My favorite is when you’ve been scouring the forum using their crappy search for hours, can’t find an answer to your problem, so you finally make an account and post, only to have some gatekeeping troll tell you, “did u try looking for a solution in another post we’re not here to answer the same questions all day…

Know what’s worse than your parents having a terrible car? Having parents that don’t drive at all.

Back in 1978, my mom was getting some driving time in behind the wheel of an uncle’s ‘73 Pinto. I’m not sure of the exact circumstances, but they ended up upside down in a small river and somehow survived. After that, she…

What’s funny is that I was able to fix the actual radiator leak myself with a little bit of JB Weld after the fact.

I’ve lost track of how many of the good local shops have went south after the original owners retired or sold out for whatever reason. Something similar happened to one shop I used, the owner had to see the shop due to his health. At first, it seemed like the new owner was fine, but quality of service went downhill.…

My POS Dodge Shadow decided to overheat due to a crack in the thermostat. Me, being the complete idiot 18-year-old I was at the time, was stuck in a Piggly Wiggly parking lot and needed to get home. So, I went inside, bought two jugs of distilled water, and did what I thought I was supposed to do - and dumped all of…

Thanks! You’d think I’d know, living in rural Appalachia, which is pretty much methhead central (outside of Florida and some other places). 

Anything.

You can tell I didn’t do many drugs (although everyone else in my family did). What do the kids these days call meth? Crank? Glass? I didn’t watch Breaking Bad.

Live in Amish country, can confirm.

Some of these dudes drink more than my father, although I’m not sure that played a factor in the video. They have to basically beat the horses just to get them to keep a steady 10mph. So either A.) something really spooked that horse, or B) it was tied up at a Kwik Stop and some…

I was into Corvettes because my best friend told me I had to be.

But I vividly remember this commercial from 1996:

Toyota doesn’t do platforms quite like, say, GM. There’s often a lot of variation depending on market requirements, even amongst vehicles riding on the “same” platform. Up until the mid-’90s, pretty much every mid-size BoF vehicle Toyota sold was some variant of the Hilux. That’s when the Hilux, Tacoma, and…

Pontiac in the ‘90s:

Technically, they all share more-or-less the same platform. It just depends on which one you consider the "base" configuration.

What you’re describing is the same as the frame of the original XJ Cherokee. It has what looks like a traditional ladder frame underneath, but it's fully welded to the body. It's been called a unibody SUV for the last 40 years because, well, that's what it is.

I rented a Sonic and was shocked at how alright it was. After the Cruze went up a half-size, this is the vehicle that I feel like took over the “cheap compact” duties from the Cavalier/Cobalt, and I really enjoyed my time with it.

In a good way - I’ve talked about this ad nauseum, but here it goes - I bought a Dodge Grand Caravan after renting one for a week and realizing that I needed one in my life. No it’s not perfect - driving dynamics are meh, infotainment system is abysmal, and it’s not that efficient. But the cargo and people hauling…

I’m down in Gallia County, my wife’s family is from Meigs and we go to Parkerburg/Vienna quite often. I usually swing by that Sheetz in downtown Parkersburg by the bridges.

For a long time, I didn’t want to be locked down to a cellular network contract, so I bought crappy unlocked phones on Ebay (this is back in the early 2010s) and stuck with pre-paid. The last one of these phones was a Sony Xperia something-or-other, that ran Android so poorly that one day I screamed at it and threw it…

Last year I drove up to Dearborn to visit the Henry Ford museum. It’s an amazing collection of American manufacturing history and invention, and seeing the original Ford “factory” (literally a house), Wright Bros. bike shop, Edison’s lab, and other artifacts was just amazingly cool. Like you said, so much happened in…

There’s not too many in Ohio, but thankfully (sometimes), I live just across the river from West Virginia, and the three largest cities near me - Huntington, Charleston, and Parkersburg - are full of Sheetz stores. That’s where I have to drive to find your typical big-box and mall-type stores, and every time I go, I…