So you are admitting you know less about the ring than Musk and somehow that shows badly on his end?

You get a star for the shirt alone.

I LOVED car talk. I actually cried when Tom died. It was hard to listen to the show after that, but I miss it so much.

This photo is a highlight of my trip to Boston a few years ago.

I never really “got” Car Talk as a kid, much to the surprise of the adults in my life. I was a little car nut from Massachusetts, after all. And my dad loved it. But this story closes a lot of loops for me.

Ah yes, the Lloyd Christmas method of cash management.

this is good kinja

yes

Are you a Sweden.

Are you a cop

Hey that’s where I kept my weed, because

• Forgot your wallet on a quick trip to the store.

Yeah, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say they won’t stop racing Indycars at Indy. Ever.

Plenty, but they’re all in Swedish.

This will decimate all, after, you put about fifteen grand in it or more. If we have to, overnight parts from Japan Germany.

We need a new genre of car reviews.  Will it perp?

Straight lines are for fast cars. Turns are for fast drivers.

I’ve got a few and I’m sure there’s plenty more I don’t remember in nearly a million miles.
1983 Subaru GL sedan (fwd). Turned into a fast onramp onto I95N in from Rte 1 in MA to find a patch of spilled sand at the worst time. Back comes out, I turn in and gas it, but still tag the guardrail with the rear quarter,…

Got my license as 16, the oldest kid, so I got the driving duties. That included me behind the wheel from Iowa to Arkansas with the old man scouting cities to relocate to. (He had had it with Iowa winters.) It was a Chrysler Newport boat—5000 pounds steel that floated along on its mush suspension. Mom was way over at…

But, he ain't got...nobody...to listen

You could just have written about the confrontation but at the end you took things further and peppered in some practical advice on how to modify the vehicle to prevent this. The extra effort you put in is noticed and appreciated.