Your dad owned the Verkins?! That is seriously worth a write up. That car was reasonably well known in the late ‘40s/early ‘50s, Robert Verkins was a fairly prolific tinkerer, had several automotive-related patents.

Would that have been asbestos cloth?

No way, better feeling of privacy and usually more comfortable/thickly padded seats. 

They use an aubesian, its a device that’s sort of a long arm with a gripper on the end that holds the toilet paper. 

Of course I remember the Chrysler Laser, it was the only sports car to offer front wheel drive, gas charged shock absorbers, and the option of Mark Cross leather.

I feel like Karmann was on the right track with this thinking. Like the original Karmann-Ghia, this is a design that could have been adapted for a 20 year production run. Imagine 1980s-style plastic covered bumpers, blacked out chrome, updated alloy wheels, and maybe quad rectangular sealed beam headlights for the US.…

Ah, so this might explain why it seems to be getting more difficult to find a booth these days. 

Wait, did you shoot the bird or the car? 

This could be designed to escape the Corvette’s traditional market completely. Lot of young money in the Mid East and China, and they do buy a decent quantity of European sports cars. Whether that market is also already saturated and past its peak, and whether GM can export enough to make up for declines in the USDM,…

They’ll rebrand it as the “Corvette C8 II” halfway through production, then discontinue it once all the problems are corrected, declare that mid engine sports cars are a terrible idea, and not build another one for 30 years. 

Had to be very poor posture. 

I wonder how many more he could have sold if he had worked at a more sustainable pace, instead of burning himself out after 14 years. 

Especially in the days before the Internet. If a dealer scammed you in the ‘60s and ‘70s, the worst you could do was maybe write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper (no guarantee they’d even publish it, the car dealer would be a big advertiser, after all), write or call the manufacturer (who has little cont…

Elon Musk really needed to step out of the CEO role instead of the chairman spot. Bring in someone with experience running a mature manufacturing operation to handle the day to day.

That’s exactly where my mind went. At least Tesla isn’t committing outright fraud by double booking sales, but they are definitely artificially padding website sales figures at the expense of physical stores. 

Well, not until some company contacts you wanting you to come over to their office tomorrow afternoon for an interview, an hour away, when you’re scheduled to be at Tesla. I mean, sure, you can call in sick, but, there’s only so many times you can do that. Both because there’s a finite amount of unscheduled PTO time,…

Next step: Since we won't be stocking as much inventory in our stores, a portion of the floor space will be devoted to general merchandise. All employees will receive 75% of their salary in the form of Musk Bucks, redeemable exclusively at the Tesla Shop Powered by Amazon. 

Welp, I’d never thought I’d say this about a company, but I’m actually kind of glad Tesla uses a really terrible applicant tracking system for their job applications. 

Well, it has strayed from its roots. The first generation was and is an icon of postmodern design and will probably be exhibited in museums and racking up unreal auction prices 20-30 or so years from now.

My first boss out of college once attempted to steal his company car. Apparently, when he started with us in the 80s, he had kept the car from his previous employer and drove it for close to 6 months, only returning it when they threatened to report it stolen. It was a well known story around the office, even 30+…