Maybe they renamed it for the US market. That colour was EVERYWHERE for a while, and it came from an unlikely source: Volvo! The first gen C70 to be exact. love that American's will put the Holden badges back on. Back home (NZ, but it happens in Oz too) every bogan (kinda like a redneck) with a V8 Holden replaces…

They got S.C.M.O.D.S.

Fun Fact: That colour, Tiger Orange Mica, was custom mixed for the VT Commodore SS that Wheels magazine took to the USA in (I think) the August 1998 edition. It was so popular that Holden made it the hero colour for the VT series II. Another Fun Fact: When that cars VIN was entered into a GM database at a Buick…

I hate Illinois Nazis.

1974 Dodge Monaco. It's got a cop motor: a 440 cubic inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. Also, its watched over by Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration.

I'm gonna go S-chassis Nissan. At home they are the most stolen vehicle in the country (or they were a couple of years back, anyway), so there was a good chance they were hot. Failing that, there was always a better than average chance the owner enjoyed going sideways, and the obligatory modifications may not have…

Should be. Aren't. On their own, the Japanese parts are fine, but when assembled by disenfranchised workers in Thatcher's Britain [sidenote: 10 million fucking quid on a funeral for the most hated woman in the country, all the while slashing benefits and privatising the NHS!!!] bits tend to fall apart.

Cavaet: I am happy for a car to be as tempremental as it likes, provided its beautiful and/or Italian. Kinda like women. This is slightly odd-looking and (mostly)British.

I sincerely hope that there is someone out there dedicated (and insane) enough to buy this and maintain it for future generations, but that person is not me. I'd need a "luxury" car to be capable of long distances in comfort and style, not be limited to the call-out area of the nearest garage with a tow-truck. CP.

When we were about 16, I was helping a mate clean out his car (irrelevant, but JDM 1994 Mitsubishi Mirage Turbo Diesel sedan. Rare, but also awful). He had acquired it from his (much) older brother about 10 months prior. He went to replace the bulb on the interior light, which had never worked, and on removing the…

Or the "stragglers" on the Japanese islands who kept fighting for the Empreror till the 70s because they had no idea the war was over. Fight on, proud warrior! Fight on!

I like the idea of "mild weather testing". Like there's one crazed R&D guy in there, reporting feverishly back to an HQ with no one home.

Who has an ornithologist? I study my own birds!

My mother's MX-5 (NA6, if you must know) was stolen from her driveway, only to be found a couple of days later by the police, completely written off. It seems the scrotes that took it had no idea how to drive it and stacked it into a ditch, but not before destroying the interior (for know discernible reason) and…

Agreed. Case in point: Commodore Coupe 60.

Apparently, Giorgetto Giugiaro, when presented with the TR7, spent 10 minutes looking at it, then walked around the car and proclaimed "Oh no! They've done it on this side too!". CP.

The Invisible Ute! This was really just a way to sell 4 tyres, but it was brilliant. The questions were the best bit. Here's a wayback machine cache of the original ad. Well worth a read. Invisible Ute!

Also, the Batman is my spiritual leader.

Read my first comment. I explained what the names meant.

This is futile. I'm out.