.

I was once accused of being an “elitist”, while in the same conversation being accused of not knowing anything about business, politics, or how anything works because I’m a Midwesterner and there’s no culture or news or anything in “flyover country”.

If you guessed this person supports Trumpe l’orange, you’d win one…

I prefer the looks of the Roadster to the coupe, myself, but don’t think the coupe looks bad. Both drive as well as the hatch MINI, so you can’t go wrong with one. 

I’ve long thought it was kind of a shame that Nissan wasn’t able to develop a left hand drive version of the R32/3/4 Skyline. It’s pretty clear that even the RWD versions would’ve been competitive in touring car racing against the but since it wasn’t sold anywhere (did Nissan officially sell them in the UK? I don’t…

I think the last couple of iterations of the Mazda 6 would’ve made good touring cars. They’d have at least looked badass. 

I think it looks a bit more like an (obscure car alert) Sunbeam Alpine Harrington LeMans coupe than the Crossfire, but I agree the back end droops a bit much for my liking. I think if the fender line was a bit straighter - but not completely straight - it’d look better.

They’re also retro, like the outer styling of the car. Porsche used to do it on their lightweight cars in the seventies, then reintroduced it in the 993 - the fabric loop instead of a plastic handle to open the door. They still do it on lightweight versions, and IIRC Singer does it too (though they inexplicably have a…

The mid to late 80's also saw the first real collector car boom, particularly for more recent vehicles (60's and 70's). Auction prices for old cars skyrocketed (they eventually fell back to earth), and it was probably the first time anyone really thought about cars as investments to make a profit on. So in addition to…

Bike saddles come in different sizes. Get it sized correctly and it’s no longer an ass hatchet.

I came very close to buying a Biturbo back in the mid 90's when I was in college. A friend of mine worked at a local Honda dealer as a porter, and this particular dealership always seemed to have a few interesting used cars lined up out front, the owner would go to auctions and pick up attention grabbers for the used…

You’re close. A few companies made it a policy to wish everyone a happy holiday, whatever it is you happen to celebrate, and I imagine a few towns started putting up signs that said “Happy Holidays” next to the Santa, and from Rush Limbaugh on your story is pretty much spot on. I generally stayed away from saying…

I caught Diesel Kiki at Lolla ‘95. Awesome show.

That sounds harrowing - I’ve slid off the road a few times, usually at slower speeds, but nothing like that. Black ice scares me more than regular snow. 

Bringing up mud was stupid, but I do wonder if a lot of snow would get stuck in there and jam the doors. I mean, these weren’t weekend fun cars when new, people dailied them, and that included driving home from work in a snowstorm if you lived somewhere that’s a thing.  Also, as someone who used to daily a car with…

So, at a previous retail job I had, we would get audited twice a year at random - the auditor would just show up at 8 am and away you went, your day shot shepherding an auditor all over the place. One of the auditors was a complete jerk, the kind of guy who would finish an audit, realize you’d done well, then go back…

I’ve never done a full engine rebuild, but I sure felt that way when I rebuilt the carbs or did ignition work on some of my previous cars.

I’ve also never done a full resurrection but I do kind of feel that way when I get our MG out of the garage for the first time in the spring (usually sometime in March - basically…