That is one gorgeous car.

VW Type 3 fastback. I patched the floor with a garbage can lid, cut a hole in the dash to wire in a fan from a hair dryer so I didn’t have to scrape the inside of the windshield as I drove in winter. I went through voltage regulators like Q-tips, and girls wouldn’t be caught dead in it. But on a wet road you could…

Supposed to happen by 2062, based on Hanna Barbera predictions

I’ve been cycling for thirty years now, and occasionally this sort of thing happens because there are a handful of worthless humans that just like to fuck with people because they can. I’ve been lucky enough to avoid (or run away, depending on perspective) this sort of thing, but nearly everyone I know has some sort…

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Eh. This one has a turbo.

This deal cost us more money, there’s no question about that. My wife and I grew up in somewhat poor families where having a new car just wasn’t an option. We continued driving clunkers until our daughter was born, and then suddenly safety and reliability (two elements of car ownership we’d never really experienced)…

We had planned to buy our Forester when the lease expired. We knew the history, we liked the car, and it would have been cheap compared to buying the exact same vehicle elsewhere. The trouble is when the sales guy put the numbers in front of us the financing jacked the payments beyond what we could afford. I know I…

Growing up in the ‘70's meant you were either a “Ford family” or a “Chevy family”. We were an AMC family. :-\

As a lover of all things (ok, MOST) Audi/wagon/’80's/German I was NP all the way until I read FWD (well, maybe...) and then automatic. Oh. Well. You know how if a repair costs more that the vehicle is worth an insurance company considers it “totaled”? An oil change and belts puts this car into that category, and…

But will it cross Antarctica? HINT.

Except for all of the glaring negatives, this is the perfect vehicle.

I got into bicycles, because bicycle$<motorcycle$<car$ (though found that “cheaper” does not equate to “cheap”. Now that I’m a grown-up we went a different route than old British 2-seat and got a reaaaaaally nice 1990 Econoline camper van. Difficult to work on because the hood is the size of a lunchbox lid, but…

I remember in high school a friend knew of a TR7 for sale. It had electrical issues, but the seller only wanted $400. My dad said “No. Never”. I’ve respected his decision for over 30 years now.

Mercur XR4Ti is the only acceptable anwer

I miss my Scirocco! I can still smell that car in my mind...what was that smell? Scirocaca? But I looked just as cool it in my Scirocorduroys

For some reason companies think they need to “upscale” a product, when in reality they need to “downscale”. What I mean is this: when I was a poor college student I needed a car to get from work to school, to home. What I got was a Jetta because it was the nicest car I could afford. Now that I’m employed and…

Maybe a little, but other things are less. I don’t need AC in my house, plus there aren’t many good restaurants or concerts so I save money by going into the mountains instead.

Don’t tell anyone, but Colorado Springs has a cost of living similar to Kansas City.

I lived in KC for a long time, enduring 100 degree heat with 100% humidity in the summer, and 33 degrees and pouring rain all winter. When the stars aligned and I moved to Colorado I was a bit shocked at how easy it was to leave all that behind. Oh, and I have a neighbor who visits KC all the time...he brings me BBQ…

I call them all “Cars” because I don’t know where one term ends and the other begins. Isn’t a crossover is just a hatchback? Isn’t a hatchback is just a small wagon? Did the “CUV” turn into a “Crossover”? I TRY to keep up, I really do!