Thank you for a prime example of why rates often don’t equate with real numbers. And why statistics are the third common type of lies.

If you’re all that determined to take on a fast cycle with your Honda, just go full Darwin award and strap a surplus turbojet to it. Knock yourself out. And have your next of kin let us know how it went, OK?

I’d long forgot about Baghdad Bob. Thanks for the deep cut.

Dude, you’re going to need a lot more than engine to beat a literbike. Especially with a FWD car. Not only will you have to deal with the substantial powertrain losses with a transverse gearbox, you’re going to have to deal with keeping it alive behind four figures of horsepower.

There’s no mental gymnastics here. Just blind allegiance.

Sure.

Not a single interior picture? Even as the seller waxes poetic about how the roof rack “enhances the vehicle’s culture” — Gaak! — not a single mention of it in the text either. And this is the wife’s wheels — with a recovery kit stuck to said cultural roof rack and enough lights to be seen from space. Hmmmm ...

Sure as Hell is. Delray Beach, Home of the Early Bird Special.

I can relate. I also lived in the slums of Belmont “wheah tha rentahs live.” Nice neighborhood, but worlds away from Belmont Hill.

Or, move into residential buildings either in or on the periphery of a downtown area.

I’m just the opposite.

Very Ferrari California-ish in your lead illustration. Very pretty.

That’s what I told friends in San Antonio when I was in the Air Force.

Not so much a resolution, but a curiosity:

I admire your bracket racing skills, as well as your evil technique for turning competitors into angry bracket busters in the other lane.

Berlinettas were supposed to be posh, more luxurious than the base Camaro. But Avis would rent you either one at the same rate.

Damn.

Nah. Front-Wheel Drive doesn’t cut it. The first-gen was dynamically superior to that bustle-backed beast.

I wouldn’t necessarily say that’s a bad thing. This X-plus (GM actually re-classified it as a K-body) chassis was used for the Seville and the Pontiac Phoenix 4-doors of that era. it also was essentially the platform used for the second-gen Camaro and Firebird.

Intown Portland ME early on a Sunday morning is pretty much a ghost town. For holidays, it’s pretty much a wasteland for the whole morning — or until the bars open.