I can’t even remotely afford the only EV that interests me right now, the Ioniq 5 N. Plus, I live in an apartment with no charging infrastructure and nowhere to put one. Nevermind the fact that I just prefer the sounds and smells of internal combustion.

And, in this instance, he’s not wrong. About any of it.

Found the jock strap, I mean Trump Supporter.

I’d like to K-Swap an AW11 MR2, for some wedgy mid-engined fun.

I suppose it’s the time my friend and I decided to do a top speed run in my ‘72 240Z while heading south towards Mexico through San Diego. This happened back in the later part of the 80's, when I was still technically a teenager, but old enough to drink in Mexico.

Well shit, now you have me wondering about this, too. I searched and couldn’t find a pic with the canopy open. But there doesn’t appear to be any other way in and there’s a full interior. Plus, the description says so, so that must be it.

I always describe the sound of an uncorked rotary as, “A swarm of angry bees trapped in a beer keg with a microphone that’s been plugged into a Marshall stack cranked up to 11.”

I have a bit of a soft spot for this car because it’s one of the weirdest, yet coolest cars from my childhood. My friend’s stepfather had one sitting in his driveway for years, in not running condition. It couldn’t have been too old at that point, because this was probably around 1975 or 76. Same color, although a bit…

Mic drop...

Pacific Honda in San Diego tried to pull this kind of shit on me back in the late 90's. Except that they just told me that I needed to come in to “sign some extra paperwork” a week after selling me the car. When I did come in, they tried to get me to sign an entirely new contract with a different lender for a larger…

Weirdly, I pulled up to one exactly like this, but in red, in a Rite-Aid parking lot one day in a small mountain town east of San Diego called Alpine. We had a little chat, it was cool. They were like ketchup and mustard, together!

I only had a motorcycle, for a while, and was commuting on it daily. When I got some of that stimulus money, I used it to buy a beater for $1700 that I could drive to work when it was really cold or raining (I live in San Diego, so really cold for me is 45 and under).

$12K for a Malaise Malibu? No freakin’ way!

So far, that would have been GT Live in Fontana back in 2004. It was awesome to see some of the JGTC cars come over from Japan and see (and hear) them up close. That was also my first experience with D1GP drift cars, which was a lot of fun to watch.

I was hoping someone else noticed this.

The 2001 Saturn SC2 5spd that I’m currently driving. Bought it for $1700 during COVID from one of those proverbial old ladies who rarely drives it.

Good. Chrome should have died in the 70's.

This is pretty much what I came to say. Any malaise era American made car made after 74 with the ugly round air cleaner sitting on top of carb.

If I were to do something as stupid as buy this car, it would be solely because the body and interior is in really excellent shape. Then, I’d plan an engine swap to something that can back up those angular looks and doesn’t require overnighting non-existant Mitsubishi parts from Japan. Like a 1UZ with ITB’s...

Exactly. As an unabashed NIN fan, I resent the implication in the intro of this article that Cash’s ripoff cover was the better version.