@TurboWagon: Wagons didn't suffer from the explosion problems, so no baffles needed!

@UDMan: But the GM offerings look like they're on their tippy toes with those tiny wheels in those huge wells, and they're so narrow for their height that they look all hunch-shouldered and stick-up-their-butt. The Internationals are manly in the tradition of, "If more is better, then too much is just right!"

When I was in high school in the early 80s, someone a block from the school had a Dart just like this. I wanted it, and I didn't even drive! My heart would go aflutter as I walked by it much like it did for that one girl from the other side of the tracks.

@Slantsick goes hybrid: Burns Oil and Rubber: I worked in radio when that song hit and the station I dj'd at played it heavily. Great tune.

I have a major soft spot for Pintos, a 1974 coupe having been my first car in 1986. I have eBay e-mail me whenever someone posts a Pinto for sale, because I have a vague notion of buying one in reasonable nick and driving it sometimes. But tuh tuh twenty grand?!!1!?

@Krautwagen: Sounds like a beer commercial!

Lewis drives a beat up '69 Dart

I'd totally buy one old Corolla after another.

@jduffy13: There's more trunk on that Bonne than there's hood on my Toyota!!

My third-grade teacher (1975) had a yellow '65 with the black vinyl roof. Not exactly an image of style and penache.

Before I got divorced and thus had to move a few years ago, my eightysomething next-door-neighbor had a maroon '75 Granada sedan in her garage with something like 35,000 miles on it. She bought it new when newly widowed, but then remarried and did the old-school thing of letting her new husband drive her around 95% of…

@grrgle: Fabulous point, and I'm pretty much in the same boat as you.

So if I have an .edu address through my alma mater but am taking a course through a community college that doesn't offer e-mail, and Microsoft calls me to verify, will they try to zap me for the full cost?

I owned a first-gen Sienna, top of the line with all the toys. Competent but dull. Was so glad to sell it.

They gotta ditch that black plastic bit on the c panel. Ick. Otherwise, this is a decent exterior for a volume four-door.

These things just look right in orange.

It's got '74-'75 era bumpers. The '71s had the little blade bumpers.

There's this groovy chick I know

1992ish, I-70 from Indy to Terre Haute, got caught in an ice storm. The road was a sheet of ice. I drove 20 miles an hour, tops, all the way, while other cars and semis, idiots the lot, passed me and invariably slip-slided all over the road, hitting guardrails like they were bumpers in a giant pinball game. My…

Are there any new-car dealers in Alameda? I'd think they'd all go broke.