I was riding my first motorcycle ('71 CB350) down the gravel road my father lived on, when a rabbit sprinted out from the side of the road. It ended up running WITH the bike between the front and rear wheels for a moment before finally peeling off and dashing to the other side. I just tried not to panic and keep…

I miss the charm of late 70s and early 80s cars. I had a ($500) '83 Mazda 626 sedan back in '96 for a while. It had a feature called "ICS" - Integrated Chime System. Instead of just "binging" when the door was open or the lights were left on, it played a distinct melody for each warning. My wife and I used to sit and…

If I recall, Vector's got a fun history. I think Wiegert was ousted, Lamborghini bought them, then flipped them over to some company from Singapore? And I also seem to remember one having a cameo in "Rising Sun." Met with a tragic fate (well, a stunt double did) against a highway bridge.

I absolutely, 100% agree with 2 Wheels awesome! - the design was a Foose ripoff, the build quality was utterly sketchy, and there were so many engineering compromises it was tragic. I had a chance to do a shake-down drive on one after doing some work on one... and so I also 100% agree with lingenfleter. Go figure.

...and a whole lot everywhere else.

Yep, really like the car, actually, and it's pretty well executed. I just fear the seller suffered a head injury in the process.

You know, I'm thinking of buying it...

There was also an odd one on the Bridgestone Hurricane Scrambler 175 motorcycle. I bought one for $80 for my mother back in the day, but never had a chance to ride it (got it running, and she took it with her out of state). It was a traditional 1 down, 4 up 5-speed UNTIL you flipped a big lever on the side of the…

I'd have to vote for one of the early ones - the Model T. Doubt I could drive one without some serious coaching.

Is that similar to the semi-auto in the VW Bug around the same time? My friend Hedge had one - she'd just push down on the top of the stick and shift.

I worked for a very brief (and horrible) time in a salvage yard in the dead of winter. I remember getting a ticket to pull the rear bumper on a Justy we had. I was mortified at seeing it was little more than a plastic cover screwed and clipped to the thin sheetmetal body panels with a large styrofoam block underneath.…

I'm stranded in Baltimore while I replace the head on my J10 in front of my friend's house. I've been working on it for three days. I REGRET NOTHING.

Yes, it looks like a soft, cushy place to have an accident. Still have the old school every time. This is a junkyard 300 (non letter), and I still find it more compelling.

Ironically, I just bought a Jeep J10 flatbed farm truck the other day. And I live in the suburbs. Except for the gun lust, this guy and I are on the same page, right down to the Chilton's manuals and the Flogging Molly.

Irv Gordon's 1800S just passed 3 million miles... with the same motor this car has (B20). And if that doesn't do anything for you, it's an easy B230T conversion.

Yes they did, and don't call me Shirley.

I'll be damned if I can find it now, but a guy in the late 70s or early 80s built an oversized balloon with a wicker-bodied VW bus as the basket. He was his own chase vehicle. I don't remember anything about performance, but there's a good chance it was faster floating in the air than driving on the ground.

Easy. The one to my first car. :D

There's a prancing moose on the hatch of my 1800ES. ;)

Certainly not "The Wraith." *shudder*