Only one: a 1965 Chevy Malibu convertible, 327 4-speed stick. It belonged to the father of one of my high-school friends. It was his baby, and we all knew it. My friend never got to drive it, until one day when he turned up at my house in it. “Let’s go for a ride,” he said. I hopped in immediately, of course.

It seems like every time I go to a hardware store or garden center, there is someone with a 4 cylinder 5 speed Ranger way overloading it, filling the bed to capacity with bricks or bags of gravel or something, crushing the springs right dow to the stops. And I think, there’s no way that little truck is even going to mo…

“Still” would imply I ever did.

Most of them hit the peg and stayed there. Some with round gauges would wrap around, if there was no peg to stop it. (Novas and Camaros were like this, if memory serves.) And I once saw a Chrysler New Yorker with a digital dash that started flashing “85" if you went faster than that.

“Hey, I’ve got an idea: I’ll take apart a perfectly good car, with the intention of giving it way more power than it needs or can reasonably handle, and then give up! Someone will buy it, right?”

Must be a pug thing... ours does the same thing with the screen door in back. I tell people “she started out as a dachshund but kept crashing into things, and this is the result.”

Yes, absolutely, no question about it, nice price from me. If I were shopping for a fun weekend car in this price range, I’d pass by every Mustang, every Corvette, every M3, to look at this. What’s that, you say? An S2000 is a “better” car? Probably, but it’s also dirt-common compared to this. You’d rather find a…

I have actually never seen one in person. Lots of 128 sedans and wagons, including the yellow ‘79 that my dad had, but I’ve never been in the presence of a coupe. Always loved the shape, though.

My first car... Oh how I miss it...

Us D&D players always wondered what a 20th level bard character would look like...

Big deal. Come back when you learn to play guitar.

These were $2000 cars for years and years, and I didn’t want one then. I sure as hell won’t pay thirteen grand for one with 300,000 miles on it. Lots of other more interesting cars out there for that kind of money. You kids have fun.

Oh gawd... from head on it looks like Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Clearly, you are unfamiliar with the history of the Great Nehi Flood of 1961. A Nehi bottling plant in Janesville, WI was hit by a meteor, releasing a masive sweeping tsunami of soda of various flavors. The orange wave mostly headed south, while the grape wave reached as far north as Wisconsin Dells, causing massive…

I see this story, and then I scroll down and see that Hummer, and I can’t help thinking they’re dropping the wrong vehicle from a crane...

I keep one in the glovebox of every car, along with a small flashlight and a roll of electrical tape (seriously, never drive any further than the grocery store without a roll of electrical tape in the car; it can be used to emergency-fix so many things). I don’t know how useful a “car-specific” one would be, since…

Literally my first thought. Driver was wasted, used the driver aids to get himself onto the freeway, then through some freak combination of inputs managed to defeat all the safety stuff, and ignored all the warnings. Or blacked out.

“Gros Prix,” I believe, if you want to stick with the French. But I still maintain that “Civics Type R” and “Yukons Denali” would be correct.

Neutral: I kinda wish the Chrysler Turbine Car had worked out, because it was just about the coolest looking car of its era:

Would be better if the odometer was stuck at nein nein, nein nein nein...