Weirdest car and best summer job: That summer I drove a Jeep CJ3 ex mail truck converted to sell Popsicles. Two speed auto, right-hand drive, and a seemingly bottomless cooler full of delicious ice cream bars in back!
Only drawback: I will never ever forget the tune to “What do you do with a drunken sailor” as long as…

I had one too! Saw one when I was maybe 10 or eleven, and vowed to buy one. Fast forward about twelve years and I bought one. It was not in great shape, but it was a hoot! The weird engineering that went into it: That big manual handle that pulled up the headlights, and the way the bracket that operated the…

Those tiny tailfins are adorable.

Same here. I’m not a sedan guy, and the ELR being a two-door made me hope it could be a future upgrade for me, as the prices of used ones dropped.

>Tacoma, Wa

Heh. I bought a Z32 convertible last year as a short-term disposable car while I save my pennies and wait for the cheap Tesla to come out in 2017 (or 2018, or 2019...)

Wow, that commercial is horrible.

You gonna post that video?
Um, asking for a friend...

You’re right. From the article:

Scary! Odd black box, heavy-gauge wires, and black electrical tape. All sitting where the shift knob should be...

Several incidents have come pretty close, but you’re thinking about the Titan missile silo that caught fire during a botched fueling exercise. After burning for nearly a full day with the crew unable to put it out (or even accurately tell what was happening inside the silo) the missile finally exploded, ejecting the…

Yeah, yeah, it’s fun to beat up on dem stoopid gub’mint bureaucrats. Fact is NHTSA, DOT, and industry partner ITE have been working on connected vehicle standards, protocols, and industry guidance for some time now. USDOT recently announced $42 mil in funding to pilot V2V and V2I programs.
And just announced today is…

Waterproof chainsaw, you say? Fine. But can it also win every race ever?

That bucket, sticking up, slowly submerging. It’s like every B-movie quicksand death, but with a ten-ton machine instead of a person.

Porsche 944, but flipped upside down.

And an interior that could only have come from the phoning-it-in styling department of GM. You got the GT package with “full gauges” but the steering wheel blocked all the ancillary gauges. You could see the speedo and the tach but the rest were hidden by your hands.

These were terrible cars, and when new they were perceived as cheap crap that people only bought because they somehow needed the ego-boost of buying American over all the superior Japanese cars available.

What killed the small truck was their lack of towing capacity.

Possible inspiration: Syd Mead’s late 60’s artwork. Syd was also the visual designer for Blade Runner.

I want to like that... When I first saw an Aztek ad with the available tent I was interested (before the media jumped on the Aztek-is-ugly bandwagon).