Leonard part 6?

Back in the early ‘90's I’d saved just enough money to take a long weekend solo to Moab. I had enough for gas and maybe a couple of meals...that was it. Nothing more. No contingency money. I had just stopped for gas and paid the highest price I’d ever seen, driving across the Utah desert when a dashboard light came…

I HATE HATE HATE having to sit there in the driving lane, or miss my light because some dumbass in the turning lane (where I want to be) has left a huge gap between himself and the car in front. Get closer! He’s not going to shoot spikes out the back of his car.

Here’s my impression of a Harley rider BEFORE they invented the motorcycle: “HEY! HEY! LOOK AT ME! LOOK! HEY! ME! LOOK AT ME!!”

its more about having to show extra attention to people in big cars, like they deserve it or something.

Am I the only one who’s noticed they’re not making parking spots any bigger?

I used to have a ‘69 Mach 1. One night while filling it up a Highway Patrol car pulled up to fill up their Camaro. One of the officers (there were two) asked me about my car...I couldn’t tell if he was leading me into saying something I shouldn’t OR if he wanted to race. I think he wanted to race. He asked what I’ve…

I found my friends to be less interesting after I quit drinking.

You forgot the 2 million dollars part. I’m with you, brother.

My trouble is my 7 mile commute with back roads and no traffic, where my GTI gets 30+MPG. And longer trips we take my wife’s Forester for the luggage space/AWD for the ski trips, so I’m holding out for Volt technology in an AWD SUV. Ugh...did I just say that out loud?!

My mom did pretty well. My dad taught me what clutch smells like.

I really want a Volt, but I’m hesitant because I don’t want to give up my manual. I swore I would never again drive an automatic after a history of underpowered 4-bangers with auto transmissions, but I’m learning that with enough torque and more gears I don’t hate driving them. But still...

I was reading car magazines long before I could drive, so the plan all along was to buy a manual. The car salesman taught me to drive it on the test drive of the VW Type3 fastback (I bought it). And once I was up to speed with driving it, I taught both of my parents to drive stick.

Don’t go upscale on me, Lada! Its not a Lada unless it has stamped steel wheels

The more I read, the more I like. Like finding out the cheap vanilla ice milk you just bought is really cheap FRENCH vanilla ice milk.

This solves the biggest problem with rear-engined cars: The flame stickers can now go on the FRONT of the car

I had a friend who showed me a fun trick...she picked up the far end of the gas station hose and blew into it, triggering the bell. She kept doing it until we got chased away by the grease monkeys. A lot of disgusting effort for a quick laugh, but it wasn’t my mouth.

I’ve been a car guy my entire life and I’m still amazed that with so many thousands of moving parts in an engine, the default is it works.

A Corolla GTI? Sort of? Hmmmm....I’m listening...

The Impreza even more so. Mountain passes mean WFO in third or knocking in fourth.