The novelty of it. Remember, just about every car was just a used car at one time or another. Nobody was interested in Ford LTD station wagons, but turn up in one now and people will look, either because they’re too young to know what it is or they’re old enough to remember when they were common. Do I think they’re…

Especially since a preorder cost what, a hundred bucks? That’s a hell of a flex for a hundo. 

Comparing the GTO to the Corvette is kind of comparing apples to oranges. The Corvette was not a “muscle car” - it is marketed as a sports car and is targeted towards things like the Porsche Boxster and 911, various BMWs, etc. They may have shared an engine, but then again so did the C1 and the ‘57 Bel Air - and…

I don’t know how you’ve been looking, but I lucked into a bike last March because one of the smaller chains (Wheel & Sprocket, I went to the Evanston location) listed what I wanted* as “in stock”, and it happened to be at their Madison store. So they brought it over for me. A few other people I know have gotten bikes…

If this early era of Shelby interests you, I recommend “Shelby American Up Close And Behind The Scenes: The Venice Years” by Dave Friedman. Mostly photos (Friedman was the Shelby American photographer at the time, and has published a bunch of books about motorsports in this era), it still has a lot of info packed in…

I feel that this show is going to be awful, just because it features some of the creative team behind Last Man Standing. LMS was just a terrible show - even ignoring it’s conservative stance it just wasn’t well written or funny, and terribly acted by a lot of the cast. It was an obvious attempt to catch Home…

I don’t eat there regularly, but Culver’s is my go to when I’m on the road. Far better than the other big burger chains.

The Novice Car is a Lancia Delta S4, with the front fascia of an Escort Cosworth and a roof scoop grafted on.

Well, the minions won’t consider the aftermarket wheel because the yoke is disrupting the industry with it’s game changing. The wheel add ons are just an isnult to it’s genius.

Expense. There wasn’t a space laid out for a clock in the main dashboard, since it was an option (and you couldn’t integrate it into the radio, like you can with a digital clock in an LCD panel), and coming up with a reasonable way to fill that round space was probably an expense BL didn’t want. You’ll note it’s in a…

Two spoke steering wheels are underrated, IMO.

Protip: always have a couple of old pairs of corded earbuds in the car for wireless earbud battery death situations. 

Give it a couple hours, it’ll come back around.

I feel like I’ve never had it happen except at Starbucks. It sure as hell never happens at Dunkin’ or Caribou.

Yep - I think the last one rolled out the door in December of that year. Believe it or not BL was trying to figure out ways to keep the B in production longer. A couple of different engines were being tested since emissions in the States was one of the biggest issues facing the car.

For a long time you’d see…

Well, with things that are sporty (Viper, 370) the dealer might just be keeping it as showroom bait, something shiny and fast to draw people into the showroom when they’re looking for a pickup or crossover to buy. I could even see that with the FJ, as I’d definitely stop to look at one in a showroom.

As for the normal…

“Pensive Wookiee” sounds like something dirty you’d read about on Urban Dictionary.

Man, I was super looking forward to hooking up with Sara but then we got down to business and it was a total pensive wookiee.

I have a set of the plain ones you have to jack the car up onto. They’re perfectly fine if you’re going to leave the car on them for an extended period of time - yeah, it takes a little extra time to jack up the front, then the back, of the car to drop it onto the dollies but I only need to do it twice a year - in…

I was never involved in that many forums, but I was pretty active in the ones I joined. I eventually realized that a lot of the time, forums tend to turn into big circle jerks. Once you’ve been there a while you start seeing the same things over and over again, and the same opinions over and over again. And you also…

I dunno, I’ve seen it happen at live auctions as well. Someone gets the idea that they need something, and they’ll keep going till they win the item. Shoot, I had that happen (kind of by mistake) on eBay last year when I was searching for a vintage camera. I paid more than I wanted to but I didn’t pay over market so…