“I can’t imagine any carmaker trying to get away with something like this today”

Prove it

Its in West Milford

For the record, I accidentally wrote “Oil Fitler” in my initial draft, and I’m not sure why I changed it given how badly this filter wants to ruin lives.

That first millimeter of movement is probably like seeing your newborn child for the first time.

Translation: We couldn’t get/didn’t want to pay for crash certification.

Carjacker: Get out of the car!
Me: Ok, just make sure you throw it into first a second time before you try to get it into second. It can be temperamental.
Carjacker: What?
Me: Oh, and don’t twist the ignition key to hard. The lock cylinder comes loose.
Carjacker: Ok ok...
Me: And don’t open the driver’s side rear window.…

It also helps you drive a shitty car. Carjackers actually give David a couple of bucks when they see him driving the Valiant. They figure he needs the money more than they do.

For us, that was a local Pep Boys

Not going to argue the Miata being better for etc romance and reliability, but MGBs have tons of leg room, at 6'0" I had several extra clicks on the seat adjustment available, and unlike Triumph TRs, which are super narrow, there is good shoulder room too. You may be thinking of the aptly named MG Midgets and not the…

Although it’s not clearly indicated in the paragraph, that figure is from the referenced Santa Clara County study, and represents children under the age of five years old.

Or hydrogen filled, and blimp shaped. We could name them after a famous rock band....

It’s too bad we could never find a way to strip protons from the lead during combustion.  Emissions would be gold and lithium.

Owen Bellwood: Licence to Spell

See, we call it a trunk because very early cars had literal trunks (as in, the piece of furniture used for storing things) on the back.

You call them boots because... I dunno? Did you put your feet in them?

I miss the wacked out comedy options on these things. So...

Giving my fat, sloppy, drunk uncle a shave and a tracksuit might give him street cred but does nothing for my opinion of him.

WRX hatch would be the answer here, but Subaru forgot how to make those.

Also, I still think that face looks like a whale doing filter feeding.