Especially because the driver appears to be right friggen’ behind the pseudo-Cop. If he actually was a cop, he’d be detaining the driver, not in front of the driver, facing toward the crowd, waving his badge.

“a 44-year old ragtop making 60 HP.”

They also hydroplaned a Fiero across a lake. It was both awesome, and tear-evoking (because I owned a Fiero when they did that stunt).

I have a six-year-old nephew and a 34-year-old-but-going-on-13 brother-in-law that would love this movie to pieces. It would be their new favorite film, at least until Transformatrons XIV comes out.

So, wait, when we citizens complain about government surveillance or search warrant abuse, we are told we have nothing to fear if we are truly innocent.

Jason noted there are two scoops, one on either side in front of the front wheels, that appear to be air scoops for the radiator (or radiators). But there doesn’t appear to be any way to service the radiator(s) as the body of the car appears seamless with no hoods, doors, or other openable panels other than the…

That is just all sorts of WTF.

There seems to be something missing from the engine - the two flat brackets in front and behind the air cleaners held a big scoop of some sort. You can barely see part of it in the video posted by ‘ethanheisler’ elsewhere in these comments.

As I recall, you are pretty correct. Remember, these were the days long before the internet, and peoples’ source of news and gossip literally was via standing around the water cooler at work and shooting the shit with coworkers.

Out here in the late Eighties there were ships that imported engines cut out of cars in Japan. They cost about three hundred bones.

I was a kid of just the right age when Evel attempted the jump. I can’t emphasize how big this was in a kid’s life at the time. Most of my friends had the Evel Knevil toy stunt set. The media hoopla about the jump was huge.

You know, that was the weird part- we’re watching the scene with the Toyota pickup in it just as he is telling me that only AMC vehicles appear in the film.

I have nothing to really add except that I was watching Back to the Future with my country-fried brother -in-law recently, and he offered that the DeLorean was the only cool car that AMC ever made.

While you yell “I am not a number! I am a free man!”

No he isn’t. He’s making stuff up.

And the classic tattoo of a giant anchor with a scroll wrapped around it on his forearm. Bonus points if the lettering within the scrollwork reads “Mother”.

Gases heat up when they are compressed, and gases cool off when they expand. When you puncture a CO2 canister or any other container holding a compressed gas, it expands as it is released into the outside atmosphere. As it expands, it cools off rapidly which cools off the container that it is rushing out from.

That’s not one state, that’s the Federal ADA law. If any sort of pedestrian accomodation is built, then it must be built to full compliance with the law.

Yes. I posted it right here on the internets for everyone and their grandmother to see.

I have been ridiculously ear-to-ear grinning happy with the early-90's Nissan 300ZX convertible I picked up last year.