Hey, where do you get off badmouthing the Golf Harlequin? It was one of the last VW projects that showed a bit of whimsy. A couple of years later they brought out the New Beetle, decided they wanted to bury the “cars for hippies” stereotype, and started sending nasty cease and desist letters to guys who ran fan…

Growing up in the 80's and 90's, Taco John’s was definitely concentrated out West, except, inexplicably, for one store in Athens, Ohio, where I went to college. I don’t think most people even realized it was a chain, since they had never heard of it (this was pre-internet for most people, the world was a lot smaller…

The problem is, out of all the commonly-occurring home-baked cookies (chocolate chip, sugar, peanut butter, snicker doodle, etc), oatmeal raisin are the least desirable, even if they’re still pretty good. So if someone says “I made homemade cookies!” you get all excited, then they turn around with a platter of oatmeal…

As a fat guy who’s tired of having a console or e-brake lever digging into my hip, I support this idea.

A co-worker of mine had one of these he bought new, and was still driving it every day for his 90-minute commute until 2010 or so. It had over half a million miles on it with no major issues (well, he DID have to replace one of the rear doors when it rotted out so badly that you could see the door card from the…

The Ram (a restaurant/microbrewery chain, I think they’re mostly limited to the Pacific Northwest at this point) used to do a burger with peanut butter & grilled jalapenos. It was fantastic.

I’m guessing the GT is aimed at old folks (like me) who grew up while the WRX/Evo wars were in full swing, and now that we can afford a brand new one, we realize that the base model is still basically an econo-box that rattles your teeth.

My favorite description of Richard Rawlings (I probably read it here) was “a human can of Miller Lite”. Spot on.

Checkmate, DaSilva.

This is interesting to read. I grew up in a UAW town in the Midwest, where everyone ONLY drove domestic cars. If you bought a Japanese car, you could pretty much count on it getting keyed or your tires slashed. The only brand that eventually became REMOTELY acceptable was Honda, since they opened an assembly plant…

Fun fact: No prunes in Dr Pepper. Never has been. From their FAQ:

>UK still has sit-down Pizza Huts?

>How many years has it been since you could get a NEW car for $4500?

(*Disclaimer: I’m a fan of David Tracy’s articles, and of Jeeps)

I did this to the door panels of an S-10 I had in high school, using that “stone texture” paint. (A buddy of mine did it to freshen up certain sun-bleached interior parts of an old Dodge Aries he had, to good effect). He was smart enough to only paint the hard plastic bits, remove them from the car first, and…

I don’t have the answer to any of these questions, and that’s exactly what annoys me about every restaurant pushing their app - nothing is standardized and it all works differently depending on where you’re at. Most fast food restaurants in my area started switching to the two-lane drive-thru, oh, fifteen or twenty…

My dad had a Maxima in the early 80's that “talked”, and as a 8-year-old who loved Knight Rider, I thought it was the coolest thing *ever*.

>the weird plasticized straw/horsehair/whatever old VW seats were filled with

Crack pipe, big time. And my daily is a brown wagon.

>This was a cheap bicycle that wasn’t meant to be an heirloom