Please tell me your next stop is the tire shop to get those “Maypops” replaced.

Neutral: No, but I want(ed) one. I drove a rental Suzuki Jimny all around Barbados many years ago, and really wanted to bring it home.

So that’s what that was... I was guessing a satellite.

How are any of those considered “boxy”?

Exactly. “Downshift and punch it” nearly always works. I’ve driven some cars I would not want to drive on the highway in anything but flatland (diesel VW Rabbit, and inline-6 Chevy pickup), but with my daily driver 105 hp Corolla, there’s always a lower gear if you need it. In fact, it’s what they’re for; if you’re…

You’re welcome.

Someone brought one of these to our big British car show a couple years ago. 289, British racing green, tan inside, completely original, and something like 175,000 miles. Rock chips all over the paint in the front, and heavy wear on the leather seats. It was glorious.

Sounds like it’s time for those “Don’t Laugh - It’s Paid For” bumper stickers to make a comeback.

“Sir, your Avalon is ready.”

I don’t mind the automatic in this. But I’m not going to deal with potential targa top leaks, or the hassle of maintenance of a turbo. Non-turbo, fixed roof, even with an automatic, for half the price? Sure, maybe.

Isdera reason they’re coming up for sale all of a sudden, I wonder?

Yeah, this seems tailor-made for one of those bolt-on Summit intake and carb combos. They used to be like $300, probably a grand now...?

My wife’s QX4, with the otherwise wonderful Nissan VQ35DE V6, has a tiiiiny coolant leak from a crossover pipe that goes along the back of the engine between the cylinder heads. Barely enough to lose any coolant, but enough to smell. From what I’ve read, it’s just a bad O-ring at one end of the pipe... but it’s also…

I recently read a series of articles about a guy driving a 1976 MG Midget around the world. I used to follow a blog of a girl who crossed the entire USA on a Vespa.

Oh please say you’re going to fly out and drive the Beat home. That sounds like too good of an adventure to miss.

Our preferred grocery store has one aisle of parking with a walkway down the middle. If I can get a spot on that row (which I usually can; I tend to park out a ways) then I back in, because then the trunk is facing the walkway and it makes loading easier.

If it was in top gear, sure, but if he left it in 1st...

2021 Caterham Super Seven.

I love it. I want one.

It’s a ‘71, so already negative ground. But now it has 11 blade-type fuses instead of 4 glass ones, relays for everything, and large enough wires to actually handle the current. Still running the original Lucas 35 amp alternator, but I have a 67 amp Delco to go in it, just need to have someone fab up some brackets to…