My Type3 required that kind of attention with it’s voltage regulator. Sadly since I was driving a then-considered dorky Type3 fastback I had nobody’s dad to impress.

I’ve had a number of pretty cool cars including a VW Type3 fastback, a 69 Mach 1, and an Audi Coupe, but I think the one I regret most is my old 78 VW Scirocco with the Sidewinder package. White with a black stripe down the hood, gold BBS wheels, Hurst shifter, and a heckblende (https://jalopnik.com/this-thing-has-an-a…

Yeah, but think about how cold it is in the winter.  Totally evens out, right?

I had a 69 Mach 1 with no power steering and slow leaks in both front tires. If you don’t know this car, instead of a horn in the center of the steering wheel it had a rubber ring around the inside of the actual steering wheel itself.  Now, imagine parallel parking.  Now imagine it on a college campus with tons of…

Easy: Alloy wheels. Because plastic wheel covers are the velcro shoes of the automotive world

My uncle was the same way, and I could kinda see his point.  One time I made the same no-logo demand and it was such a PITA that I just don’t care anymore. That and the dealership logos got a lot cooler around here

I was both impressed and disappointed in the level of restraint.

If you’re going to have competition, it might as well be you

You win, FARC>bad weather/bad drivers. I question your decisions.

Ha!  I always wondered why my parents wouldn’t let me in the car with Grandpa driving, until the one time he insisted he drive us all somewhere.  We’re on a two lane country highway when he stops in the middle and begins to back up.  He wanted to see what kind of animal it was dead in the road.

Ours were the second set of tracks through a foot of fresh snow climbing up from Ouray, but thankfully in a Subaru Forester.  I was very careful to never break traction (all-weather tires rather than snow tires) and luckily conditions improved the higher we went.  Looking out the window did nothing for my wife’s…

The last time I talked to my dad in person I had no idea just how long he had left. He and Mom had exhausted all treatment options and decided they would just let the cancer take it’s course. That day we’d gone bowling, and once again he’d beat me handily so I was optimistic we’d see each other a couple more times. We…

Colorado Springs->O’Hare->Montreal. 6am flight out of COS. Plane boarded and we sit. Turns out there was an early tempest of a storm in Chicago which screwed up all of their flights. So we are told our connections will be missed and we should deplane and rebook. I’m last in line at the counter and after standing…

Never made a bad car?  Uhhh...Elio?

I’ve finally broken free of my abusive relationship with VW

I’m totally the opposite on the “they all look the same” school of thought because to some extent it’s always been that way. I can kinda pick out a Model T from a group of other cars from the era, but it’s mostly guessing. Back in the ‘50's they all had chrome, tail fins, etc., and from a distance it is hard to tell…

“Well it just goes to show you, it’s always something, you either got a toenail in your hamburger or toilet paper clinging to your shoe.”

I think about $480...for a leased Outback, but with extenuating circumstances. A few years previous my wife and I wanted to explore fire roads in the mountains and bought a used Chevy Tracker...just a couple of years old, barely any miles and reasonably priced, though we still had to finance it. Of course depreciation…

I’ll be in the market in a few months and I keep going back and forth between a Bolt and a Volt. The scenario is I’ll be living in an isolated smallish town, but with a garage where I can easily recharge from most of my driving. Either choice would work, but the trips to the city would require a charge to make it back …