I just bought a 2001 Saturn SC2 with a manual trans and only 120K miles on it for less than $2k a few months ago. After daily riding my motorcycle for the past couple of years, I decided that I wanted something simple, cheap and reliable for those few bad weather days we get in SoCal in the winter. This car is all…

My 9th Grade Earth Science Teacher loved hers. She told the story in class one day of driving home drunk and ran it into a guardrail and it didn’t even dint the car. Never before had someone admit they had driven drunk, yet alone, a teacher. I guess there is a lesson in there? 

My father (may he rest in pizza - he’d probably prefer a sausage, pepper and onion hoagie), traveled a lot for a living - and for fun. He was famous for being able to tell you that (example) “forty miles from the sixth exit off the Blue Ridge parkway is this incredible restaurant...” - and there was. And they…

My Dad worked 6 days a week as an oil heater technician, going to people’s homes to fix whatever was wrong with their boiler or furnace. My mother would make him a plate and wrap it with aluminum foil and set it at his place at the table. We would eat precisely at 5pm, and he would heat up his dinner and eat it when…

I’m hoping there’s an endurance race/add-on modeled after the Carrera Panamericana.

Ford The Integrated Tether System, so they can license it to other companies

FWIW, Volvo has offered modular accessories since at least the 90s.

Don’t forget the C8!

Have you not been around when an extremely Jalopnik-centric car gets released?

Missed opportunity for the Ford Active Replaceable Tether System.

“Multiple slots under the rear seats” is probably referencing the under-seat storage bins.

My old man wouldn’t even get the FM radio. He’d get the base AM, then buy an FM adapter, which he would install by meticulously cutting up the dashboard in his new car.

thanks i forgot seat belt buckle burns.

Oh yea they did. I still have the scar from one when my mom’s LeBaron got sideswiped and launched said ashtray out of the door. I was 3 years old and needed 24 stitches. Everyone else in the car was fine.

At least they had the decency to provide rear seat ashtrays.

Can confirm. Mom got a new Monte Carlo in 1975 with a vinyl bench interior but no a/c. Which still strikes me as odd seeing as she was always the type to wilt in heat. I guess Dad was too cheap to spend an extra $300? Four years later she upgraded to a Regal with a 60/40 vinyl interior but *with* a/c.

Ugh, these suuuuuuucked. The one tiny saving grace of the ‘78 Century wagon we had was that it was white with tan interior, so the burns you’d get from the chrome seat belt buckles weren’t quite as bad as in some of my folks’ previous cars.

Herbie the Love Bug and the personality of the car are unforgettable. All these years later I am an endurance runner and a full time valet who owns a ‘68 VW Beetle four speed manual that broke down so much the tow truck driver knew me by name. I didn’t buy alcohol for a year to buy the car a new long block and I…

Paul Newman’s Speedster in Harper. 

She sucks nitro through Phase IV heads! 600 horsepower through the wheels! She’s meanness set to music and the bitch is born to run!