Thanks to some extraordinary good luck in my twenties, I was able to meet Denise back in the 90s and have a fairly involved chat at a dinner with her, the late Len Frank, and a couple of other fairly significant folks in motorsports.

I wholeheartedly disagree. Summer road tires are, in my experience, almost universally superior to all season tires in the rain. The only places an all season tire outperforms a summer tire are in extreme cold and in snow/ice, where you ought to be running a dedicated winter tire.

Keeps honest people honest. 

Meh. I’ve got a trifold cover on mine and on the 3 occasions each year when I need to haul a sofa or something, it pops off in less than a minute.

All of it was batshit crazy well into the 1980s. If anyone recalls the Long Beach Grand Prix back when it wasn’t some Indycar ridiculousness, you’ll remember the infamous elevation changes, as highlighted at about 9:47 in this video.

The list of people I’d wish a fiery plane crash death on is very, very short. There’s certainly no room on that list for mere pop stars. 

That, my friend, is an objectively terrible looking car. It’s neither beautiful nor utilitarian. It’s busy, like it was designed by a Victorian steam engine designer that binge watched the Jetsons, then took a crash course in Autodesk.

Exactly my point. I wish there wasn’t something for those people so they’d have to give a shit or take the bus. LOL

Yeah. I actually only changed out the DI cassette by the side of the road on a GM era Saab once. My 9000 ate them like a hacker drinks Monsters.

The Toyota Camry. Never before was there a vehicle so utterly devoid of passion or driver engagement and, although others have come close, no better symbol of car as appliance. And, unlike Ramblers and VW Microbuses, you can’t even count on Camry drivers to be slow. They’re either rolling along at 10 mph under the…

They’re all down there. When I changed out the one on my folks’ 9-5, I just grabbed the trailer leveling blocks and drove up on ‘em so I’d have more room. Easier than using a jack, especially since my parents didn’t have a jack, which would have meant driving it over to my house to use a jack. 

Never had an issue with the timing chain guides, although I’m aware they can be problematic. As for the sludge, it’s pretty easy to spot a sludged engine and I’d surely check it in person before throwing my money down. That said, even moderately heavy sludging is pretty straightforward to fix and, assuming you’re…

The best investment I’ve ever made was buying an enterprise grade access point. If you’re tech heavy household, you’re gonna be close to or over the limit of all but the very best (and most expensive) routers’ wireless capabilities. In our house, we’ve got 65 wireless devices on our network, thanks to smart home…

Maybe I’m nuts, but after wrenching on Saabs for the better part of 40 years, I can say these GM underpinned 9-5s are pretty easy to work on and parts aren’t hard to get. Unlike earlier Saabs where engineering solutions were truly “inspired by jets” and thus weird as hell, these are pretty much Opel Vectras with…

Beyond the challenges of “normal” copyright rules, international restrictions that, often, exist because rights are granted to different companies for different countries, can make legally buying some things difficult or impossible. If I can easily purchase something in the way I intend to use it, I’ll gladly fork…

All they were missing was a Kia M450, the currently still being produced in Korea M715. And yes, that means FSJs are still in production, 56 years after they went on sale for the first time.

Air France, Alitalia, and LOT have decent coffee as well.

You forgot to account for lost PTO and negative impact to reputation due to tardiness and missed work. Not to mention negative impact to reputation with potential future spouse and in-laws and the basic all around inconvenience of being stuck on the side of the road when other things were to be done. Besides, I bought…

Sounds like my 1991 9000. In 2001 I decided that I’d rather pay $750/month for a new car than $1600-2000 unexpectedly 3-4 times a year for a car that would periodically leave me waiting for a tow truck.