Most cars stop at being phallic...this one actually takes it a step further and mimics a spermatazoa. And with that wheel arrangement they both probably move in a similar fashion (lots of wiggling side-to-side).

Technically my El Camino was a gift, so I suppose the dumbest purchase was a 1982 Ford F350 I bought 6-7 years ago. I convinced my wife I "needed" a truck, and was willing to spend about $2k. I could find lots of beaters in that price range, but nothing with working AC (which is more important than paint in the…

They've also got a 3D view on Google Earth if you want to see the exterior (which admittedly isn't that impressive in this setting). I was just amazed that I was able to plug in Munich, Germany and then navigate by memory to the NNW of downtown and find it straight away, not having been there for 20+ years.

Last year my wife's aunt and uncle GAVE me a 1980 El Camino they'd owned since 1981, on the condition that if I ever sold it I'd have to split the proceeds with them. Of course, it'd been in a barn for the past 10 years...had a fire ant next in the steering wheel, dry-rotted tires, etc. etc. Thus far I've replaced…

There's some teeny-bopper group out now (I think maybe it's the Cheeta Girls) that have a song titled "Fuego" and in the lyrics they say the word over and over...every time I hear my kids listening to it, I get a flashback of the car I contemplated buying back around 1984. If I remember correctly, the hood of the…

So does my El Camino qualify as a 2-door, or as having been Caminoized? Big point difference; my first thought was that if something has been Caminoized it would be a non-factory modification...but if that's the case mine only scores a 138. Consider it Caminoized and my score jumps to 214. Or do I just split the…

Think of all the European manufacturers who have more efficient offerings back home, but who only trot out the mega-V6 & V8 supercharged versions over here. Now they're talking about bringing diesels and such over here...that ain't because the public is demanding them (though some of the public, myself included,…

It would be much easier for automakers to sell smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles if gas prices were high enough to "pull" customers into the dealerships. The approach of raising CAFE standards forces automakers to try to "push" small cars on a public that has no desire to buy them.

I remember seeing this in the theater when it came out and trying to identify the car. You can't tell so much from the video above, but if you watch the movie there's a scene where a guy bets one of these, and if you look at the A-pillar and roof you can tell it's a mid-70s GM sedan...I always figured it as the Chevy…

I guess this really doesn't qualify as a breakdown, but I always thought it was weird. Back in the '70s when those big trucker-style door mirrors were all the rage on pickups, my dad was driving his '67 Chevy C-10 home from work. He worked shift work, so it was probably in the wee hours one morning, when he rounds a…

In the original Frankenstein drove a Corvette...just saying.

Not sure at what age I started driving a tractor; only that it was an 8N Ford. When I was about 12 and big enough to reach the pedals (but not big enough to lift a bale of hay), I got to drive my uncle's early '70s Ford pickup around the field while pulling a trailer, while everyone else loaded it with hay. It was…

Not really car related, but in regards to the picture from Dirty Harry, if you watch this scene there's a movie theater marquee in the background at one point, and the movie showing is "Play Misty for Me". And I guess to make it car related, I think this is the one where he goes in to get a hot dog across the street,…

Back in the day a Johnson brand CB was THE status symbol. A quick google search doesn't turn up anything current on them, so I guess they died along with the craze.

TRY to run away is the key...looks like this guy hasn't done any running in a LONG time. I guess this is what happens when you outlaw dog fighting.

TTFN!

Ya'll act like you've never seen a car on concrete blocks with grass growing underneath it before...we've had that around here back as far as I can remember.

Ted Danson (w/hairpiece)

That's one tough MF (Massey Ferguson)!!

Makes me wish I was a dragon...