This is the second time I’ve seen an old Tom article from years ago re-published. Is Tom leaving Jalopnik too?

Yeah, they were at best about 160 or so HP. But they had a look.

Smokey & the Bandit Part 3. Both Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham were done with the franchise by that point. This led to them coming up with the idea that Gleason’s Sheriff Justice would be both the Smokey and the Bandit in the film. Test audiences for the original version were very confused and displeased, so they…

No matter what your opinion of the movie is, I would say that it is not a ‘car movie’. It’s a police film that has a famous car chase in it.

My state has the digital ID. It pulls up all your info and a scan bar. Plus, it’s not just some file sent to your phone. It’s through an app. I suspect that Apple will have software that works in conjunction with the app. I must note that you still have to have a physical ID for law enforcement and TSA in Mississippi.…

It’s my understanding that it seats about 20.

A friend is a lawyer. We were talking about this weird logic a few weeks back. His response was that it wasn’t just weird but super specific weirdness. “They’ll choose this thing that started 400 years ago in England as the basis of their argument completely ignoring the fact that they stopped doing that thing 380…

Geez! Get a garage, you two!

We just don’t get all the snow and ice like up north that creates hazardous conditions. It pretty much all comes down to the level of dipshittery of the drivers down here.

The guy just didn’t see that Popeye’s sign until the very last moment.

5th: Even Elon isn’t stupid enough to fuck with the Chinese government. He can push around local governments in Cali and even brush back against US federal regulation, but the Chinese aren’t going to play that game.

We have a Trax as a company vehicle. I had to use it last week. Let me tell you guys something. The Trax may be ugly, but it is also uncomfortable.

Someone wants to be comfortable using something that they spend tens of thousands of dollars on and not feel like the simple act of using it is a chore! The bastards!

No doubt. Saw Dustin Rhodes and Jake Roberts at a con a few years ago. Their booths were next to each other. While Jake doesn’t stand up quite as straight as he used to, he’s still pretty damned tall. I think they’re both like 6 1/2 ft. tall. Rey Mysterio is 5'6", which isn’t huge; but it’s the average height of a…

At the end of the day, Bischoff became too friendly with Hogan and Nash. He let them influence the trajectory of the whole company. Hogan’s creative control clause also hurt because Hogan wouldn’t let the belt stay off his waist for too long. Bischoff himself admitted that bringing Hogan in didn’t move the needle one…

After a Nitro in Biloxi my friends went to a casino. Turns out that WCW had booked their wrestlers to stay at that hotel. Sitting at a blackjack table a few Jack & Cokes in, I look up and see Nash walking through the center of the casino to the restaurant that had apparently been reserved strictly for WCW that night.…

The nWo helped define an era of wrestling. Unlike what the article says, it didn’t make wrestling more ‘adult’. That’s a very uninformed view of what wrestling was before Vince made the clown shoes WWF model the nation wide/mainstream version with cartoons and toy sales. The nWo started to blur the lines of kayfabe.…

The closest dealers getting hybrid stock are about 80 miles away and turn them around pretty quick. They’re nice about it, but the party line is pretty much we can’t wait to sell you a car on Saturday when someone is here to buy it Wednesday. I get it. This market is fully in the dealerships’ favor. 

As much as I hate to do it in this market, it may be getting time to get a new ride. The gremlins are starting to add up in my 14 year old Focus. I’ve been wanting to get a Maverick, but I want the hybrid. Those are hard to come by in my area. A few pop up from time to time, but they’re usually Lariat trim. I just…

And then there’s that scene in Batman Returns.