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I feel like I heard a story once upon a time that the mold for the noses on these ended up broken somehow, so Pontiac couldn’t make replacement noses.

If true, I wonder if the insurance companies sent a lot of them to the junkyard earlier than normal?

[chanting] can am can am can am CAN AM CAN AM CAN AM

While we’re on the subject of inspired car casting in movies and tv, I started watching New Girl on Netflix this week, and we should talk about some of the real oddball stuff in that show, including the hero-car Volvo 145.

I’m really surprised, btw, that we don’t have a rallycross scene here. You have all of the windy mountain roads you could ever want, from the southern tier through the Finger Lakes and up into the Adirondacks. There is plenty of opportunity for big races on public roads, or even for the construction of some large…

Maybe we can draw a bubble around the Capital Region? Proximity to a more diverse NYC might be a positive contributor.

For sure. It’s just a bunch of local backwater shops taking a little extra on the side to pass every rusted out GMT800 that comes through the door.

Upstate NY, as far as I can tell, doesn’t have a car culture. There are some Subaru and VW clubs (u vape bro?), but other than that it’s just a lot of winga-dinga Boomers in Air Monarchs and Fascist Brodozers. Nothing particularly inspiring. Not a lot of big events. Nothing like a Woodward cruise. Nothing unique like…

You beautiful genius 

They’re supposed to be pretty good! I’ve only ever seen a Conquest, I’ve never seen a Starion in person. They exist to me only in video games and my dreams lol

I think that’s the trick though. Tattooine *should* be insignificant, but it can’t be. Too much stuff happened there precisely because a bunch of important characters went there in order to avoid having stuff happen. Being a backwater is exactly what makes it unavoidable.

I have a strange and not fully fleshed-out love for the Starion. You can make mine an ‘87.

Oh my god, MegaZord and DragonZord would be dope.

I’ve often fantasized about commissioning an illustrator to do their own take on scenes/characters/concept art from Fury Road and having a van wrapped with the work...

Exactly.

Hard for this truck. Hard like a rock.

I never get hangorny. I’m a lover not a fighter.

You’re making me horngry 

COTD

Man, I dunno on this. It’s probably too decrepit at this point to use as a reliable winter beater. It’s also in pretty nice shape inside, so positive marks for that.