I will always champion the little Neons.   I’ve had a few and I say “I’m done with Neons” and somehow end up with another one.  They’re so damn cheap and so easily modifiable and satisfying to drive. 

Wriggle like a fish, boy

That’s a huge part of my issue with the whole “restomod” scene. It’s the same shit we’ve seen a gazillion times on the same cars. The same with any car show I’ve been to. The same people driving the same restored Chevelles, Impalas, Novas, Mustangs, blah blah blah. Some have tubs and pro-street wheel and tire combos…

My 1996 Neon SOHC 5 speed. I got the car for $1200 with shitty coilovers already installed and a set of 15" Fiero GT wheels...actually my old set of Fiero wheels that had made the rounds in the Neon circles for quite a few years since I’d sold them to buy a set of Rota Slipstreams....which as it turns out, I bought…

I’ve been lusting after a FiST for a while.   That will be my next car. 

You have no concept of slow until you’ve driven a 1984 Dodge Caravan with a CARBURATED 2.2L 4 cylinder and an AUTOMATIC. I’m willing to bet my fat ass could’ve got out and ran up an on-ramp faster than that thing.

I can only imagine the worlds worst Christine scenario, with the ghost of LeBay constantly repairing the sad Buick but not fixing the coolant leak from the intake manifold gasket.  You can’t just get in and go, you have to fuss with it a half hour every morning, but you can’t destroy it either. 

Box of tissues in the rear deck. 

I can hear that interior. 

The Buick Last Century, amiright?

I’m a sucker for bench seats too. 

This list is incomplete without at least one Honda engine. B series are legendary, K series are on their way. Honestly, one of the best production car engines by Honda...or any manufacturer for that matter, are the lowly D series SOHC engines. People are making 500 wheel HP on 1.5 liters of displacement, ONE cam and…

More like the 1.6L  150hp 320 tq turbo diesel slated for the UK market C8.

Here’s the thing. In the suburbs where you have the police who actually show up...lower crime rate, you have suburban commandos with body armor cosplaying as some tacticool hero with their $1,500 AR style rifles with red dot sights and military style muzzle brake or $1,500 Sig pistol. Firearms are more of a hobby to…

“That being said, did the police officer identify himself as such? Give proper commands?”

I’d say it’s pretty plausible. Life’s cheap to some people. Here in Indy a couple weeks ago....again, a Charger...was driving crazy, doing donuts, etc. during the local street races and was “prevented” from coming into where they were racing. The Charger driver shot and killed one of the street racers.

Rina’s Pizzaria in Boston’s North End was $8 for two slices and a drink. The slices each were almost as big as your average Little Caesars’s hot and ready and a gazillion times as good. 

Unusually hot and humid day in Boston’s North End, finding a nice restaurant....my gf: “The patio’s nice! You want to sit outside?”

That’s how you get a 5 star wanted level. 

Egon with the gas face