Yup, but that’s clearly a 6-bbl air cleaner. Most likely one of its owners added a 6-bbl setup later. 

Ah, that made my day. Thank you.

OK, that’s not a 426 in the white one. A 426 would be a Hemi in 1970.

I only wish Toyota and Buyer’s Misery Works had aborted this thing instead of becoming parents together. 

Yeah, I was thinking along these lines too. If it’s creepy to do to someone underage (and it is), then it doesn’t become OK once they turn 18. Creepy is creepy. 

I officially want one of these more than a new Accord.

The Zero had small and unassisted ailerons, so at high speeds its turning advantage was considerably less. Still, even in a Spitfire, I’d stick to hit-and-run attacks against one. 

The A6M pretty well outclassed the late pre-war American fighters, such as the P-40 and P-39, and was, despite its flaws, pretty formidable toward the end of the war. What made the biggest difference was the American pilots’ change of tactics. Boom and zoom attacks worked. Trying to turn with a Zero was never a good…

These electronic door releases are just the dumbest thing ever, and totally unnecessary. They don’t make the car better, and they have the potential for shit like this to happen.

That’s not enough. They’d need to pay me more than that. 

The Camaro’s biggest problem isn’t that it has to compete with Mustangs; it’s that it also has to compete with used ‘Vettes.

It looks thoroughly disreputable, and I like that.

For that kind of money, it is a hypercar.

I think it’s the other way around: Trans Ams made Burt cool. 

Not even safe in his own home. I fear cops more than the people they’re supposed to protect us from. 

I remember around 2005 I was at my local Acura dealer having my car serviced, and browsed the lot for TSXs. They had a 1-year-old used one with about 20,000 miles, and it was stickered at $800 below the cost of a brand new one on the same lot. 

I was going to suggest saving some money and buying a 3rd gen 4runner, but then I realized that 17-year-old, 4wd 4Runners sell for about as much as that new Accent. 

This looked insane to me, but then I plugged my last payment on a used car into an inflation calculator and saw that I was paying an inflation-adjusted $460/month for a used car when I was 20.

Wholeheartedly agree. I don’t care what it is. Even if it’s a beat-up old Yugo, I will go out of my way to not touch or damage it. It’s not my property. When I am at car shows, I take care not to even lean so that I’m hovering over the car. I treat them like the paintings in a museum. 

An FD RX-7 with a hopped-up Busso V6 swapped in holds alarming appeal to me.