This is a car I truly love, and I haven’t seen one at all in probably a decade. But if I saw my favorite dish on a menu priced 4X higher than my mental “maximum reasonable price” I sure as hell wouldn’t order it.

White pants and red socks.

I had this realization one time listening to a different JC song, “I’ve Been Everywhere”, where the line goes: “Tocapillo, Baranquilla, and Perdilla, I’m a killer”...is this a song about a serial killer?

I went to college in a fairly small town where it was common to park on residential streets. I’d parked my car about a week previous and when I finally needed to drive it again it was gone; in the time that had passed since I parked they started road construction. There were signs posted that had a phone number, so I…

The affordable one-car-for-every-occasion car

The first time I saw the new Camry tail lights I thought it was a dry-rotted wiper blade (tail lights don’t have wipers) or a piece of bad trim that had fallen off.  

Thinking the same thing. Like he would have been a lot more comfortable doing this in a Corolla. 

The first automotive recall in US history was due to Henry Ford stuffing the Model T seats with Spanish moss.

The Crown showed some gorgeous high-end British cars from the ‘40's through the ‘80's.  Lots of reasons to enjoy the show, but for me it was the cars.

Back in the day when I consumed everything WRC, I thought the coolest car anyone could possibly drive would be a small hatchback with 4wd and a smidge of ground clearance.  Now they’re for grandmas?

“Dogs should not drive”

My French Canadian wife turned me on to this guy, who became an immediate favorite. This song embraces the vibe, though the lyrics are more about freedom via bicycle. I’d met some friends in the mountains for a weekend, but caught a nasty bug and had to leave early. On the way home this song came on, driving through…

My heat only worked in the summer

Theme here.  I had a 73 fastback, which I would dearly love to drive just one more time, just to remind me not to own one again.  The back seat floorboard was rusted so bad it took an entire garbage can lid to patch, and I went through voltage regulators like most people go through M&M’s.  But, man that car could…

Those were so much fun to drive, too.  You chose your mom well

We had a manual option on the simulators, but it was 3-on-the-tree and affected basically nothing, and no way to opt for a manual for real driving.  I learned to drive stick from the car dealer on the test drive of my first car (‘73 VW Type3 fastback)

Yes!  

I really wanted to teach my daughter to drive a manual, but she literally had trouble knowing how far to turn, then straighten the steering wheel and I’m pretty sure adding in a clutch and gear lever would have destroyed her.  I taught her a year or so AFTER she got her license and I’m happy to report she’s a great…

Driving south from Ouray Colorado is Hwy 550, known as the “Million Dollar Highway”. Red Mountain Pass. This road is famous for its lack of guardrails and steep drops, and leading up to this trip all I knew about the road was that you shouldn’t drive it in fresh snow. My familiarity came mostly from reading about it…