The pride of my tool set:

Please define “exhibitionist” and then re-ask yourself the question.

Thank you for adding in $20 per gallon gas at the tail end of your rant.

The smog test place plugged an OBDII dongle into my wife’s 2006 car the other day for smog check. No rollers, nothing else that I saw. Charged me $50 for it too! Aside from an annoyance fee, not a big deal, despite people on screens and in comments out of state convinced that the Golden State is a living hell, which…

Destination: whine country

-Or the mid-engine Corvette, when a significant percentage of the population howled about cultural violation of the natural order of front-engine for Corvette.

Focus groups, apparently?

I talked to someone from Honda motorcycles awhile ago who commented that Honda got into serious design trouble in the 1990's/2000's repeatedly for asking people what they wanted, and then giving people what they said they wanted, which resulted in sales flops that the marketplace rejected.

Everything can be financed. Let’s start with financing your funeral first, shall we? You know you’re going to need one at some point...

technically, no. Rockford Files is J-turn for me, which is its own delight.

Old cars had single circuit master cylinders until the mid-late 1960's. ALL cars have dual circuit now - one loop of hydraulic fluid pipes for the front, a different, totally separate one for the rear, in case one fails.

“Lube Chassis” - most cars 50 years ago needed grease manually injected into suspension pivot points using a grease gun. This was done every 15,000 miles or whatever while a car was on a lift at the corner gas station (remember when all gas stations had an attached garage with mechanics instead of a convenience…

87.9% of the wealth is controlled by 20% of the population.

If you buy this car, fix it up, and show it, you can feel confident that there won’t be some “marque expert” who shows up and nitpicks everything in front of the judges.

For how glaringly obvious Uhaul truck livery is, it would be impossible to miss them when broken down and stopped, and frankly, I can’t recall seeing one, though I must have at some point.

Jeep Crushed Jeep, David Tracy Crushed.

If you’re doing renders of hypothetical cars and are an illustrator/stylist, I’ll give you a pass.

Just remember: despite a murderous accent, they did actually invent the language, or were subjugated by those who did, depending on who you ask.