To be honest, I only got 28 once, on a 600 mile round trip from Cincinnati to Chicago and back. .

Yeah. I could get 28 on the highway, but mixed city/highway was 19-20mpg consistently.

Sadly, I owned one of these. Not the fancy version with those cool aluminum wheels and and that high tech calculator, mine was a trim level below that with the “wire wheel” hubcaps that first introduced me to one of the most hated terms in automotive repair: Special Tool. It also had the fully digital dash. The…

Yes, padded dashboards!

One of my brothers friends got an 85 Daytona Turbo as a high school graduation present. It was such an unreliable piece of crap that he ended up beating the car with a tire iron after it died on him at 2am on the interstate, two days after he got it out of the shop.

“First, kill all the lawyers.”

Damn it Fake News! Just when Florida Man becomes a hero of sorts.

Not surprising, the past few years as my kids have grown I’ve moved from a Malibu, to an Impala and then a Taurus as vacation road trip trip rentals. Last year I needed the space of an SUV because we took our dogs with us. This year I’ll have an extra person with me on vacation and 3 girls, 2 of them teenagers, means…

I’ve seen golf ball sized hail at my house a few times over the last 10 years. I’m grateful that my car was safely in the garage each time.

3 Mile Island.

Did Brats cost $10K new?

My cousin has a 64 Beetle sitting in his moms garage. He’s had it for 35 years. It’s in original, unrestored condition.

My drivers ed car was the Tempo’s sibling, the 1987 Mercury Topaz. My mom had been driving Honda Civics since 83, she was on her 2nd, an 86. The Mercury’s interior was luxurious compared to my moms base Civic DX hatchback, but the rest of the car was just crap compared to the Civic. Squishy brakes, squishy suspension,…

This is nothing more than muckraking. It’s a non-story.

Neutral: Yes, it does. I think a lot of the new technology is dumbing drivers down more and more.

My daughters haven’t done it for a few years, but I still have two Glad odor shield trash bags stuffed into both map pockets in my Saab. I leave a corner poking out, so it’s easy for them to grab if they need it, all they have to do is grab it, open it and spew.

Yeah, it’s supposed to be a small emergence concentrated in 3 or 4 communities in Cincinnati. Hyde Park, parts of Anderson Township(the part I live in) and a couple other north eastern communities.

Yeah, Cicadas are harmless. Fuck wasps. We supposed to have an early hatching of the 17 year cicada in SW Ohio this year.

I know they have a purpose, but years of battling them indoors while growing up has caused an intense hatred of them. Every summer we had wasps in the family room, and only in the family room, of our house. We dealt with it by sucking them up with a shop vac, then spaying Raid into the vacuum. Years later my dad used…

In the late 70's, before we moved out of the suburbs to rural Indiana, we had a nest of ground hornets in our yard. After a couple kids got stung one day, my dad poured kerosene down the entrance to the nest and lit it up.