Several years ago, I manged to lose control of my beater minivan on an icy bridge by stopping too fast. I managed to somehow swerve across 3 lanes of I-95 multiple times without hitting anyone or driving off the road, and somehow caught it.   I still have no idea how, and it’s made me ponder some theological…

About 10 years or so ago, I was driving on an interstate and saw 2 cop cars behind me. I was driving pretty close to the speed limit. I kept slowing down. They kept slowing down. Eventually they pulled me over.

Turns out someone called in and said I looked like I was driving drunk. I wasn’t. They figured this out…

How much did you pay for your bad Moto Guzzi?

I mostly have a problem with his claim that his Maserati does 185, because most likely it does 0 mph because it’s at the dealer for service.

I once parked in front of a fire hydrant for several minutes without getting towed.

Exactly. The Land Cruiser is the car you buy to show that you are rich to the small subset of other rich people who know what it is.

I can’t hear the name “Cerwin Vega” without singing some Vanilla Ice.

“Now that the party is jumping, with the bass kicked in and the Vegas are pumping”

My brother, for reasons I don’t understand, is a big train enthusiast who routinely takes train vacations. This is despite the fact that he has had multiple trips take way longer than they were supposed to, including one that ended up taking him an entire extra day, where Amtrak put him in a tumbledown Days Inn…

I figured it was a shipping container, they are sometimes called “cans”

State laws can require it, though. Maryland requires a noncommercial class B for anything over 26,001 pounds.

I was going to say, I have a 2012 Ram C/V (the cargo version of the Caravan) that checks a bunch of those boxes, including the vinyl seats (which are surprisingly comfortable). Vans tend to be utilitarian, because they go to fleets and fleets want cheap and robust and don’t really care about comfort. 

In a similar vein, I was going to say the Ram TRX, which has the added bonus of annoying Bradley Brownell.

I’m impressed he didn’t come back with more junk than he came there with.

Although “I bought a truckload of Jeep parts from some dude who was about to scrap them” would be a great Jalopnik headline. 

This is defendant on the state. Some states do have non-CDL Class A and B licenses that are required if you are operating an RV that hits those weight classes. Maryland is one such state.

Her husband is one lucky cat.

Yeah, I see Ram Promasters all the time around me.... with the Ram badges removed.

I remember them having occasional non-custom vehicles, I remember seeing UPS Ford Aerostar cargo vans in the 80's/90's when I was a lower case G. 

Well, nowadays Volvo is owned by Geely, so you could argue that they are Chinese.

Unpopular opinion:  I’m more interested in that high-roof conversion Ford van behind the Acty.   So much room for activities, and probably super comfortable seats. 

I have a feeling this isn’t so much “has been driving on expired plates for 30 years” as “found an old set of plates that hadn’t been used in 30 years and threw them on their unregistered car recently”

I have the “Ag Tag” on my truck - I think the orange really pops.

http://maefonline.com/home/ag-tag/

I thought about getting the “vintage 1910" plates they offered a while back for a year, but couldn’t really justify the cost.