AMC Eagle Sx/4. It’s cheap, it’s badass, and AMC counts as Detroit (right?) The lack of reliability will build character.

grinder ftw

This was my Dad’s car when I was growing up (not the actual one, but same kit/color).

Oh, and it came with the original window sticker. The color is called “Honduran maroon” and it had the optional “new york style horn” which was loud enough to set off car alarms. Not sure what was going on in GM’s naming department.

It’s perfect for the venice beach/ santa monica / malibu side of LA. Cruising along the PCH at sunset was amazing.

When I lived in LA, I had a 1974 Pontiac Grand Ville Convertible. There were multiple occasions where I was stuck in stop and go traffic with the top down and other drivers just started up conversations with me while we waited. One time, someone just straight passed me a joint.

Came here to say this (but couched in Louisiana’s Civil law vocabulary). Beat me to it.

Question for all the confederate apologists: why is the Army of Northern Virginia battle flag the only one that’s still around? I mean, I get why it’s the most popular (Lee), but South Carolina had its own flag. If it’s all about respecting heritage, why don’t you actually, you know, research your own heritage?

I always thought it was a lazy way to cover a hole where some uninstalled option could have gone.

The viper doesn’t look like butt, it looks like dong.

LHT (the makers of the K-Sight) do a CR-Z build:

I was with you on that whole post except for:

if you drive straight through I’m sure you’re just thinking “west... west... west...”

Keep in mind these “strips” could be nothing more than grooves cut into the road in the proper patterns. Raised areas could just be the road surface, and the 0s could be the groves. This could be very minimal, and, based on the sensitivity of these sorts of sensors, even cheap ones, the patterns of grooves could be…

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Diesel Isuzu Trooper: $7500

...excretion...expulsion

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And most important, you taught your son how to be a man. That’s the shit that he’ll remember as he gets older (hopefully he was paying attention and not playing games on his phone).

Not all of them. Some are proper dual clutch designs, some are CVTs that let you play with rev points but still have a torque converter of some kind.