What the freakin what? Is that a compressed air tank? Is that necessary to make those doors work?

South America from the 70’s through the 90’s.

Also, behold: The Subaru center ‘third eye’ passing lamp. Not strictly a pop-up, instead it was a hidden lamp that was uncovered when the driver wished to pass another vehicle.

September, 1990 and I decided to buy a car for my birthday. Saw a classified ad for a Saab Sonett III and went for a look. It was rough and I didn’t know a whole hell of a lot about Sonetts except that I had to have one. After chatting with the seller and walking around the car, he invited me to sit in it and fire it…

You’re going to love the Monster 1200R. I test-rode it earlier this year and could not suppress a huge grin the whole time.

The structural engineer originally specified continuous allthread that ran the full vertical height from the lowest balcony to the ceiling. Large nuts were to be threaded on and spun up each length of allthread until the nuts were at the proper height to support each balcony. And the allthread was designed to support…

Wow, that was weird. Even the credits are a hoot.

Here’s a thought for a future article, Sean: Why are retro-cars reviled, but retro-cruisers are not? Recent articles about retro-cars like the PT Cruiser and the Chevy retro-pickup (I forget its name) have mentioned that they are not popular except with a pretty small slice of the market. And all domestic retro-cars…

The truth of what ISIS wants is rather more nuanced than that.

The media was reluctant to print the text of Bin Laden’s manifesto, but eventually some media outlets published it. It was years ago now, but the stated reason for the attacks according to the man behind them was to get the U.S. to stop meddling in Saudi Arabia and the rest of the middle east. Nothing in there about…

>the tape was destroyed

Jeebus, who is that guy and why does it look like he has the world’s first ‘kill-kit’ with him? Is that a garrote in his gloved hands?

Two things that cemented my dislike of Harleys:

Whatever your point is, it is inscrutably obtuse. The Victory, in your own words, handles like a pig and is difficult to ride. To me that translates into a ride that’s cumbersome and dangerous, solely in the name of style (which for retro-cruisers is acres of chrome, whitewall bias-ply tires, and what Harley calls…

I was out on a ride with a sportbike club one day a few years back and we caught up to a very large dump truck driving very slow on a fun, twisty road. “End of our fun for a while”, we all thought. Then on the next straight segment, the dump truck pulled left and passed the group of Harleys he was stuck behind.

>I’ve got some serious lust for... a Dyna

>those white walls get you shit tons of attention

And how do you know I don’t already have subscriptions to Navy Times, Stars & Stripes, Car & Driver, Motor Trend, and every other enthusiast publication?

Side effect of web-driven blog content. When a car magazine (or any other magazine) came out once a month, editors constantly proofed and revised their writers’ work. Cleaning up awful sentences like the one you note above.

A “design stable”, you say? Stables are for horses. Print that out, and staple it to a picture of some other Italian supercar, from that other Italian manufacturer.