While I understand the sentiment, that was 30 years ago. When this car came out, I doubt you'd question antique tags on a MY 1960 car, no matter how pedestrian it was.

It was $10-15 to list these in Autotrader which was less than most classifieds, you got more words *and* a picture which you didnt get in the paper without spending over a hundred bucks.

I wonder what electrification is going to do to the 4-door, long-bed, 22-inch dually, King Ranch, coal-rolling excess that is the modern pickup. Especially when Ford says an electric F-150 is already good for a million pounds. 

My theory is that most of the billy big mouth bass designs have an underlying tie to pedestrian safety. The trend started in Europe where pedestrian deaths are a big deal and big old grilles are less damaging to errant lemmings than enclosed fascias with hidden steel reinforcements. The trend started as a necessity in…

MSRP on that will be over 100K. I am clearly going to have an “OK boomer” moment right now, even though I am not quite a boomer (born in ‘67 - turned 52 last week).

The J.D. Powerhammer awards are in the bag!

The front looks too small or something on that thing. They should just overcab it:

Ugh, this shit drives me nuts. Why do people feel like the law shouldn’t apply because it conflicts with their feelings or emotions?.

There’s at least one Contour on the roads still, and it’s being driven by whichever Door Dash driver delivered my Popeye’s chicken last month.

I’m glad he pulled over. It’s very dangerous to have a high speed chaise in an area with so many pedestrians. 

My favorite brake pad story: A couple friends and I joined another team for a 24 Hours of LeMons race at Sears Point - the car was a mostly stock E30 and of course the car wasnt ready when it arrived at the track. We put on a premium grade pad all the way around from a local chain that ends in “zone” on the car. At…

I’ll bite.. as a heavy travaller, while I can’t (and won’t speak for EVERYONE on the plane, I can give some reasonable answers to this):

Totally agreed. I remember saving up a long time for it too and being SO disappointed.

This totally explains my favorite Activision game as well. Freeway!

Because of the strength with which they hit the phosphor tube at the sprite’s original location, its “glow” would last well into the next frame, and so when it got painted in its “new” location, you’d have the same sprite showing at two difference places in a single frame.

That’s actually a program for the Apple II I wrote when I was like 15 or so I still have. It loads a bunch of static full-screen images into memory and flips between them at random or via keyboard control.

You sound like a legitimate badass.

I have to say, I developed a HUGE amount of respect for these early Atari devs in my senior year of college. My CS final project was to help add CRT-style artifacts into the 2600 Emulator Stella. Since we wanted to do this right, and not just fake up a pretty fragment/vertex shader combo, we went looking at how other…

I had this game. Activision titles were often much better than the Atari options.

Speaking for myself, having purchased a new Tesla, I can confidently say that the process of buying a Tesla directly from the manufacturer is one of the car’s worst features.