Did someone say “wheelman”?

That truck in the background is like when you see some poorly-dressed slob in the background of a picture of some fashion model. She’s got a pretty silver dress and he’s got some patchword red coveralls

• if you simply must drive during this celestial event, you can safely look at the eclipse through a moonroof, but not a sunroof.

I get the CAFE standard stuff, but that’s why Porsche has their less powerful cars like the Cayman/Boxster and Panamera, those help to pad the numbers.

desire to be seen as a normal person.

That image looks like a literal rendering of a polished turd.

It’s a cool looking project, but I do want to clarify something. Did you anchor it all to the car? I know you said that the weight holds it in place, but if you were to get into an accident (such as something unforseen, such as you VW dying while driving, not that that would EVER happen) and were hit, there’s a good…

The U.S. has a pretty crappy record when it comes to losing weapons to terrorists, namely ISIS. As Mother Jones points out in the case of Iraq, the United States military has provided a wide range of hardware to the Iraqis—M-16s and bullets to Humvees and tanks—that end up getting into the hands of ISIS and…

Not when the quote is “The wheels literally came off the car...”

*Has engine swap*

1978, City of Chicago, on the North side. I turned left at an intersection where there was a no-left-turn sign. I didn’t see the sign until I was half-way through the turn. A CPD cruiser was parked down the block, waiting for people like me. He gave me the ticket in a business-like fashion.

I got pulled over and knew I was in trouble when I saw the lights. I was late to see a HS friend play for the USNWT in Philly and I was driving too fast on a winding road in NJ.

I was heading to [tire store] to get new shoes mounted on my ‘02 Miata a few years back. Had my son riding shotgun, and I’d lit the rears up at every stop sign along the way, and may have done a couple of parking lot burnouts as well, you can’t prove it! Anyway, we’re making a left onto the mostly empty A1A about a…

My wife had my favorite, if slightly evil, way to get out of a ticket. We have twin boys who were about 18 moths old at the time. She got pulled over and reached back and pulled their pacifiers out of their mouths. Of course, they both started crying, and the officer let her go.

The Ultimate Safe Driving Machine will eventually stop selling you a car. Can’t get hurt driving car if you don’t have one; can’t get a car stolen from you if you don’t have one either. Take it a step further, let’s ban babies; if a baby is never born, he/she will never be in danger.

Great acid test. If she says yes after that kind of project then she truly knows what she’s in for marrying a Jalop.

Funny you mention that. I actually took her out in the car after it was finished, went on a long drive out in the country, and asked her to marry me. The car is probably going to stick around for a while.

They’re gunna build the greatest car. Really, you should see it, the greatest greatest car. And! Tesla will pay for it. I promise you that.

I’m with you. And I feel like I have to tell this story here:

Even when I drove a crappy Suzuki Forenza, I tried to park toward the back of parking lots to avoid dings and scratches. I still do the same thing now that I drive a Mustang GT that I love. It got hit twice in my own driveway, by my girlfriend.