Agreed, I have definitely thought about a Skoda, I’ve seen a couple 120s around the area, probably immigrants or dual-citizen folks like David. Totally fascinating, as if the Corvair was really that revolutionary and our ‘80s and ‘90s econocars all went ass-engined rather than transverse/FWD from the Mini.

I can taste that junior chemistry set of soda, my mom had that shit constantly in the ‘80s, the nasty can color and please god let it not be warm anxiety of the first sip. Jesus, no wonder I like R/C and Old Style.

I’d love to roll through one in a cammed Stingray with sidepipes.

I looked at a mk6 a lot, those look like an obvious next step from the mk4, I never understood the blobby doorstop mk5, yuck. Never bit the bullet with the engine issues, though I know things were better than the FSI stuff, but the mk6 is seriously amazing looking for a damn hatchback.

Grumpy Cat as a car, folks.

I’d argue that this is nearly peak VW from a broad viewpoint. Yes, VW made enough Beetles to convert the moon to a dedicated scrapping location, but I don’t think VWs had ever hit as hard as they did right around Y2K. People make fun of the CELs, but they were stupid little shit that really didn’t need that much…

You could have left “liberal” out and it would have been at least decently accurate, but to everyone just throwing that word around you know it has the same root word as “liberty,” right? Like, when people scream about “freedom” and then throw the word “liberal” around like its an insult doesn’t anyone get those are…

I lol’d

May your engine always brap more than your ass.

Dude, swap meets

There is literally nothing cooler than looking at a person’s collection of personal crap, clothing and housewares and stuff for boring but when I get to see the electronics, the gadgets, the junk from 1988, that’s the good stuff. I didn’t even have to watch the video to be sold since Torch was holding a Virtual Boy up…

Golf clap? Golf clap.

Yippie ki yay my friend

I cannot tell you how many times I watched this on USA Network some random afternoons, I love it and it has aged way better than you'd expect.

X-Men Legends was amazing, way better than expected anyway if I take off the ol’ rose tints, and I remember specifically thinking how much cooler some of the X-Men were after the game since using abilities is different than just reading about them. I liked both, and would certainly play another.

Ok, but another part was the Dems and Repubs losing momentum because of graft and chronyism mixed with the for a couple of years enforcement of post-war race laws before that lost it’s lunch to Jim Crow and the major start of the KKK. It doesn’t matter if Reconstruction was bound to work or not, it didn’t because of…

Say what you will about the lead-up but post-Civil War America was ridiculous. Spend a few years working on the South and then, ho hum we’ll all rollover and basically ignore the 600,000+ dead because dude, we’ve been working on Reconstruction for at least half a decade and we’re tired.

It also shows that that aspect of things has been being gamed since the beginning

My friend had to drop anchor literally every time we’d go to Borders, didn’t matter what time for what we had been doing before, my theory is that a bookstore is often very much like a library where it’s calm and relaxing. I think the smell of books and carpeting and all that stuff helps too, book stores tend to be…

Chopped, channeled, frenched, the holy trinity of vintage Jalops. This is a good people’s car.