Books. And my collection is pretty eclectic within the automotive sphere (I have books on a lot of other stuff too). Like, I have a bunch of books on hot rods and early drag racing history. And I have like 40 or so of the old “Original” guides. Two separate books just about Brooklands and the cars that raced there.…

See, mid to late sixties Grand Prix racing is my specialist area, and now I need both the Lotus and the Eagle. And I don’t think I’ve built a Lego anything since the 80's. 

There’s an episode of Seduced By Speed on Motor Trend about it as well. Kinda weird that two shows about this would appear at the same time. 

I always started with a Honda CRX Si, mainly because there was always one in the used car dealership that was black, just like the one I had in college. This happened in 1-4 (which is when I stopped gaming) 

I remember once hearing Gran Turismo described not as an automobile racing game, but as an automobile collecting game. And it wasn’t far off of how I treated them - I enjoyed the campaign structure of the various GT games, they were to me just a way of acquiring the cars, so I could then just bomb around the tracks in…

There’s a recent episode of Seduced By Speed on the Dale as well. In fact I think it was the premiere episode.

(Seduced by Speed is a Motor Trend show)

Legit question: do you actually mix the tuna salad in-store? In other words add the mayonnaise etc.? I always assumed it was pre-made but that packet looks like it’s just the tuna.

I like old metal license plates, myself.

You forgot the original S500/600/800 and the Beat. But IIRC they’ve never really made a mass market RWD car, like a luxury sedan or something, only FWD/AWD.

Man, I saw Big Oildeath at the Aragon back in like, ‘98, right after that first record came out but just before the bass player started dressing like one of the Blockheads from Gumby. 

Depends on where I am and for how long I’ll be gone. Nobody’s breaking into cars at the grocery store, but they are at the mall, so I’ll often lock up at the former but not the latter. That said, we had a rash of petty vandalism a few years back, and I’m not really fond of the idea of returning to my car and find that…

This is according to their website - they closed the one closest to me a year or so ago. I’m pretty sure the next nearest is still open, I drove right past the other day but didn’t pay any attention (wasn’t stopping for a beef!)

Beef Shack is still around, but they only have like five locations waaay out in the suburbs. 

That sounds amazing. I used some mild giardiniera to make olive relish for muffalettas once (it was a recipe I’d found) but it was still chunky, not spreadable. I’ll have to try it now!

Oh, I wonder how it would taste mixed with mayonnaise? I’m a big fan of things like chipotle or wasabi mayos. 

You forgot dijon mustard on a burger, because that’s too fancy and proves Obama was a lefty elitist who was just gonna keep eliting!

I always found it odd that people would criticize Obama for being elite, then go and vote for Romney, a man who was born into a wealthy, politically connected family. 

It kind of wonder if it has something to do with the enthusiast level of the owner. I’ve known a bunch of people with VW’s of various kinds over the years, and many of them felt that VWs were all nicely put together and felt really quality, but that dumb small stuff would go wrong and it would take ages to get fixed.…

ISTR some media types were super worked up about the fact that Obama had portable basketball hoops put up on the tennis courts so he could play basketball, and as you said probably more so because he was still pretty young and athletic - certainly more so than GWB, McCain, and Romney. 

For the longest time, the signature line on my work email said that the previous message had been brought to you by Loostner’s Castor Oil Flakes.

Got away with that one for like three years. 

Oh, man I did not know those were actually a thing you could buy! The only one (or ones, possibly there were a couple) I remember seeing were in a local grocery store when I was a kid - they were at the checkouts and were used to collect donations for the local animal shelter. I always assumed they were from the ASPCA…

Typo. It’s either $550 or $500