Monkeys, typewriters, Shakespeare and whatnot...

To dismiss the concerns over political viewpoint (i.e., “left-leaning”) is once again a symptom of the disconnect that the urban coastal regions of America continue to have with just about everyone else.

That’s actually a nice-looking car. Perfect candidate for a motor swap except I know the interior is typical 80s GM crapola.

The local Olds place got one of the 4-door versions of these cars in a color I can only describe as “Revlon,” because it looked like a shade of rouge. After sitting on the lot for a whopping 2 whole months, the paint started to disintegrate. A year later, it was still there, and the clear coat was breaking down on…

Bricklin SV-1. Looks fabulous from all angles, and with the converted air doors that go “POOSH!!” every time you open them, you always made an unforgettable entrance.

If you knew the history of the town you’d know that the government actually took as much away from them as gave to them. Big chunk of the NASA-related stuff in Houston, Texas? It’s there because Lyndon Johnson moved it from Huntsville, Ala. A total of 3,000 engineering jobs got moved in one chunk because LBJ had to…

Funny, I have the opposite experience. Mostly because all 50 states have about the same ratio of good-to-bad among their respective populations, yet everyone’s jockeying to assert their own state is perfect, has no uneducated rural communities, etc. Once you travel enough around the country you realize that for the…

Take a look at the brochure in one of the replies below. Also, I’ve been involved specifically in SQC for about 20 years now and we have a long-term member who has a car with a Dodge title. It’s an 86.

I have that same brochure. My understanding is it was Plymouth in 83 and 84, Dodge in 85 and 86, and Chrysler in 87-89.

I posted this in the “Is There a Car You Wish You Still Had” story from earlier this week. I think it illustrates just how much of a connection I had with these cars, and it’s part of why I aborted a plan to buy a new car last month and opt for a used one instead, so that I had money left over to find a restore my…

Two of them. Both heartbreaking stories (to me anyway):

If those cops ever stop a Marcos, boy are they gonna be surprised...

My first car. We called it the Tempo of Doom. Horrible little thing it was.

Any of you guys responding in the thread ever had a dealer refuse NOT to put one on your car? I did. Flat-out told me, “Sorry, that’s company policy, we put these on every car we sell.” So my blacked-out Ford Taurus SHO now had a glaring, all-white dealer sticker on the back of it. We got it off in about 5 minutes,…

Not arguing the science but I don’t think that should be on the parents to bring the seat with them. I traveled with a car seat — once. Will not do it again. It’s going to keep us out of the air as a family for a couple of years but if I can get somewhere in a car in under 12 hours I’m OK with it anyway, so basically…

One of my personal pet peeves is the cycle of: Company falls out of favor -> Public shuns them -> Company starts making good (sometimes superior) products again -> Public won’t give them a chance because they don’t want to be made fun of by their less-informed friends.

Each lane typically has a circuit breaker that I would throw. That still doesn’t stop someone from manually throwing it back and then cutting the lane on at the control counter. It happened to me once but the lane they cut on was about 3 lanes down. The only way to survive in that scenario is to actually crawl deep…

Everything on Jaguar’s old XJ12 engine.

Recall that when C. Everett Koop was surgeon general, his eventual goal was for any BAC to be considered DUI. The standard (.10 then, .08 now, looks like .05 in the future) was just his way of slowly easing everyone into it.

OK. So don’t replace the current car, just add another level to it. If it’s expensive, let people pay for it. Everyone wins. You get your cheap beater, I get my Z fighter.