Throw a cage in it and it's ready for LeMons. Get some thick-soled boots for the Flintstone Braking System.

Without fail the most annoying thing people do in traffic is to block intersections. We're all on the road at once and if everybody would JUST FUCKING WAIT HIS OR HER TURN we'd get to work much more efficiently. Unfortunately, something about sitting behind the wheel of a car turns nearly every human being into an…

I actually saw one of these on the way to work Friday. I was surprised it still ran, although its fake plastic tree sides were kind of shoddy.

I like the Juke. I didn't want to at first but it's growing on me. They're getting very popular around Charlotte and I like that — especially since every Escape, Rogue, and Mini Countryman sort of just looks like a bubble. This is the car that never really existed but I picked in video games. This is a car that the…

I read all of your posts in R. Lee Ermey's voice. But I guess you intend it to be that way.

Yup. Do they still drive the Lancaster's Barbecue Monte Carlo around town?

Charlotte, NC. It's home to Bank Of America, NASCAR, and the strange trend of million dollar homes right outside of seriously dangerous neighborhoods. Myers Park and Dilworth are less than a mile from Grier Heights, Country Club is right between the scary parts of Midwood and NoDa, and the half-million-dollar condos…

It's the tach. It's sideways so that when the RPM is in the power range (5-7000 RPM) the needle is pointing near-straight up. A lot of race cars have the tach set up like that so that the driver can quickly glance at the gauges and make sure everything is OK. Needles up = all good.

My wife drives an Aquarius Blue VW Bug Convertible. It's a 5-speed. She learned to drive in her dad's 91 Mustang GT. It's a 5-speed and it's sitting behind his house. She has had two automatic cars in her life — the Acura RDX that her rich ex husband bought for her so she would have a "nice" car and the…

I fully concur. I am in a public speaking class and I had to give a ten-minute persuasive speech. I spoke for ten minutes about the need for every driver to know how to shift their own gears. There was a study a few years ago from the University of Virginia with adolescent males with ADHD diagnoses that showed that…

During the summer of 2002, I bought a 1988 Buick Century the exact same color as the one pictured. It had the craptastic "Iron Duke" four cylinder and a 3-speed automatic. I bought it from the Goodwill for $450 because I got a part-time job delivering pizzas and didn't want to kill my nicer cars by driving 75 miles…

Car taxes in South Carolina are a bit more, and since I work off of Carowinds Blvd, I often fill up on Wednesday mornings on the way into work because gas is usually a dime cheaper per gallon. There are plenty of good driving roads within a few hours. I agree that the roads are well kept — cars around here tend to…

Come south. They are still plentiful, although most are donked-out or built up with slicks-n-skinnies

Absolutely! There are still a bunch of the 3rd-gen running around here but the second generation is just gone. I wanted a 96 Escort GT when I bought my 95 Saturn SL1 about 14 years ago.

Every later montero that I've seen has 22-inch wheels, blackout tint, yellowed headlights, and sounds like it's been poorly maintained. It's a shame because they were capable and attractive SUVs

Down south the Corsica is still pretty plentiful. The engine could be fixed with a hammer and you can still pick them up for less than $1500 in decent shape. They may have succumbed to rust up in Canuckistan. Same thing with early Rangers. I am looking for *the right one* and Craigslist has at least 5 in running…

Here you go: [charlotte.craigslist.org]

A friend of mine had a refrigerator-white one. He was 6'1" and about 500 lbs. He was also covered in tattoos.

2001. A friend of mine had to trade hers for a more reliable car with working A/C when she got pregnant. She got a PT cruiser. She had that POS for three years before trading it in on a Scion xB

...And most of those were turned into drag cars in the 80s because they were light, small, cheap, and rear-wheel-drive