Same vibe......

I once went on a road trip with my sister and her three female friends. (Long story, don’t ask.) At the end of it, I knew everything there was to know about women’s plumbing issues. On the other hand, I can now cruise the “feminine products” aisle at the store without any concern. Thank you, ladies. Mrs. Orca also…

These were essentially sawn-off Buick Rivieras, especially from an interior standpoint, and how it tied into the (related) Cadillac Allanté. The story of the Reatta’s gestation is fascinating, truly. It essentially boils down to the fact that the car was conceived as a low-volume project and went so unnoticed that no…

Step 1: Talk him down a few hundred bucks

Can’t tell you how many times I’ve caught a fatigue crack on my 8 hour pre-grocery store drive 500-point inspection in my honda civic. I do it every time I go anywhere, it’s only an extra days labor to any chore.

“It appears that the crack on my part had been propagating for quite some time”

I get the proposed use case for these as a “city car”, although for $9k I don’t know why I wouldn’t buy a Prius C or something else with a touch more utility and better gas mileage. Or an EV if you have a place to charge at night.

That receiver is weird. Since it is behind the license plate, does that mean if you have a bike rack you are not displaying your license plate?

Torch, a fine idea for the swan song on the Internal Combustion Engine and it actually makes sense business wise - stop/freeze all development on ICE technology and offer a standard package until the brand is electrified.

I don’t know how much it helps. It saves on the development costs but it also puts a major risk on the industry - imagine some fundamental design problem that instead of being in 100k cars is in 1000k cars and requires a mass recall. That’s what dependence on Takata created.

Of course this was the first article I read today. Never change, torch. Never change.

I was a kid in the 70s. Every hotwheel car I had was like this. For two reasons.

Ugly looks better rolling than shiny stuck on the side of the road.

It was sent back in time to kill John Connor.

So $4500 is the new $3000 as far as fuggit money and car purchases right? This thing is nice enough to run to cars and coffee, cheap enough you could run errands in it and not worry about the occasional scuff, and Mon dieu is it quirky and French.  Easy nice price, and I would use it to run and get Le coffee and Le…

I hate the stockpilers and the way the internet has enabled them. Let me just take a minute to yell at some clouds here, but I liked the rounds of going to car markets and street markets to find my car parts. The hunt for the perfect part was as much part of owning a classic as driving the finished car. Now everything…

Bizarrely this is the second time this year that I have seen one of these and not only on the interwebly doodah thingamajig. Fewer than 1000 were built and almost none with a tow hitch, I think five or six (yes I helped someone sell one), the tow hitch is for.........................

So I had this guy who stopped into look at buying my truck. Took it for a test drive, pointed out the problems and he said he’d think about it.

I like to get a different daily driver every few years so I have some great ones. This is my favorite: In 2008, I had an NA Miata that I decided to sell. It was worth maybe $3,000 at the time. I posted it on Craiglist and got an email from a local eye doctor who specialized in LASIK surgery offering me LASIK in…