Both cars you mentioned, aside from lack of all the modern airbags, were considered very safe cars at the time, BEFORE any frame rust set in, that is. Now they are just old cars, with a lot of seals, tubes, and components which will soon be needing replacement. Price out what an exhaust system for that Merc will cost…

Bullshit. Back in the early 60's, my Dad’s Safari wagon regularly his the 90mph speed limit on the Kansas turnpike. We lived in Colorado back then, and the interstates in the east part of the state had no speed limit at all. Most people went 80 or faster. Gas was 19 cents a gallon; who cared if you only got 11 mpg at…

I’m still old enough to remember when a lot of cars still did not have seat belts. My dad had a 55 chevy coupe with the 6 and a 3-on-the-tree that came without belts, and he installed them (he was ahead of the curve for automotive safety..). I remember a neighbor kid who was injured when he fell out of his dad’s late…

Over at a Subaru forum I frequent, this discussion has been going on for a while. There are a couple of brands that it seems are worth considering, one which gives maybe a 50% increase in total lumens, and is only about $70/pair, and another that gives much more light, but costs $150/pair. Any others, it seems, give a…

Usually a banana works well, and it’s about $1 cheaper......

I have neighbors who have a parrot that imitates their old telephone ring. They would be out in the yard, hear the phone ringing, run inside only to find there had been no call. They had to replace that landline phone (going back a few years), but even today, 15 years later, that bird still does the phone ring...

Yes, but people add them back in, then use them all the freakin’ time, like maybe they wired them in to the ignition circuit.

Yes, it sure looks like a Morris Minor wagon to me. Quite a few were imported to the US.

Yeah, but Volvo owners are better educated. Mercedes owners, too. It’s only the @$$hats in BMW’s and A4's that don’t have a clue...

Well, “gage” has entered our lexicon now. It used to bother me, but I made my peace with it....

Well, as a person who has a CDL, I can attest to the fact that I have almost always covered the brake when shifting into reverse or any forward gear. Try passing a CDL road test by sitting still in traffic any other way; you’ll fail!

OK, this is just ridiculous. Will the bible now be edited for the several references to masters and slaves? Will English history be changed so that we will learn about Edward of Woodstock, the ‘very deep indigo knight’? Or the sinking of the ‘very lightly colored ship’ in 1120?? 

The problem with Iowa would be headwinds. Probably a good one will reduce your range by half.

Beautiful car with an awful name. What sort of affectionate nickname can you give it? “I’m going for a ride in the Flam”.........

Reverse Grid Placement? You mean “everybody smacks up at turn 1"? No thnaks....

Oh, proofreading went into the shitcan about the time people stopped buying actual magazines. Now any borderline illiterate with an opinion can call himself a ‘journalist’. Probably the nearest thing to editing they do anymore is to run it past SpellCheck....

Have you seen how many of these things are involved in accidents with ‘real cars’ everyday in China? It seems most of their boulevards have a bicycle/scooter lane on the outside, but trying to cross the main road looks like a game of Russian roulette.

Four-door Cords used to have interchangeable doors, LF/RR and RF/LR...

There are a ton of Chinese dashcam/crash videos on Youtube (with one poster adding a new one every_single_day), and I’ve noticed a certain model that looks like your car several times, but usually with only a single front tire. These models invariably flip over when hit by a ‘real car’.

I dunno.....if even the manufacturer calls if “Forgone”, how good could it be?