I like mountain-biking; it’s pretty much the only exercise that I really enjoy. And I’m six-foot-six, and I weigh 300 pounds with clothes and a backpack, so I kill cheap bikes fast. I’ve broken cranksets; I’ve torn the heads off of spokes on the rear-wheel while pedaling hard; I’ve bent handlebars and broken chains.…

Dem triple stays on the back, tho... very weird, very cool!

Oh, you, with your reading the article and paying attention and whatnot...

Hmm... a 1968 Dodge Coronet wagon with a 440 for me, a Porsche 911 for my wife, and a 4wd Ford F-250 with a 300-inch inline 6 for projects.

Babe the Big Blue Ox!

Is it a 1500 or a 2500?

I can’t find your link but would be glad to read it is I could.

And what I should have said is “California has no vehicular safety inspections; ergo, California effectively has no safety standards.”

California has no safety standards - only emissions testing.

ND. Wrong-side drive, too little power, made of unreliable parts, hard to source new unreliable parts for, tire wear suggests suspension is dreadful, and I’m six inches too tall to wedge myself into it.

Well I DIDN’T want to, but now I can’t help it and I’m extra-confused and frankly a little disturbed by memories of the column-mounted shifter in my grandmother’s Peugeot 504...

Came here to say that.

I hear that the Orange Bowl’s halftime slideshow was awesome that year.

Anything that weighs 1400 pounds less than a Smart ForTwo is an automatic win in my book.  15.75 lbs/hp isn’t that impressive, but a first-gen Miata was 18.25 so...

4800 miles in six days in a 4wd 1988 Dodge D-250 with no A/C, a vinyl bench seat, and a co-driver 16 inches shorter than me, in August, in the Deep South, towing a 20-foot boat. All with government plates, natch, which meant we were not allowed to exceed the 55 MPH speed limit.

Everything is more fun with more power. Full stop.

Or BOTH, resulting in him traveling too far back in time and having to fight dinosaurs.

I suspect there’s more to it than this, since the 6-speed Wrangler definitely isn’t hitting 60 in less than 4 seconds.

How can any car that hits 300,000 miles be BAD?

Added as a comment because (useless buggy garbage-ass bucket of chum) Kinja wouldn’t let me put this picture with the original post.

Just in time for my first-ever YouTube-enabled TV!