I remember sleeping on the back seat of Pop’s Electra. Just a pillow and a blanket.

Like every Limited Edition Ford or Toyota!

Yes. It was a horrible Caddy. But if you accepted it for what it really was, a rebadged Chevy, it was okay.

I’m like that. I drove a manual for 20 years. But living in Atlanta and commuting around the North 285 way, I would get home with a sore leg. I bought my first automatic there, and life got much easier.

Wasn’t that the opposite of the Neon, though? It was nice when it came out, but they screwed around with it, and cut a few corners, and then suddenly is was junk.

Neutral: They have it all WRONG about the money!

I could live with that. Better than the alternatives.

That’s really pushing the definition.

Attendance is down except for the Landmark races, like Daytona or Talladega. We didn’t even bother going to the Coke 600 the last couple of years, and it’s right down the road.

I lost interest in Gordon when he quit driving the Pepsi car.

I saw the paperwork for becoming a Nelson family once. The scary part is that their qualifications want what I consider some of the least influential people. They want a household that watches over 40 hours a week of TV. That means somebody has to be doing nothing but sitting around almost all the time. People who…

It’s all money nowadays, so it will affect it. Sponsors won’t pay for TV air time for commercials if they don’t think they’re getting watched enough. Heck, in my area, the only real sponsors were Viagra, Cialis, and Coke. That’s not saying much.

NASCAR is losing the older generations, like me, with all the stupid; “all cars must be identical down to the microscopic level” thing.

Bad, but that’s what they do, apparently.

When everything has to be exactly the same, even the tiniest bit helps. Look at all the hoopla about just bending that bit of fender out in front of the rear wheel. At 190 MPH, it changes the aero just enough to make the car more stable.

They were more fun. I was raised at Rockingham. I remember pit crews in jeans and t-shirts.

My favorite is still the fuel line glitch. One of the drivers, and I can’t remember the name off the top of my head, didn’t like the rule that all gas tanks had to be the exact same capacity. Turns out, he read the rules and found they didn’t say anything about the fuel lines.

True. Nothing is ‘stock’ about it any more. And it’s a farce that they even pretend the cars are different by putting brand stickers on the front.

Not ‘mercelessly’, but mercifully. It would be best to just put them (and us) out of their misery.

My Wife wanted a Sebring once. A convertible. You will not get me to buy another one of their cars ever again. It was missing what I had come to expect as basic amenities from GM, even.