You’d be shocked how long people’s memories are about this stuff. My folks won’t consider any GM car based on the last one they owned -an ‘84 or so Cavalier wagon (I’m guessing on the year, but it’s one of the old square ones), purchased new. It was my mom’s car, and my dad was driving an Omni 024 at the same time…

So explain to me this whole thing where he turned up carrying a bathroom sink. Is it simply his idea of a joke, saying “the company’s going down the drain”, or was there a tweet or some other quote I didn’t see? 

I love me a nice fifth of Forth after dinner, but it’s kinda hard to get here, gotta go to the fancy liquor store and not the Jewels.

(I kid, I know it’s an autocorrect fail! Also I’m a bit of a architecture dork, and you’ve spotlit one of my favorite bridges). 

That weird rear steer big wheel kids trike that Louise on Bob’s Burgers rides. Every kid I knew who had one desperately wanted one because of how they looked and were different, and they all hated them once they rode them. Those things sucked!

This isn’t a bad theory. It hinges on how long the car was down there and what if anything the VIN (if still extant) can tell us of the history of the car. If it was reported stolen when it was relatively new then it might be evidence (you don’t bury a car worth $60K or so because it’s probably not a “POS”). If it was…

Nah, you’d just get it cut up at a chop shop or something (plus an SL isn’t practical enough, there’s only room for one person besides the driver and you prolly have a couple of people on your crew for a good sized bank heist).

Most eighties Japanese cars just dissolved here in the midwest. Didn’t matter the manufacturer, they just rusted away faster than just about anything else except maybe 70's Alfas. 

I don’t think so - the MZR engine is a much more technically advanced engine than the earlier ones, and AIUI, they’re not as easy to tune for power compared to the old iron block B series engine, which you could almost just stick a turbo onto, advance the timing a bit, and go.

The RF is my least favorite Miata as well, and it’s entirely due to the fact that it’s a retractable hardtop car done exactly incorrectly. It needed to either be fully folding (like the NC retractable hardtop) so it could be a real convertible, or a simple lift out targa panel and an electric retracting rear window if…

And you act like this guy is the only person in the area who might want to move vehicles to higher ground. A lot of people probably had the same idea, so hotels were likely booked up, as well as any parking garages. You snooze, you lose, as they say.

I understand it. If I’m fleeing my home because of a storm like this (or wildfire, etc.), I’m probably going to try and get everyone and whatever luggage needed into one vehicle rather than try and deal with keeping multiple vehicles together while we try and get somewhere safe. Especially if one of those vehicles is…

I think the“jag-wire” pronunciation is influenced by some regional American accents. Nobody here (I live near Chicago) says it that way, but I’ve heard some people with thicker southern accents say it that way. I’ve actually seldom heard it that way, now I think about it.

I would like to see the breakdown of types of guns found - I would think the vast majority would be handguns. Most of the actual hunters I know (a tiny amount, admittedly) would have a special case for their rifles and whatnot, and not be putting them in a suitcase. 

Simple, I like convertibles.

My first car was an MG Midget, and I dailied a ‘96 Miata between 1999-2015, and by the end the car was completely worn out - it lived outside permanently, was street parked in Chicago for a while, then sat at a friends in the suburbs being driven on weekends for a while because my new…

I can’t think of a single station within a reasonable distance of either home or work that doesn’t have some kind of screen showing ads. Maybe if I drive 30 miles out into the country or something there’s a mom & pop shop with old pumps, I honestly can’t remember. 

Sure is. Daytona’s near a big city too, and it even has a road course! But, looking outside of rovals, you are left with pretty much only C0A (which was built fairly recently near Austin in order to be a draw for F1), and maybe Sonoma, as the only two actual road courses that are really anywhere near a major metro…

I think that’s the problem for a lot of tracks in the US. They’re not usually close to any major metro areas, so accommodations are motels or camping. 

It’s actually not that unusual in European sports cars of the fifties and sixties - much easier to just have individual instruments that you slot into the panel than something fully styled that needs to be put together as a whole unit then installed into the car. Pretty much any sports car of the era was like this.…

*Jalopnik Refugee Alert*

The irony is that the gauges in the Ferrari (a real one or the replica in the movie) are all separate units that are held into the dashboard with like two knurled nuts and a bracket. Unscrew them, the gauges come right out the front of the dash, the glass unscrews, and you roll the numbers…

I’ve long said that if the GTO hadn’t looked like a Cavalier that had been inflated by like 20%, it’d sold much better. The days of buying a muscle car that looks like your neighbor’s base model are long gone - for the expense people want something distinctive, and there was nothing whatsoever distinctive about the…