The statue on top of the tank during the chase scene was a bit over-the-top, but agreed. Even that wasn’t on the level of the goofiness of the pigeon double-take on the gondola hovercraft in Moonraker, which for me is essentially the low point of the franchise (the surfing song during the beginning of A View to a…

the etymology of ‘dead ringer’ is fun to look up too.

I’m a big fan of useless in bar trivia, trivia facts. My fiance now does an eye roll when I start a sentence with “Funny thing about...”

One of my sisters friends in high school had a crummy little jeep. 90s era, i think it was a dark blue. Doesnt matter it was jeep flavored from the 90s.

My Sweetheart’s Son (no relation) had an old Civic Si (VTEC, yo?) and got out somewhere with a dead battery. I went out and had him push me around the parking lot where I popped the clutch and it fired right up. his eyes get big and he says “How did you do that?”

Old dudes doing shits.

Warning interesting/not interesting anecdote ahead:

The dead in deadblow, is the same usage as in the phrase “Dead as a doornail.” It comes from usage of the word in carpentry in Ye Ole tymes. Nails were frequently re-used historically but door nails were a one time use deal. Nails used to hold doors to their frames…

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly is has great practical value.

We were in West Germany in 1989 (just before the wall fell). We rented a mid 60s Westfalia from a pilot and toured which included driving through the East German corridor. It was my job to get out and whack the starter when it got cranky. I think I was 14 at the time? You always get the attention of the police when…

Or maybe I just liked the way he wrote it? Cool thing about humanity is, we can like different things.

I think he’s saying that the grandpas that buy this car don’t need 400 horsepower to accidentally launch it off the road and at your house twice as fast as they could in the 90's.

Sad part is, if the Titanic had hit it head on, or even turned later than it did, it most likely would not have flooded enough compartments to sink. As it was, the damage was barely into compartment five, and she could have remained afloat with any three, or the first four flooded if memory serves me correctly.

That’s ridiculous and amazing. Now excuse me while I play on the Porsche configurator for the next hour and a half...

I go more for the earlier, more rounded ones, but basically we’re having a Prettiest Supermodel argument here.

Maybe they are just taking the Porsche route to profitability.

Putting aside the content (about which I care not) and focusing just on the writing, this is one of the best written reviews I’ve read in a good long while.

That car is gorgeous in that color. I prefer the mid-late 60's version like you have there because the proportions are better. In my opinion, the earlier versions were a little too short to look “just right”.

One of the favorite models in my collection is a 67/68 Continental convertible that my mom actually built for…

I know you said JFK, but all I heard was Mayor Quimby.

It’s nice to finally see more harmony between the front and back end on the new Conti. The MKZ suffered from a total lack of design “symbiosis” as the front of the car looked like it belonged onto a whole other vehicle. Not to mention its interior was total garbage.

There was one dream where I was driving a beautiful blue Porsche Cayman S. I remember thinking to myself, “Dang, it sure is sad that I can’t really open it up, because that would be illegal.” Then I remember thinking, “Wait a minute. I’m dreaming, so it’s OK.” So I put my foot all the way to the floor, and left it…

This review is spectacularly well written.