First Gear: This.

Tried watching this on BBC last night and just could not get into it. Seemed like all of the cars looked pretty much the same, except for the paint.

We once had an OTR truck back into our loading dock. They left the motor running and the dog inside. Dog bounced around in there and hit the door lock button. Took an hour to get the damn thing unlocked.

Readm this yesterday, and then today this show up on my news feed.

Came across one of these at the Pioneer Village attraction halfway across Nebraska. Purchased new by the originator of the museum, just as it came off the road. If I could figure out how to download pictures, I would. 

Many years ago, my wife’s Aunt gave us a 1960 Ford Falcon. It was the base model, even still had a manual choke on the dash. At the time, I worked about an hour away and would drive this car back and forth. Fortunately, my most fun route took me through the backroads of Northern Maryland, Baltimore and Carroll…

We used these back in the 70's at Hertz for transport busses at the airport. They were great vehicles, easy to drive and plenty of kick. They pretty much just drove like a big car, rather than a converted truck like most RV’s.

That wind is no joke when you have a high profile vehicle. During my driving days, I saw many other trucks lying on their side after getting hit by side winds (I expect they were empty at the time).

True story. I once had to drive to North Dakota during a blizzard to rescue a truckload of frozen Butterball turkeys from a truck who had dropped more than half of them on the median while attempting to role over. After picking them up, we had to take them to a government facility to have them certified for continued…

As I read this, I thought about the cars that I bought new back in the 70's, and I don’t remember them being little shitcans. The first was an Opel Rallye, which we were forced into because my wife (being pregnant) could no longer get behind the wheel of my TR4. It was a great little car, and had lots of little…

This is funny, simply becasue I am having a no start situation with my ‘89 RX7. During research, I came upon this video. You have to watch it until the end to get the point, but apparently rubber mallets rule!!

I think I miss the floor vents more than the window vents. I have a set of aftermarket floor vents to install in my TR8 at some point. On a hot day, opening the floor vents and zipping out the rear window will make the car comfortable to drive. Who needs AC?

I remember my Mother in Law taking one of these courses and also remember how driving with her became pure hell from that point on. I believe it was an AARP sponsored course, and is probably the reasaon that I refuse to join AARP to this day.

I have to say that yours is the first thing I look for on Jalopnik every morning. It’s pretty much all downhill form there. 

Down here in Florida, the orange trucks are unloaded by simply lifting the front of the entire truck, tractor and all, almost 90 degrees straight up. I have seen this same technique used at cardboard recycling plants, also. The first time you see this, an 80' truck sticking straight up into the air, it’s not something…

Way back when I had a Ford Probe, the struts gave it up. On the market at that time was a spring loaded thing that clipped on to the strut and when it was opened, the thing would snap out and brace the base of the strut, keeping the thing from falling on your head. When you wanted to lower the lid, you simply raised…

In our house, it’s a cat ting. You simply cannot leave a piece of any kind of cloth on the floor for any length of time before one of the cats decides they HAVE to pee on it. Tree  skirts? Forget about it. A small are rug at the door on rainy days? Nope. And cat pee smells 1000 times worse than dog pee. 

In our house, it’s a cat ting. You simply cannot leave a piece of any kind of cloth on the floor for any length of…

After reading the article, along with several of the comments, I find that I have no opinion on this matter at all. However, I just wanted to say that Jason writes some of the most interesting and funny shit on Jalopnik.

This has been my “thing” about SUV’s in general since they started taking market share. There’s really no room in the damn things to carry any luggage. The whole design is pretty damn stupid, as far as I’m concerned.

Wait. LUV is dumb but SUV is okay? A lot of vehicles have been called crazier things (Subaru BRAT, anyone?).