This is way off the main point here, but I was initially confused as to why “Blind Pig Parlour Bar” would be racist. I know “blind pig” is archaic slang for a speakeasy (thanks to comics from the 20's) but didn’t know it also refers to a corrupt cop overlooking illegal stuff. Is that a regional (southern USA) saying?

I practically had PTSD after a 15-1/2 hour flight from New Delhi to EWR in the back of Crying Baby Airlines. 19 hours! No, just no.

David, I found a nearby rusty Jeep Mecca that you can pilgrimage to! Go to Walck’s 4 Wheel Drive in Bowmanstown PA (just off Rt 248). If I could post a picture I could show you the motley array of Jeeps stored outside, many under the disembodied roofs of something or other.
https://walcks4wd.com/

The Geely TradeWarrior

“You get an F” “Oh, snap!” Those still crack me up.

Ooh, a video. It’s Bulava Watch Time!
(Yes I’m over 50, why do you ask?)

Starred for the perfect WKRP in Cincinnati callback.

Nope nope nope. You want a 1964 Galaxie.

Wow, flashback! My wife had an Omni for her college car when were dating long-distance. One time she drove home but it kept overheating, so she’d pull into rest stops to let it cool then get back on I-80 (circa 1988, no cell phones). Normally would take 4 hours, instead it was more like 7. At her house I found that…

Wow, memories. The first family vehicle I got to drive (back in 1983) was a 1970 F-100 with all of the manual “features” you list above, plus a manual choke. The gas tank was behind the seat for bonus sloshing noises!

Hey, that’s my neck of the woods! A few months ago I bought a 2007 Nissan Sentra to teach my 16-year-old daughter to drive in, and then she can flog it back and forth to school. 6 speed and only 2400 bucks.

Oh my, this brings back memories of a 1988 Ford Ranger S that I had from new. I joked that the “S” stood for “stripped”: manual steering, non-power brakes, anemic carbureted engine, radio delete (!), and no headrests on the bench seat. That last one caused my head to be rudely introduced to the back window in a mild…

All the above points aside, couldn’t they come up with a better name than StarChase? Not dynamic enough. I’m sure we could come up with better ones. How about CarNarc? Tracker Keeper? PerpTagger 6900??

How on earth are they keeping the keys straight for the thousands of cars here? Do they leave them in the cars??

You know what else was a legal “longstanding process”? Slavery. 

Ford Police Interceptor V8 (early 60's).

Wow, my ‘87 2-door Golf had the door mounted shoulder belts, the knee bolsters... and no lap belts whatsoever! Real fun when the locks would freeze and the door would fling open on a hard right turn. I never knew how VW avoided a recall or c class-action suit over that design.

Hey, I too was road-tripping from PA through Maine on the 4th to spend some vacation time up in New Brunswick & Nova Scotia. I enjoyed glimpses of unexpected fireworks that evening. The wife's '05 Volvo V70 manual wagon now has 149k on it. Only had a low-beam light burn out on the trip, fortunately, although the…