I knew several families who had these back in the day (the Pontiac Grand Prix variant was also big). The nicest one was about this color, but it had a two-tone treatment that included a darker tan color on the front and rear fender areas. I know it sounds nasty, but it was actually really nice (and they were the…

I'm seriously thinking about converting my '80 El Camino to run on battery power...odds are it'd perform better than the anemic 229 V6 under the hood now, and the lousy aerodynamics should provide enough noise (at least at higher speeds) to warn pedestrians. I just wonder if I can fit the batteries in the "smugglers…

This is a prime example of why you should NOT buy a set of those "truck antlers"; those guys should have known better.

Oh, and when the description says "THIS CAR PASSES SMOG NO PROBLEM!" does that mean it passes the smog test, or that it passes smog in the same way I pass gas?

I remember at the time these came out one of the standard features was a rear window defroster...the joke was it was installed to keep your hands warm while you pushed it.

On the bright side, it does lower the center of gravity...so would that make it safer?

The lady that took care of me and my brother when we were tots during the summers had one of these; she'd traded in about a '64 Falcon for the Maverick. Not sure the year, but as I recall it was green, and had a great black and white plaid interior (which I'm pretty sure is the reason I really like the Interlagos VW…

I've been married 20 years so maybe I'm not the best person to comment on this topic, but my approach (when single, of course) was to look for hot chicks in cars that ranked somewhere beneath mine, figuring the chick would see me as a step up. Granted, your options/chances increase exponentially as you move up to a…

To me the appeal of the Volt has never been about its look; it's all about the drive train. I think GM is wise to make the Volt look unique; no one wanders into a Toyota dealership and is attracted by the looks of a Prius, only to find out the car is a hybrid. And honestly, they don't necessarily have to sell a ton…

I grew up in the late '60s in a rural area (and that's rural for Arkansas, which is really saying something). My folks had (still have) cattle and a fair amount of land, and my dad would often need to mow down the weeds in a certain pasture here or there with a bush hog attached to the back of a tractor (like those…

When I got my first real job out of college I bought an '89 GT (closing them out for the new design '90 models, which weren't nearly as cleanly designed as this one). It wasn't a necessarily fast car (fastest I ever got it was @ 115 MPH (on a closed course naturally, and I am a professional driver...got a commercial…

@JSmith53: It's when you stop emulating MacGyver and start acting like McVeigh that you run into problems.

When Dale Jr. is driving the Camaro, did he say something about it having too much body roll? I don't have a DVR so I couldn't play it back and see for certain, but it didn't sound positive to me.

But then I'd have to drive around with a sticker on the back glass of my pickup with that little boy peeing on himself...it just wouldn't be the same.

Having purchased a Jeep Patriot at the end of 2007, I have to confess that every month when I write my check to Chrysler Financial I get a weird feeling like I should be able to use it as a tax deduction as a donation to charity. I actually like the Jeep a lot, as it's getting even better gas mileage than I expected,…

Several years ago a friend of mine was upside-down on a Caravan, which he hated. He and his wife started looking for a replacement, and when they picked out something new they got to the F&I office and learned how bad off they were really were. They thought about walking away, but then somebody at the dealership…

That's just fowl.

The bus from "The Gauntlet"...maybe not the fastest or most agile, but it took a beating and kept on running.

What's a "big hat, no cattle"-type to do?

A friend of mine took a leak on an electric fence once; he discovered the hard way (or in this case, the extremely flaccid way) that salt water is an excellent conductor of electricity.