A twist on the hamburger story; a few years back one winter apparently a mouse got into my windshield washer reservoir and drowned, but I didn't know that...until the weather warmed up, and every time I'd hit the washers to clean my windshield I would be overwhelmed by the odor. When I finally made the connection and…

Probably 40 years ago I had a Huey, Louie, and Dewey comic book that involved some potion/invention that Gyro Gearloose had concocted that made the kids super smart. Anyway, the effects eventually faded, but there was a point where they were stuck on a train crossing in a standard transmission car facing imminent…

Pretty sure there must have been a pelican flying by just out of camera range.

Thinking out loud here, but wondering what the cost comparison/pros & cons might be for this versus using a spray/roll-on bedliner material? The cost may be crazy expensive to go the bedliner route, but if the prep were dramatically less, and might allow you to do one side of the garage this weekend, and then move…

I remember as a kid going with my dad to look at a used car some guy had; this was probably in the '70s and the car was from the '50s. My dad commented that the car didn't have any rust, and the guy said when he bought it he had the areas within the body sprayed with beeswax as a means of rustproofing. I'd never…

A submarine, you say?

How about improving on the 15 city/21 highway EPA mileage estimates? That's exactly the same as the 4WD V8 Chevy Avalanche, for comparison.

You could have a point...Audi was unstoppable back in the '80s.

I have a 2008 Jeep Patriot...turned over 100,000 miles July 3. It pretty much runs and drives as "well" as it did new. Other than a rain leak that showed up the 2nd week of ownership (bummer), and again when I had to replace the windshield, and one ball joint it has given me ZERO problems. My plan is to drive it…

Looks like the Camaro was fishtailing from the start; at first I was going to applaud the '55 driver for not hitting the Camaro at the end, but I think it's possible his own slide was caused by reacting to the Camaro's lack of control at the beginning of the run.

Perhaps a "Virginia is NOT for speed lovers" bumper sticker campaign is in order?

And says to himself "Not my circus. Not my monkeys."

I thought maybe a rogue tanker loaded with laundry detergent had run aground.

I've thought many times if I were to win the Indy 500 I'd want buttermilk, even though I'm not a huge fan...but it would seem like THE proper choice to really take in the moment. But now, knowing that Hinchcliffe was DENIED buttermilk as an option? Forget it, I'm not even going to try to qualify.

Just to keep this conversation a little more Jalopnik-y...assuming the house in the picture above is this woman's actual house, can anyone identify the car under the carport, for which we might assume this woman was willing to give her life to continue driving? It's looking kind of mid-'90s Dodge Spirit-esque to me,…

Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.

I know this isn't exactly what you're looking for, but for comparison here's a Patriot with a 2.4l engine. The thing I notice is not only are things compressed more in the Renegade in terms of fore/aft, but the 2.4l sits kind of deep in the Patriot, whereas it looks to be right at the surface on the Renegade.

Now let's replace the Sienna with a Mazda CX-9 and see if the outcome is any different.

Just a few weeks ago my wife and I were going somewhere and were stopped at a light. I was in front of the line and the light turned green, but I always look to make sure traffic is stopping at this particular light because it's on a downhill right-hand curve and you really can't see the light that far in advance. …