I second this motion!

While I admire this Vega's condition, it is, after all, still a Vega. I don't care what's under the hood.

Sure, except if you're 6 feet tall or taller. Cramped cabin.

As a Hoosier who drives all over the state, let me say for the record that speed enforcement is, on the whole, very lax here. It's nice.

I work in Carmel, Indiana. I remember what 5 pm was like before the roundabouts, on what was (outside of the old core town) just a network of rural roads. There would be dreadful mile-long backups at the 4-way stops. Those days are long gone. Traffic moves very smoothly at all times of the day.

My solution to this problem was to buy an old, comfortable bike. (A 1986 Schwinn Collegiate, for those who are curious.) The upright riding position rocks my behind back far enough that all the pressure is on my haunches. Problem solved.

I respect and admire anyone who restores a plain-Jane sedan.

It's about sharing responsibility. It has an underlying assumption that the bar should bear a certain amount of responsibility for its patrons and stop serving when they've had too much.

CP even for $1.

@bygeorge — jimgrey.net is my site! I'm as much (or more) a roadfan as I am a car fan! And yes, that's really an old alignment of US 40.

Ah Terre Haute, I know it well, I lived there for 9 years. Drive west out of Effingham and soon the road makes a curve to go over (or under, I forget) a railroad track. Just as it curves west again, look out to your right and there this will be. This is less funny when you know that this segment is only still there…

"I know!" someone at the highway maintenance barn exclaimed. "Let’s get drunk and go stripe some road!"

Jeez, for $800, if it were near where I live I'd buy it, drive it around and have fun with it for six months or a year, and then sell it for $800. There's nothing better than free fun!

I owned a 1983 Renault Alliance MT (for Motor Trend, honoring it for being the Car of the Year). It was comfy and got fantabulous gas mileage — I averaged 40-45 mpg. But that car was SO SLOW. Zero to 60 in something like 45 seconds. Just dreadful. And then at 75,000 miles, major systems began failing one by one. …

The color's just faded on that print.

I was waiting for the chain to break and the truck to hurtle headlong into the garage across the street.

IMS press release: [www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com]

The man's right. Therefore, I'm not reading the rest of the comments. Sorry.

It's just change. There was hue and cry when New York started allowing regular old sedans, rather than purpose-built taxis. And now there's hue and cry over this. I'll bet 20 years from now or whatever when these minivan-taxis are phased out, there will be hue and cry over the loss of what has become an icon, too.

Does anybody else think the music track on that one would be right at home on an episode of Speed Racer?