Airbags? I think not. Hydraulics is more like it... for both. ;-)

“New Jersey neighborhood feels the Bern this election season.”

An actual butt dyno.

When I first started riding, I yearned for a Roadcrafter, but lacked the extra several hundred bucks to buy one. The budget-ish option— Firstgear stuff—their lined Kilimanjaro textile jacket and HT overpants never failed me in the rain, even when caught in some serious downpours a long ways from home. Gore-Tex lined…

This Russian woman was Focused on defrosting her windows rapidly.

Would have been nice, but no, it was definitely a sedan.

I’m glad that you were able to be resilient enough to make it through that experience and find/make your own family of choice—often far stronger than the one you’re born into.

Poor schmuck got knocked onto his biben-bum.

How can it be that room that you’re not allowed in? I mean, there’s no plastic covers over the seats and trim, like at Grandma’s place!

How does the Ape compare to a vintage Cushman Truckster, driving-wise? Might be a good comparo.

JDM, yo.

Just porous one out for the homies... all the way to the ground.

Due to a broken karst, the cars were broken. Very meta.

“bowel-motion setup” = “BoMotion” in VAG-speak.

“Clean until proven dirty,” ya’ know?

But original California blue or black plates (not the new reproductions) confer instant old/classic car status since the last of the blue plates were issued in the mid-1980s (‘85-’86, IIRC).

Maybe that’s how the 11foot8.com neighbors can prevent more crashes under that particular bridge...

I seriously shopped one of these when they were new. It drove nicely, with decent chassis dynamics. Power from the V-8 was all right, but it felt cheap and plasticky inside. I had the feeling that the leather seats would disintegrate within five years of moderate-to-heavy use—cheap-even-by FoMoCo standards; the trunk…

The rock and roll version of the story of the Sullivan Brothers, by the band “Caroline’s Spine”:

So THAT’s who’s been filling in for the Trunk Monkey.