This looks like a hole in the road into which one would need to shovel a fairly large amount of money.

I never take my headlights off auto, and have the fog lights on permanently. However, when I take it to the dealership, they sometimes turn them off. I’ve trained myself to double check these switches before I leave the dealership after a service call, but it would be nice if the technicians would return those…

I am glad that Jonathan got a car, but I think that the local police need to investigate Steelman.

Carol drove the station wagon to the grocery store, Mike drove the convertible to the office and the beat. Minivans are the successor to the station wagon. Dad wants to look cool driving an SUV to work and to meet toyboys, he doesn’t want to drive the soccer mom mobile.

If you stole and sold a car in either Washington or Oregon, you’d be arrested, released on your own recognizance and be back out stealing cars the same day.

In America, government want to push responsibility for “public” functions onto  private entities (including individuals) wherever possible. That’s why we get bills for damage done by criminals, why we are responsible for maintaining the city’s sidewalk in front of our house and why there is a proliferation of HOAs.…

Any kind of muscle car that screams “big car, small dick”. Any car that says, I’m going to be spending every second of my off-work time wrenching.

Is this a genuine 1970's shaggin’ wagon/sin bin/f—k truck or what? Personally, I like the 1974 HQ Holden Sandman panel van that was so popular among the surfies in Oz.

I’m with you. No law enforcement officer is getting  my phone without a warrant.

1985, my first car a 1974 Holden Kingswood with a 202 red engine. I paid AUD1100 for it, about a year later it threw a rod. The 2021, CPA me, would call a junk yard and have it towed. The 1985 me paid another AUD1,100 for a rebuilt red engine. I sold it a year later for AUD1,100. I currently dive a 2012 Mazda CX-9…

They were probably removed at the behest of fleet buyers who don’t want their employees or customers smoking in their cars. Fleet buyers have a lot of say in how car makers accessorize their vehicles. I strongly suspect that BMW’s “Canberra Beige” was a suck up to the Australian government, which, surprise, surprise,…

If the exhaust system on the truck being driven by the teen was illegally modified to enable it to “roll coal”, there is a pretty good chance that the truck’s owner’s auto insurer, and possibly umbrella insurer, will deny coverage as the truck was unroadworthy at the time it was being driven. That drastically reduces…

That would be the infamous “Defect Notice”. Cop gave my brother’s friend a ticket and a DN for having “a faulty ball joint” back in the eighties - which was an obvious ploy to meet his ticket quota and say f**k you to an 18 year old.

It seems obvious to me that these people are being too blase with their assessment of road conditions. If I were approaching one of these traffic installations, I’d treat it the same as a speed hump - approach very slowly and carefully. Further, if you’re driving in jurisdiction known to employ these devices, or with l…

In the days of three speed column shift manual transmissions: third gear is only for the freeway.

To my mind - the Holden-Isuzu Gemini. It had the best four speed manual gearbox I’ve ever driven, it was comfortable, no frills. A great little car that has long since stopped production. It was based on the GM T platform. 

These cars may have been stolen to order. The parking lot is probably not run by the airport, but a sub-contractor, who employs minimum wage personnel to do the day-to-day stuff. No surprise then that such an employee would be vulnerable to a bribe. “Hey Louie, there’s $500 for you when you let us know if there’s a…

Sydney and Melbourne Airports in Australia run into this issue from time to time, although they usually get stuck with beat to hell minivans abandoned by backpackers heading home to Europe. The typical abandoned van would be a 1970's/80's VW Type 2, rusty, 500,000 kms on the odometer and (if it starts) spewing smoke.…

Inter-city passenger trains in the USA used to be largely private. Once airlines took away the most lucrative first class passengers that used to book on long distance trains, the railroads continually degraded passenger service until Congress “rescued” passenger service by creating Amtrak, which successive…

There are actually smartphone navigation apps that let you plug in the height and width of your vehicle so that the app can find a route you can travel safely. Most RVers use these apps to make sure they don’t peel the top off their $150,000 fifth wheel. Commercial drivers with brains use them so they don’t wreck…