The etymologist told me I was an idiot, angry at both being woken up and not even for the right reasons, as I needed to call an entomologist, who studies insects, and not an etymologist who studies words, words like “simpleton” and “don’t ever call me again.”

Probably because Toyota didn’t want to cannibalize sales from the Camry and risk jeopardizing the Camry dropping out of the top 10 cars sold in America.  

My HS crush owned one of these, so sentimental NP.

Are these noise cancelling?

Are these noise cancelling?

My 1988 Cutlass Supreme (GM-10) had the same thing.

I owned several early ‘80s Ford products where you had to press the stalk on the left side of the steering column to sound the horn.

Does this count?

Part of me want the government to put its foot down and make the 40% compliance mandatory, but another part of me remembers the shitty cars we had in the 1970s when the automakers were struggling to meet the new government mandated safety, emission and fuel economy standards.

There was a mild custom ‘73 (i.e. acid green paint, stupid graphics on the hood and the owners initials stitched into the headrests) for sale near me about a year ago, I think I saw the price drop from $25K to $22K and eventually $18.5K (FIRM!) over the course of six months.

Drinking a gallon of Absinthe may explain why he mistook that hideous Opel for a Porsche 928.

Pro tip: If you go to a car show to have people ooh and ahh over your car and to win trophies, at $30K you’re probably going to be disappointed. Unless you stick to local small-town car shows, you are always going to run into someone with a cooler car and an deeper pockets and you’ll wind up hot, bored and pissed off.

1961-66 Thunderbird - Fairly common, straight-forward to work on (except for the convertibles) and highly underappreciated IMO. Watch out for rust though.

I learned to drive on a ‘76 Nova (straight six though, and no fancy padded vinyl top) so I have a soft spot for these cars.

I remember when I first saw a Maserati Ghibli, I think I was about 9 or 10 and was in a Greyhound bus on the PA Turnpike.

Take your damn star.

The police in New Castle DE in the late 80s were too busy busting under aged college kids for drinking Zima and people selling bootleg cigarettes from MD and VA to worry about a little thing like grand theft.

Neighbor of mine owned a Tempo (badge engineered Topaz) for approx. 8 months before it mysteriously disappeared from the parking lot on night.

Car & Driver nick-named this generation Prelude the “Quaalude” because of its tepid performance.

Not my cup of tea.  ND.