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    When I got my most recent RX7 FC I bought a Haynes manual for it. What a piece of crap. Blurry printing, lousy pictures and a lot of stuff just plain WRONG!

    Pontiac Aztek. Vilified for years, this design has proven itself to be way ahead of its time. Many Crossovers on the road now owe their basic styling to the Aztek.

    It seems to me that I remember part of the tire problem was that people were not checking their tire pressures and were running with underinflated tires. Soon after this, the Feds mandated in car tire monitoring, if I recall.

    Around here, the price of gas jumped almost 20 cents a gallon when Biden won the election.

    Wow! That was brutal! But, I’ve got to admit they made some very good points. I don’t know what Ford was thinking about when they decided to introduce what had previously been called a Torino Elite as the “new” T Bird. As we know, the T Bird has never really recovered from this. 

    Having spent several years as a Car Jockey at Towson Ford and then as night manager at Hertz/BWI Airport, I have driven just about every high end car out there.

    Wrong, wrong, wrong. Torch - jeez, guy, you are sentencing this guy to an eternity of sitting on the side of the road. A Sprite is a great little car, but it cannot be a daily driver.

    So, I have a salt water pool. Wonder if that would make a difference. 

    Two years ago we had a guy move into our HOA that was a “retired” policeman from Michigan. He got really loud and decided that he wanted to take over the community.

    Well, yes. Three years ago I bought a 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland Hemi Tailhawk which had 245,000 on the clock. Well maintained and beautiful, I decided to give it to my daughter who happens to live in Oakland, CA. So, a 4500 mile trip, 13 Airbnb’s and 15 car museums later, I pulled up to her house in Oakland.

    Nice looking truck and all of that, but the big downside for me is the lack of an extended cab. As one who drove a non-extended cab S10 for many years, this is a serious fail and I would never buy one again.

    Here’s the thing. I can’t stand to have stuff stuck in my ears. I have tried professionally fitted hearing aides, wireless ear buds, etc. After wearing them for about 15 minutes, my ears just start to hurt. I don’t mean from the sound, but real pain in and around the actual ear.

    This headline brought back memories!! My wife and I were the proud owners of a 1980 Datsun 310. We bought the car new, and kept it for many years. One day, it decided not to run. I pulled off the air cleaner to spray some cleaner down the carb, and the thing started right up. Put the air cleaner back on, car stopped

    I like it. Never knew such a thing existed. The third pedal makes me like it even more. This thing would be a hit at the local Cruises and car shows.

    The day before the Covid quarantine started here in Florida, I bought a 1991 RX7 convertible for $3500. The car was in immaculate shape, including the interior. It DID need an engine rebuild, which cost me $3200. Now I have a car 9 years older than this one, probably more fun to drive, and it looks good, too.

    In the early 70's, I was second shift manager at the Hertz operation at what was then Baltimore Washington Int’l AP. When it snowed, things got real slow and boring. So, for entertainment, we would take the biggest cars on the lot, T-Birds, Lincolns, etc., out to the parking lots and slide them around like idiots.

    Girls just want to have fun!

    If the body is as clean as it looks in the pictures, this is the ideal project car. No rust to fix, no paint needed.

    Many years ago I bought a used Mazda RX2, about 4 years old. The back seat and side panels STILL had the original plastic from the factory. I thought that was pretty cool.

    You people just figuring this out? I’m 73 years old and I figured this out around the time I turned 21. You all are late to the party.