Volkswagen Beetle to appreciate driving a slow car fast. A cheap car with a high level of fit and finish. Drive it for the physical sensation of manual controls and the unique VW interior scent of oil, gas, rubber and metal.

I agree with you. F you Dieter and Daimler. The first generation Intrepid with the flat roof and thin C-pillars had no blind spots. This is such a rare and under-appreciated feature that most folks don’t know they are missing. Also it was roomy with the almost flat floor and very comfortable for long-legged people…

Cars and truck are too big too heavy too powerful and too expensive. There should be limitations on size weight power and cost. Buyer’s are lured into buying vehicles that exceed their real needs and purchase equipment that they don’t need for more money than they can afford. We have devoted absurd amounts of…

Ten years ago I bought a 1993 Chevy K1500 with 125k miles on it and running an L05 350 rated at 210 HP at 9:1 compression using TB injection and runs fine on 87 octane. Also automatic transmission. For the first 8 years it got around 10-11 MPG mostly around town. In 10 years I’ve added 20K miles. I recently gave it a…

The nice thing about lighter weight vehicles is they do less damage to themselves and other things when you run into something, launch them off curbs or jam them into potholes. A 2200 lb Corolla made of intricately folded sheet metal is a stronger item than a 6600 lb battery powered monstrosity with  a brittle…

You meant Thermites.

The towing concession in San Francisco has always been vipers nest of corruption. Before Specialty towing there was City Tow which practiced the same sleazy shake down scams. The problem starts higher up with how the city puts contract services out to bid and then has weak oversight. The city administrators probably…

Just happened in San Jose a couple month’s ago. Black college kid disarmed a robber at a restaurant only to be shot by a cop arriving on the scene that was forewarned that the robber had been disarmed yet shot the kid despite everyone yelling he was not the robber.

Why play such shitty music underneath the real music of a 5 rotor wankel? What is wrong with those people? As for Mike’s Mazda and it’s hard to make a comparison of recorded mechanical violence to that of a live event BUT the loudest little racing car I ever heard was the 1958 Vanwall 5/11 with a four-cylinder in-line…

Makes me think of the extra wet Jheri Curl haircut that Samuel L. Jackson wore as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction.

Another thought, the bears might have ergot poisoning. Ergot fungus grows on spoiled grain and has psychoactive properties. There is nothing more dangerous than a Grizzly bear in the depths of an ergot binge.

How about not leaking grain on the tracks? Obviously they leak grain on the entire route. How many tons are they losing every shipment? Is this too hard to fix? The railroad hauls all kinds of hazardous cargo. Are they dribbling vinyl chloride or anhydrous ammonia all along the way. Kicking the can down the road is a…

Narcissists crack up when they are forced to face the truth about themselves.

Where do you live? I’ve never heard of being sent a tax bill for a car I already own, unless you are being obtuse describing yearly registration renewal?

Don’t forget the added confusion from Ford redesigning their parts department organization which meant superceeding all old part numbers with new numbers. This meant you had to translate old part numbers through one and sometimes 2 editions of updates. I seem to remember one changeover came around 1965 and another…

I was going to recomend the J.C. Whitney catalog. They do mail-order!

That’s Hospital curve on southbound hiway 101 in San Francisco. I was once stopped there on the northbound side in evening rush hour traffic. The southbound side was moving at the limit and as I watched from my motionless Oldsmobile a roof hatch on a southbound Muni bus blew off, flew 80 feet in the air and…

That’s a built in feature only available to the lien holder if you miss a payment.

How lame, no respect for the classic wagons that that defined and evolved the idea of what a station wagon could and should be? Hauling a bunch of people and provisions. Taking families on long distance vacations and ski trips? Pulling boats and trailers? Running Boy Scouts to Jamborees, Little league teams to…