One last from me. Photo taken at the Osage service stop of the Ojibwe Forests Rally. What can I say, I like simple wheels.

@FiveLiters: In my hometown there was an orthodontist named Dr. Fuchs. You can bet what his nickname was among us who were teenagers needing dental work at the time.

@Goingincirclez: I'm not sure the wheels are 100% right for the '68 Cutlass actually (the car had steel wheels w/ hubcaps originally... I know this because my dad bought it) but something similar was available: [www.oldcarbrochures.com]

@Benito ~ I still drive excitement.: And as usual Pontiac had to take something good and replace it with an abomination. When the 3-spokes with the fiddly little Y came out I was appalled. Still am.

I'm a fan of the old Pontiac rally wheels, myself.

@Goingincirclez: And for a better combination (IMO), take the wheels back a few years...

@Goingincirclez: I wonder which one's flatter? (Hard to tell with different photo angles and all...)

My '96 T-bird qualified but I kept it anyway. I'd have had to move up to 22 MPG combined or better which would have practically meant giving up either RWD or seating for 4 adults. Admittedly I'm irrationally attached to the car being that I've had it for 11 years now.

@Z71: This is totally random... but, I saw the word "Execution" in your post and my first thought was "didn't Ford stop making those?"

@Formerlythegreatestdriver: Ooh that's pretty. What is it?

@MR42HH: And imagine what happens when the struts fail. BONK.

1999 Dodge Charger. Hot RWD with '69 Charger cues FTW.

@alexander_the_car_salamander: I like "Bikelopnik" or some such myself, but yes. And to echo crinklesmith, it is indeed good.

@brian10x: Yes, "sport", as in "sportsman"... i.e. hunting, fishing, and the like. Before SUVs became wussified into station wagons, they were made for guys to take back into the woods to get to that great fishing hole or that nook in the mountains where the elk were.

This is making Cass County's search look easy. A young lady was riding her bicycle north of Fargo a few nights ago, with all kinds of lights and everything... douche in a Grand Prix or some such hits her anyway and leaves a whole mirror unit behind. (Fortunately the bicyclist here got away with just injuries.)

I wonder how hard the Evergreen's output hits? I hope it wouldn't be like this.

@DieselDutchman: Their study did find that 70% of the risk was from the truck traffic. Thanks for the background on the ships though, I knew they were dirty but didn't know they were that nasty.

@Flathead Smith: I'm one of those millions, my whole working life has been either operating diesel machines or designing them. But its not like CARB and EPA are just coming up with these requirements to make the vehicle or machine users' lives miserable. A parallel example is off-highway Tier 4 which has a 40:1…

@Flathead Smith: You don't have to be breathing straight from the tailpipe to have increased rates of respiratory trouble... here's an article discussing a study in the San Francisco bay area, for example. [www.sfgate.com]

@diskreet: Or "I like it when people get respiratory diseases and die young". Diesel particulate emissions are a significant health hazard which would be greatly reduced if people would just let the 2007 and 2010 compliant systems do their job.