NP for all the rust I’m *not* seeing. And now that we’ve retired the Crack Pipe, can the tortured segues from one NPOND car to another be the next to go? Today’s truck may be a single cab, but the amount of real estate you took up to swing the narrative around from yesterday’s Fiat Coupe to this rig, is crewcab-sized. 

I kept getting versions of this “fun fact” meme;

The way I see it, there are two complicating factors - fame and age - with people who accomplished a lot prior to transitioning. If any use of a deadname is unacceptable does that inevitably, say, diminish Caitlyn Jenner’s Olympic accomplishment if material first published in the ‘70s and archived via scanning and…

I’m surprised Starbucks didn’t do this years ago. Sell ad space on their cups, that is. 

It’s a (Valiant) Duster. Belvedere, Illinois west of Chicago was and is home to a Chrysler plant where a lot of them were made.

TIL God used to work at Chrysler Belvedere Assembly in the ‘70s.

TIL God used to work at Chrysler Belvedere Assembly in the ‘70s.

That’s Jim Carrey as Matthew McConaughey.

Is there any truth to what I’ve heard that they were barely used because the cops didn’t think they look macho enough?

The boldest styling move of the 6000 SUX was completely straight-up reusing the GM Colonnade A-body sedan greenhouse. 

Yes, it’d be NP to the right collector, or a Hollywood studio rental service at half the price. Either Joyce lands on her feet in Season 4 of Stranger Things and this is the upgrade from her decade-old Pinto, or it’s the Driver’s Ed car in The Goldbergs, although I’d hate for it to be subjected to Adam’s (actor’s…

If it were cheap and wrecked it would at least be a swap candidate, maybe put that sidewinder LS behind the front seats of a Geo Metro?

I knew it was the final nail in the PLC coffin in 2006 when Chevy gave the Monte Carlo a facelift alongside the Impala’s full reskin. Exact same thing Ford had done with the Taurus wagon vs. sedan a couple years before, but there was a long tradition of giving wagons half a refresh, since they had always been bought…

Could be a Covid precaution, and anyone lending him the keys would know his insurance is good. 

Sorry, idk why this double-posted. Kinja being kinja?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Elon’s fanbase and Twitter statements make me glad the natural-born citizenship clause in Article 2 is a thing.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Elon’s fanbase and Twitter statements make me glad the natural-born citizenship clause in Article 2 is a thing.

There were two NSU companies, the original prewar car division based in Heilbronn split off from the main motorcyle maker in Neckarsulm and eventually fell into building licensed Fiats as seen here. What had been the motorcycle division decided to branch back into cars in the late ‘50s with the Prinz, there was a…

(sighing) Acktshually... The VAZ-2101 was heavily reengineered for Soviet conditions. Thicker steel, heavier-duty suspension components, simpler but more effective brakes and so on. If Fiat had built a 124 pickup they probably would’ve started with the mods they made to the Lada. 

I’d build the current-gen 500 Abarth for the US market and headhunt some QC people from Toyota. Along with the people who specced actual amber-lensed rear turn signals for the kouki NCP91 Yaris and zenki ASA44 RAV4.