I bought a primer maroon ‘79 Monte Carlo for $75 in the 90s. Under the seat, I found a dime bag.

Before you get excited, by dime bag, I mean a literally ziplock bag full of dimes.

Then get excited again, because they were all silver dimes.

Then get positively stoked, because behind the bag of dimes was a pair of…

I used to work at a convenience store in New Hampshire alongside a prominent north-south highway. Every winter, a group of three guys and a girl would stop in on their way from New York to Canada in their Jeep....with the top off. They wore giant coats, hats, scarves, and goggles, and looked like old timey arctic…

I hate-love this take.

It’s pretty telling that when the trucker tries to describe why the driver in front of him was being an idiot, the ONLY way to can convey what was idiotic was by putting on an Indian accent and spouting almost all nonsense sounds. He was asked twice, by someone friendly to him, and he couldn’t produce any actual…

I’m (semi) anti-capitalist, and this still rang as grotesquely untrue to me. I lived in a CA neighborhood with million dollar houses that were 850 square feet and had cars on blocks in the driveway, and street vendors pushing food carts. Those aren’t “rich people” house prices. 

And the rest of the article doesn’t even mentioning the homeowners’ complaints as being significant. It was an investigative news team doing the work. Sure, it might have started from complaints, but this isn’t a “rich people complain about nothing” issue, this is an “Investigative team sheds light on a problem” issue.

This article was not fact checked and contains several typos. 

NH in the 90s, Driver’s Ed was a class you could take in high school. I assumed the class got me ready, and I’d take the test at the DMV afterwards. On the last day of class, we went through our normal stuffs, and the instructor announced “Well, you passed”. Evidently the official test was part of the class. I missed…

The Jason/David story is pinned as the top story in the default view.

You (and I) are just viewing it in the chronological feed, which is no longer the default view. 

It’s a duely and only lost on of the right rear tires.

Awesome, thanks. 

Will there be a Jalop article pointing us to where you two have gone, or do I just have to remember to google your names every few weeks?

Jiro Dreams of Sushi.

Torch Dreams of Taillights. 

I had a 4WD GL wagon that had this. I never knew it was for passing!,\ I mainly used it to confuse the Jeeps on trails at night.

My GL had an aftermarket switch next to it marked Death Ray, but I think it must have broken when I got the car (used), as it didn’t seem to do anything no matter how much I tried it....

Preach, brother, preach!

Mine was Aztec Gold, would only top 65 mph if you had someone in the passenger seat to hold the dash from shaking off, and climbed dirt/rock mountain paths that challenged the lifted F150 crowd.

It also flew through the air nicely, and drove back home with no drama.

My only problem with it was…

I’d like a few different axis.

Reliability: On any given day, all else being equal, how likely is this car to fail?
Finikiness: In order to hold a reliability number, how much work/maintenance needs to be done?
Survivability: How long can this be expected to last without spending x% of the car’s value in a single repair?
…

I felt dirty, but I did. My son rarely comes to town, and I’d spent the previous 6 months trying to get him to let me buy a car (he was driving a Dodge Grand Caravan with no AC or working driver side window in freaking Texas). I told my son that this is where we SHOULD walk out, but ultimately I just forked over as I…

My son was in town for a single day, and I was going to buy him a used car. Our local Kia dealership and a Soul (manual!) that we liked. We test drove cars at other dealers and went back to the Kia dealership at 4pm to tell them we’d like the car, at sticker price, but we had to complete the transaction today.

They…

With ever mentioning of Nader, I like to remind people that Nader didn’t kill the Corvair. The Mustang did. GM replaced the Corvair with the Camaro, The narrative is always “we can’t have cool things because of Nader”, which has always seemed pretty short sighted, what with the cool automotive things we got shortly…

So Nader’s failing is that he didn’t catch every problem in the industry?