So, here’s a story about a couple of car guys, and a third joining in. We hearing a great story that starts before any of their political careers, and is about a cherry heirloom car ... period. On. CAR website ... also, period.

It’s the rear window, or if you wish it the other way, the’rear area of reduced pressure shield’.

Actually, the only Corvette I jones for is the C-1 with a Blue Flame six, but the C-3 is an OK substitute. Dedpite all the caveats, it’s a decent looking cruising roadster for the price of a used Hyundae. If it was in Hawaii, I’d buy it.

It’s even worse when you find this stuff in you airplane’s guts, not uncommon in rural grass-strip areas.

Maybe I saw custom job, I did live in SoCal in the surf craze days. Mine was painted OD overall, with ‘PIECE CORPS’ stenciled on the doors and tailgate.

When the first post-war Willys wagons cane out the bodies were stamped to look like the rest of thw wagons of the day, all ‘woodies’. The entry levels were painted body color, higher trim was painted (very realitically) to look like maple and dark mahogony, like all the other station wagons.

Clarification; the Europe trip was ‘69, the bug was ‘58 (IIRC)

Bought a small window/sun roof beetle in Germany (1969). Before shipping it to the east coast I had a VW dealer do a full tune-up, including valve adjustment.

I just saw one two days ago, parked in the breakdown lane of WA3 with no one around and the flashers on.

“Are you all right”? “Yeah, sure”. Ubtil he finds out that his insurance claim is denied.

At least it was a straight-tail. West Yellowstone isn’t a remote strip, the town even has a Cine-Max.

Not just Subarus. We were fly camping at the west Yellowstone airport campground, and were VERY careful to not leave anything that even faintly smelled like food in our airplane. A week or so before a Beechcraft Bonanza owner, not so much. A bear literally tore the airplane in half behind the cockpit to get to a…

Living in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii, I like it. We have the most expensive electricity in the nation, $0.475 / KwH. Affording an electric is one thing, powering it quite another. If we could wrap everything into a single package it might become workable. Oh, did I mention that our power company managed to get…

Destruction derby. I’ve killed a couple of free cars in the glorious mayhem that caps most of the county fairs in mid-America. It’ll cost you a couple of hundred bucks to set on up right, but I always found a sponsor to cover that. I can’t imagine a more joyus way to rid the world of a useless automobile.

On a car like that pseudo-Jeep no way. On true hot rods yes ... Oh, tow trucks too.

WOW, the only one I participated in was eight or nine of us running around in the NJ Pine Barrens, and I had driven from Whitefish, Montana.

My daughter has a Flex, and every time I’m around it I want to do this.

Please Mr. Wizard of all things over-the-edge of tech, please sell me a skateboard and just enough else to make a drivable naked car. I, and I suspect thousands more, will create our own cars.

My Dad’s last posting was at March AFB, Riverside, CA. B-47s (as well as some hoary old B-29s that Dad flew) were still on the line. I loved watching these beautiful airplanes in the sky.

This last fall I spent six weeks in Australia. Daily I lamented that we in America are being screwed by the automobile industry. The Aussiea do, and have done, enjoy a smorgasbord of wonderful utility vehicles A.k.a. Utes. Here’s just one example, sitting on the side of the road for sale for a mere $1,500.00 AUS…