That’s how my regular driver was. He could do flawless uphill starts. Which considering how steep our hills were and how heavy those buses get filled with dozens of kids, it is an amazing feat.

Oh yes. They are definitely still around.

This reminds me of a cool thing I have tried explaining to people. I graduated high school in 1999. While that is a whole generation ago, something really interesting happened in the couple years preceding that.

I’ve been waiting for your take on this. Kudos on the write-up. It looks like my 2005 Accord V6 6-Speed manual will be traded up to one of these.

Is it fast? No. Is it quick? Yes. Is it awesome in the twisties? Fuck yes! I never had more fun behind the wheel than carving out mountain roads through WV and OH in that thing.

That’s close enough. I’ll take it. 👍🏻

No you weren’t. It’s all good. ;)

Yeah, that nose leaves a lot to be desired. But the rest makes up for it. And, I’ll be putting a body colored grill on it soon.

I live here by forced circumstance. My wife is active duty, and this is our current station. BTW, there are many many nicer luxury cars here. And I’m not knocking them at all. Nor am I saying mine is “better”. It is just a very rare configuration of vehicle. The Acura dealer called it a “unicorn” and keep trying to…

Mine. SH-AWD 6-speed manual. As far as I have been able to research, the only one on Cape Cod.

At the peak of things, I was on Dilaudid all the time. And I had Vicodin and Fentanyl for breakthrough pain.

My first comment disappeared into the aether.

This is absolutely satisfying for me. Dr Ruan was my doctor in Mobile. The level of shadiness with him approached black hole levels.

That is an honest opinion. I can see that, too.

Ah, the USCGC James. Built in Pascagoula when we were stationed in Mobile. Have a friend that served on it.

Prominent wheel arches. They can take nice flowing character lines and turn them into characture lampoons of themselves.

No Firestones. That’s the reason that rollover wasn’t worse.

What a damn good article, David. Explanation that wasn’t superfluous, informative, and well researched.

Easy. Radiator cap.

So when my second child was due to be delivered, I had the following conversation with my employers. Keep in mind that my baby was scheduled to be delivered by Cesarean on January 2nd.