On my last trip to Vegas I brought home a 1.75 litre bottle of Kraken in my luggage. Safely tucked in in the middle of my suitcase, strapped into my toddler’s life jacket. Can’t be too safe, you know!

Personal highlight for me was when this song was when I did a grocery run in the Barracuda. A few minutes into shopping Barracuda starts playing and I couldn’t help but smile. No one else probably even noticed, but how often to you get a Barracuda played at a grocery store when there’s one sitting right out front!?

This very appropriate as I call Land Rovers ‘Yaletown minivans” as they’re what all the moms drive in the upper class and trendy Yaletown area near where I live. Now they have a stroller to go with their overly expensive “minivans”. God forbid they might be seen somewhere where they can’t show off their status…

Oh god, I’ve done two car shows and have run into the “Best in Show” ‘Numbers Matching” guy. For some reason the guy beside me always wins an award/trophy. One guy was really cool about it, but the other guy... first thing he says to me is he always wins. He, of course, wins which is obviously no surprise as he…

My wife’s former boss travels around B.C. most of the summer. Her trusty GPS took her mustang convertible down a rough logging road. No fun was had even with the top down.

Because there’s a big difference between good sounding exhaust and terrible sounding exhaust. Just like wearing a miniskirt, sure you’ll get attention but it’s not always good attention.

Yes, very much agree. Hate sitting beside someone with a fart can muffler and can be heard from 5km in every direction. Your beat up Prelude looks like garbage, you don’t need to make everyone glare at you every time you touch the gas pedal. No likes the noise you’re making and it must be horribly loud inside the…

I take it there aren’t any pictures of lovely ladies and minivans, eh?

An Infiniti driving driving like an idiot!? I’m shocked to my very core.

Someone told my sister I as a bouncy baby boy... she was devastated to find out I did not in fact bounce....

My youngest is the best at this. Oh looks she’s all cuddly and sweet and ... OH DEAR GOD YOU’RE FULL ARCHING BACKWARD WHILE RAGDOLLING.... Pinned her knees to my chest with my elbow, hung on for dear life until wife could help. Thank you crazy parent reaction time!

I’ve seen some real Code Browns involving drivers behaving like the Miata driver. Most recent time was a kid driving a full minivan that decided to pass a car on an uphill curve on a double solid line on a highway. The oncoming car, which I was driving behind, was a Ram 2500 Diesel traveling at about 120km/h.  

Didn’t look that blind? Really?!? Fast driving + curves + pass where you cannot see oncoming vehicles = VERY, VERY DUMB. No reason to drive like this. Puts the safety of all road users at risk.

Now technically a ‘69 ‘Cuda had a 340, 383 or 440, none of which I have. I have the “lowly” 318. (Clarified so as no to offend any car snobs...) But man I love this car. Turns out I am much more willing to perform random errands for my wife when it’s on the road too! What’s that hunny? We’re out of blinker fluid…

Great article, although I’ll admit I skimmed read it. This is really why I love cars. It’s the history that goes with them that makes them so fascinating. I much prefer this over the latest guy to fork out 150k on a car that he keeps locked in a garage. There is no history, no soul to that car.

I have a three year old daughter who loves Paw Patrol. I’ve noticed in the past how often Skye and Everest are left off of “Paw Patrol” stuff. And given that Chase is her favourite (my daughter’s partner-in-crime is a German Shepherd) it’s lame we have to choose between the boy stuff which features everyone but the…

Does it drive better if you are wearing a pair of Daisy Dukes? Asking for a friend obviously....

I would definitely agree, especially for the sliding doors. Parking spaces keep getting smaller, and it gets damn difficult to pull baby in their carrier out of the normal door with someone parked close to your door.

I like this segment, but I’ve now moved onto “Does it baby+toddler+German shepherd.” Doesn’t leave a lot of options so I’m moving toward a minivan purchase (oh the horror!?).

Ran when parked.