Right now I’m more interested in what’s hiding behind that 944. Is that a Mk II Scirocco with a Zender body kit? So cool, so ‘80s. It needs bigger wheels than the stock 13 inchers though.

Copper red mica. The color says that I had a choice of only three colors if I wanted the manual transmission, and that the red one was the only one available for several hundred miles so I took it. I was not going to buy a car with an automatic.

There’s a fried chicken place near me that serves the meal with a squeeze bottle of a homemade buttermilk/honey sauce that is just amazing. Pour it on the biscuits or the chicken - it’s good everywhere. It’s so good I would almost be tempted to drink it straight from the bottle, but then again, I like to drink…

That sandwich sounds great. Kind of like a St. Paul sandwich with a little extra sweetness.

Is this a new variation of fusion cuisine? I like Chinese and I like hash browns, but I never thought of combining the two.

I could see perhaps a bit of jelly if it was just biscuit and sausage, but when you toss the egg in there (I forgot to mention that part), it just seems a bit odd.

There was an article by Caity Weaver that I read on Gawker a couple of years ago about a sorority leader berating her sisters. There was a particular phrase that she used in her missive that I had never heard before, and a phrase that I cannot repeat. A phrase that seems like what would be dished out as punishment at…

On Sunday mornings I usually grab breakfast at McDonalds or Hardee’s whilst out running errands. I order the same thing at both places, namely a sausage biscuit. On numerous occasions I’ve had the cashier ask if I want jelly with that and I have to ponder if they mean for me to put jelly on my sausage biscuit or if…

I recall one wealthy customer at a store I ran back in the’80s that would only buy American. This meant that, even though he could afford better, he always drove Cadillacs. I could see him as a customer for something like this rolling turd based on him sticking to his ideology despite much better alternatives being…

I feel the same way, extending back to even the bug-eyed early versions. I probably wouldn’t exactly enjoy driving it, but as a concept I like it.

I can’t speak for all cars, but my E21 320i didn’t have a limiter. At high-speed the speedometer was just pegged at 85.

I wonder if the answer also explains eastern Wisconsin...

This map helps to partially explain why my transfer from Los Angeles to St Louis wasn’t as weird as I had expected it to be.

People say that my Mazda5 6MT is slow, but it is exactly 0.1 seconds slower in the 0-60 race than an optimal early Ferrari Mondial (8.3 seconds vs. 8.2). One tenth of a second. The time for the Ferrari was from Motor Trend and was one of the faster times; C&D and R&T had it at 9.4 and 9.5 respectively. That’s slower…

Ran when Sparked.

Why the heck not? I was only down by 1.1 liters and 381 HP, and I didn’t have those pesky turbochargers to interfere with the exhaust note. Other than those details they’re almost the same thing, right?

I had a Rabbit GTI whose stock exhaust system would make similar noises. I loved to go through parking garages in first gear with the windows and sunroof open, setting off car alarms on every overrun. My god, that was a sweet sound (the car, not the alarms...)

They should really shrink it down to 2.85 liters. This would be more in keeping with the original goal of building it for Group B. With the equivalency factor mulitplier of 1.4 this would make for the equivalent of a 4 liter NA engine (2.85 x 1.4 = 3.999)

The worst wedding guest? Perhaps not. There was one wedding I attended where it was known that the bride’s family was known for being heavy drinkers, and mean drunks at that. During the reception there was some sort of commotion, with someone loudly asking who has the security guard’s gun. A panicked mass evacuation…

Yeah, I could see how availability might be a problem. I’ve been a little rusty on GTI versions and specials since I got rid of mine back in the ‘80s.