I wasn’t allowed to ride with my grandparents and never understood why. Then one day grandpa HAD to drive for some reason, and then I learned. On a two lane country highway he comes to a dead stop, then starts backing up to see what kind of roadkill that was we just passed.

Sounds like you’re describing something we came across while mountain biking one year. The ride out this loooong dirt road, nothing unusual. The ride back...debris field leading to a car with doors and trunk open. Nobody wanted to go look for dead bodies, but I couldn’t just ride away so I did. Nothing...not even…

The R5 Turbo seemed too...I don’t know, supercar-ish to be included in this list. But yeah...that and the original Quattro (and likely a Morgan) would be in my garage if I was super duper rich.

Renault 5/Le Car. Completely irrational choice, especially since I test drove one back in the day. The shift lever got buried into the passenger seat cushion in fourth gear, there was a bit of smoke coming from the engine bay, and it died during the test drive and I had to be rescued by the dealership. And yet at the…

Back in high school my best friend mentioned he was thinking about replacing his Pinto Wagon (that his dad swapped in a manual to replace a dying automatic) for a Saab. This being pre-internet, Sunday mornings were spent car shopping in the classified section of the newspaper, and I found an affordable Saab on a used…

There’s a word for gluing back together an Italian car.  That word is “Upgrade”.

Ten years ago, maybe.  But my child is now an adult and no longer wants a fort.

I’ve always felt HD has two main demographics: People who are lawyers who don’t want to look like lawyers, and people who aren’t lawyers who want to look like lawyers.

easier to get in with that skirt/jacket ensemble?

I’m still trying to understand the sales pitch...”hassle cops, it’ll be worth it”

Rude? I dunno, but I do get frustrated and use harsh language. In my defense three red lights in a row, each 600' apart?  Every f-ing day?!

The one about car-tag reminded me of the time we had a college class trip to some manufacturing place, and since no school busses in college, we carpooled. At the end of the tour they had a bunch of giveaway items...pens, magnets, etc. I remember we took all of the magnets, and were tossing them out the car windows…

Norelco

I used to drive an old pickup that was built in the Pleistocene, before antilock brakes.  I learned that while a horn can convey to another driver that they’ve done something idiotic, skidding tires are soooo much more effective in this capacity.  

I once paid a lawyer to contest a ticket but never have I done it myself. A friend did though, he was clocked 15 over or something and when he asked to see the radar gun the cop told him he’d already cleared it. He decided to contest it. The day he was pulled over it was absolutely frigid...like 15 below. His defense…

I was in my early ‘20's, living in Kansas City in an apartment that didn’t have covered parking. I had a car and a motorcycle, but I kept the motorcycle in my parents’ garage off in a suburb, and would head over to ride it when I could. The first nice day of spring I headed over there to get it cleaned up for the…

I’ve been traveling 70+ on a perfectly clear road, only to crest a hill and find the other side has sheet ice from the wind blowing snow across the road and previous cars squeezing it into ice.  I’ve since learned that winter preparedness means (among other things) bringing a change of pants.

The worst since Reagan Bran!