for a lot of folks in the news biz (especially local, in my experience), the “good family man” image is valuable, desirable, and encouraged. Also, I find that those who embrace it the most publicly are the biggest assholes.

yeah, it’s a limited edition Callaway, but it’s still a C4 that’s been sitting for two decades. CP.

wow....Shamokin Dam. That’s a deep cut from the childhood ‘cross the river in Sunbury.

mostly teenage boy cruising on backroad hijinks in my friend’s Eagle. Sadly, the blue woody wagon wasn’t exactly a chick magnet. :-/

I so *want* to go NP on this one, because I have an eternal soft spot for these (early teenage driving memories), but 10k, even in this kind of condition, is just to much...

...that’s only once all the mines come back <<wink wink>> right?

All these are great, but *at least* one must end with “...BELIEVE ME
“ in order to not stretch credibility.

A friend of mine in high school had a Dodge Rampage - primer gray as nature intended, and he’d need to turn the A/C off in order to successfully have enough power to make it up some hills, but it was the late 80s, it was a car, and mostly got us where we needed to go.

you’d think so, but my federal employee network is currently windows 10....which the rank and file use to telnet into an IBM mainframe running COBOL applications!

oh jeez, memories of Saturday road trips with my dad and his AM country radio...work in his crush on Lorie Morgan, and it’d be just about perfect....

I sort of think the same thing - Kelly sounded (at least the bit I heard on the radio last night) a bit annoyed that his job continually involves defending someone who continually manages to fuck things like this up.

two members of one of the bands I play with currently own and drive Versas. Both are constantly hitting me up to clear check engine lights with my OBDII reader.

REX MANNING DAY!

price seems right, though the “speed holes” in the engine bay, and what looks like it could be some rust on the bottom of the passenger door on that interior photo worries me. NP, but buyer beware.

yeah, it might be a bit smaller back there, but not a whole lot. One thing to note, my Vibe (and I assume your Matrix) had the hard plastic cargo floor/spare tire lid with the neat little tie-down rails? That’s now a rather thin pressboard bit with carpet on it - still plenty of extra room for tools/do-dads down in…

I’ve had both (‘06 Vibe -A Matrix with a different front clip - and currently drive a ‘16 iM); they’re pretty much identical; the iM has an extra gear (6spd manual) and slightly better suspension out back, but the feel is pretty much the same to me. They’re very basic transport, but fun for tossing around corners and…

sadly no - tiny trunk, iron duke, two headlights. not the cool one at all. :-(

always had a soft spot for these - this was the generation that popped up soon after I got my driver’s license - I was stuck mostly getting where I need to go in an ‘80 Chevy Monza 2+2 with an Iron Duke, but I had aspirations for the F-body; I actually kind of liked the styling; it hit some nice aerodynamic cues, but…

I’ve been an assistant scoutmaster and merit badge counselor with the BSA - based on my experience, the Youth Protection Program training (the bare minimum you need - stuff like “two-deep leadership” and basic commonsense behaviors to avoid impropriety or the appearance thereof) is taken very seriously, at least by…

if you happen to have Lidl in your area, they’ve got amazing Thin Mint and Samoa equivalents for under a buck a package.