The best story in this book is the lost engine one. I am going off memory so I might be a little wrong.

Lauda allegedly coughed the lung up himself, pointed at it and said “Still more handsome than James Hunt” and walked out of the hospital.

Ford, please build this truck. This is the truck that would fit many people’s needs just fine. Even midsized trucks are too big for what I believe the majority of people need. Getting a small truck that gets decent gas mileage shouldn’t be that difficult. I don’t need to tow 2 tons. I just need the occasional bed to …

That sounds an awful lot like book-learnin’, son. You best watch yourself.

A guy runs a siding sales business. He drives around selling siding to folks.

It’s like a little jet pack hat.

Ugh, lets not. The last thing we need are idiots spray painting Dale’s number on their Silverados. Or Camrys.

Luxembourg: The Delaware of Europe.

Liechtenstein is the Hydrox to Luxembourg’s Oreo. While Liechtenstein may have come first, no one gives a shit because Luxembourg is just so much better. 

Fuck Luxembourg, the goddamn dime-store knockoff Liechtenstein.

CANYONEROOOOOO

Wow. Now I want to buy a Miata just to turn it into something amazing.

My current dd, a 2016 Audi A5 2.0t, has a couple of silly things...they are exactly the same as my 2010 version, too.

Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, February 7, 1993. It was -37 or so at daybreak, before the wind chill factored in. I went out to my 1987 Mazda B2200, managed to get the door unlocked, and upon opening it, the dome light plastic shattered from the immediate spike in bulb temperature. I got in, shut the door, and the…

You just tell them it’s your pet battery.

I’m Minnesotan, so I don’t use my horn. I stare at them passive aggressively and talk about them after they leave.

Same. Also brings back memories of having to place something heavy on top of the psx in order for it to read the disc later in its lifespan

I always find it most irksome that so many people at the time thought Kurt Cobain’s suicide was some kind of cultural watershed moment destined to define my generation and would go out of their way to tell me so. It wasn’t.

Halfa Romeo. Dur.