@area_educator: Me either. It looks like somebody pulled it down too far right in the middle.

@HurtsSoGood: I'm glad somebody said the M-word, because that's exactly what this car reminds me of. It's more what the current-gen Matrix should look like.

@scroggs: Oh Lord help me, what did I step in?!!?

@Syrax: I'm all for stuffing V8s under hoods, but there are better candidates for it than Pintos!!

I had a Pinto as my first car. I loved that little rascal irrationally. But this nonsense of stuffing V8s under the hood...fergodsakeman, why, when there are so many other better uses for such an engine? Crack Pipe!!

@FormerlyPreferredCustomer: No kidding. How ironic this post comes on the same day as the one about the Polo — would much rather have that than the car pictured here.

@ursa: You'd have to fight me for it!

@Goes Like Stink: I'm wit ya on that. The 72 Chevy truck is what a truck should look like.

When I was born in '67, my dad owned a '66 Galaxie in this same shade of yellow! Mom hated the color so in about '71 Dad had it painted baby blue, which Mom didn't like either.

@UDMan: And the Cougar Wagon was just a Zephyr with a Cougar front clip. Yawn!

I eat breakfast in front of my computer every day. My keyboard shows it.

drooooooool.

@PlayerX: I'm a Luddite, I guess; I don't own an iPod and don't see myself buying one!

That roofline makes thsi car look like it means business! Beautiful!

I think a reason we can't buy basic cars anymore is that so many of us want others to think we're wealthier than we really are, and we buy "the toys" in part to show that. Even a crappy Hyundai Elantra with all the toys makes us feel, anyway, like we have something worth showing off.

I don't think the discussion is really about printing vs. cursive — it's about personal scrawl vs. careful handwriting. My personal scrawl looks much more like cursive than that of any of my three sons; theirs looks more like printing. (Interesting that I was born in '67 and my sons in '85, '97, and '99.) But it's…

I felt a sharp pang deep within my guts to learn that this thing sold for $100. Why, oh why do I have to live out here in the rust belt, where the last of these little cars died unmercifully in 1981?!!? If I had been there, I'd've outbid this guy and then driven it lovingly, like it was the only thing my dearly…

@Schweppes - Now with more school work: Props for the Matrix Mommobile!

My mom's old school - she doesn't drive. Dad takes her everywhere she needs to go.

My dad's best friend had one of these in the early 70s and it was the most hated car of my childhood. It was hotter 'n hell in the summertime under those sky panels, and it always had that baked-naugahyde smell.