@piththeelder: Okay, you get points for that one!

The good side of that is that on any given Mass highway, the average speed is about 85 MPH, so you'd really have to be doing some serious speeding to earn yourself a ticket.

@blogsdo: You beat me to that one.

@Foozy Ploosh Room: The whole vehicle screams "tacky" at the top of its lungs, so yeah, the pickup bed is the least of its worries.

@FromaBuick6: Plus I doubt it would work so well on the stopping end, either.

$4 a gallon gas will be back when and if the economy ever recovers, so we all need to enjoy the low fuel bills while we can (and by the looks of things, that might be a couple of years at least).

MBMLR is right....I have no doubt that at the first *hint* of major recovery that oil prices will be right back up over $100 a barrel. Kudos for the insight and for getting COTD!

I thought it was a great movie and I only saw one gratuitous blue penis shot (although frankly, I wasn't looking either).

@PatFromGundo: A hearse is a hearse, of course of course....

The Auto task force test-driving GM's fleet of prototype Volts

As a fan of the sportwagon, I wholeheartedly approve of this!

@A strolling player: No, not really, although it's sucked waaaaaay beyond what I could ever have imagined.

@Mike the Dog: I killed a fair amount of time at The Eagle's Nest. An Eagle would be perfect for me. I could have a cool classic car that would have no problem making it up my long icy, muddy driveway.

When I was 9, the family took a trip from Boston to Philadelphia in one of these. It was a very hot trip (no AC of course) and I remember it not being very comfortable on long trips, even for a 9 year old.

This is the Toyota yang to the yin which is my 1997 GMC Sonoma which has had *everything* replaced and can't go for more than 1 month without breaking something else.

@☠Grяrяrяrяrяrяrя is no longer a division of General Motors: Now I want one!

@Foozy Ploosh Room: He's right..that's too low to the ground to be an Eagle, although AMC did offer "eaglized" versions of the Spirit (the SX/4) Gremlin (Kammaback) and of course, the Concord (Eagle Sedan and Wagon) according to this awesome Eagle website:

@Plecostomus - Thunderbird-brain: If you want a 4X4, get the 1980(?) AMC Eagle (top row, 3rd one over).

Wow, that's a real treasure trove, both because generally speaking, people don't usually amass large collections of malaise cars, and even in rare instances when they do, they're usually not AMC's.

That's it, I'm going to this year's race in Stafford Springs, CT.