My Dad always calls them portholes. I knew they corresponded with the displacement though because that’s what he always said.

I always comment on articles like this with the same story, but here goes:

Plan:

I completely forgot about that MNF intro but as soon as I hit play, it all came flooding back. And I wasn’t even football-obsessed until my teens (early ‘00s) but this was still deep in my memory.

This is common out in the country where my in-laws live, especially in the winter. The feral barn cats will go in there. In fact, my wife’s uncle had four of five kittens hanging out in the engine bay of his spare car earlier this summer and he actually didn’t drive the car for a couple of weeks.

A highlight of the boring-ass drive from Chicago to St. Louis, especially that stretch from Springfield to St. Louis, is driving past there and seeing what was out front.

Gulf War I/Desert Storm. I remember watching it on the news and I remember my brother and I playing with the plastic army guys and he always making me be the tan “Iraqis.” I was age 3-4 during that whole thing and my brother would have been 4-5.

Jalopnik from the future:

“I brought my barn-find stock 2000 XJ to Moab and embarrassed lifted XJs”

The only fake Time cover I’ve ever cared about.

With the brothers driving them?!

“I get to chose that the Sandy Hook shooting didn’t happen because Adam Lanza looked like a nice kid,” - Alex Jones.

I would think the Cars and Coffee at the Monaco Casino Square would be the most wealthy car show in the world but this looks like a pretty good frontrunner.

The best is that Hollingsworth kicks right as Murphy says “He moved his arms and legs today.”

Why there is an armored and bulletproof Lexus LX570 10 miles from my house is beyond me, but it’s the most expensive.

This man continues to embarrass our alma mater. If he’s not writing guest op-eds at his lost chance at a Pulitizer, he’s having terrible takes about real issues that are affecting real, actual people.

Never saw a Faces of Death, just the mystique of it, a little before my time I guess. For me though, being the first internet generation, it was Rotten.com. I don’t know if anyone else out there remembers that one but that was my innocence lost.

I would theorize that being anonymous on the road further leads to road rage. I think people tend to think that they are different and entitled when they are surrounded by the other normal-colored anonymous vehicles. “These aren’t people, they are other drivers, other cars, soulless, empty things moving about that are…

Even if they were actually real people, they find people who haven’t been in a car made since 2000. The things they marvel at “WOW YOU CAN PLUG YOUR PHONE IN?! ALL-WHEEL-DRIVE?! WWWOWOOWWOOWOW!!”

Bwoah!

This is what happens when your news organization does not have a car person inside it. I don’t know how many times I’ve debunked or set straight a car-related fact inside the newsrooms I’ve worked in. Calling one guy who owns an ‘05 350Z and considers himself a “car collector” is not a valid source or a “car expert.”