I wen to the local Plymouth dealership, they’re fresh out of Valiant’s due to chip shortage.

“It felt almost new, which is absurd thing to say given the car’s age and price.”

Gets my vote for greatest production car engine ever. For more about the slant checkout Uncle Tony’s Garage, the man is a living encyclopedia of anything slant six.

It almost would have been better if he hadn’t found that—for the readers, anyway. Then he would have MacGuyvered something using the junk laying around in a bank parking lot.

I’ll admit some smugness by association for how it was a Sixties Mopar that got you there and back with no muss, no fuss.

Lolz, not sure why I wrote that. I’ve marveled at the beautiful torsion bars on multiple occasions. 

David was being followed by the Ghost of Slant Six Afficionados Past.

Your Valiant doesn’t have coil springs up front.

Yeah, wouldn’t have been a big deal. Just needed something to hold the shoe against the backing plate.

So are we all going to ignore that David would have been pretty much dead in the water if he hadn’t magically found the exact brake spring he needed in the glovebox?

“M*A*S*H* is the story of a man who’s constantly depressed because he saw a chicken die on a bus this one time”.
-Sammy B

I’m having a standalone day today. Nothing I do today is going to be canon going forward. Gonna get weird!

You keep leaning into the idea that the show was supposed to offer standalone stories, even though the ENTIRE PREMISE is that it’s riffing on movies we’ve already seen.

I was once a young man in high school with college aspirations.

I think we need - nay, deserve! - some sort of collaboration between Mercedes & David. I don’t care if it’s a wacky roadtrip involving absurd vehicles, a relay of shitboxes from place to place (maybe some horse-trading involved), or an insane wrench-fest with an unreasonable, arbitrarily-imposed deadline/goal.

David Tracy would have it running in a couple hours with a can of starter fluid and some pliers

To paraphrase Cat Stevens (ahem, Yusuf, with repsect)

Not going to lie this article had a beater vehicle and an abandoned vehicle. I thought it was going to be written by David Tracy.

I recently took a junker of a $900 minivan on a road trip through Tennessee.

I agree, but there are a lot of people out there who want to make a quick buck, regardless of how much damage they do. It isn’t unusual to hear about people trying to steal copper wire not knowing it’s live, and getting electrocuted. Similarly, not unusual to hear about hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage for…