I sure hope that the old Chevy wasn’t sold to IIHS by a guy who kept it in that awesome condition for a lot of years. Reminds me of the guy who sold his XKE to the producers of the Ralph Fiennes / Uma Thurman Avengers movie, and went into the premier not knowing his mint condition car was shredded by robotic wasps.  I…

Tune in next week for more Smaug on Smog.  

Also it would have looked ridiculous when open. 

Even worse—the Lotus Elan. Yes that is Diana Rigg in The Avengers. Weirdly not all Elans had this atrocious design feature. 

Or, “do you feel lucky, Pink”? Because there’s no way that car is “red.”  And apologies to P!nk, who actually deserves any good luck that comes her way, unlike Mustang Pink/Punk. 

I think you nailed it. I was beginning to despair that no one would chime in or even mention what car was involved, which used to be a given in these kinds of stories. Hopefully there are still enough experts left in the ranks next time we are tasked with helping solve a hit and run based on random trim pieces.…

GM decides to bring back a brand, and it’s Hummer? Would much prefer that they resurrect Pontiac. Hybrid Fieros and Firebirds and Bonnevilles and...

C’mon guys, what kind of car is it that I would totally buy for its crashworthiness? Looks like a Lexus IS or or similar. 

I’m putting in 220, 221, whatever it takes.

California law says you’re supposed to stay 3 feet from bicyclists (many of whom, I have to say, have an annoying habit of riding exactly on the fog line and thus eating into the lane for cars, even when there is tons of room to on the shoulder). But that law presumes, wrongly, that the average person has any idea of…

Bingo. It’s too narrow in general for how people really drive and the average width of cars, but that line does draw you in. They could have made it out of something with more give that would just bounce back. Like the old slot car guardrails. 

Well there are ways to deal with the problem of these clogging up the skies, fight fire with—flamethrowers, and little bombs on parachutes, and machine guns, and...pay attention, 007...

Contigency fees are what levels the playing field if they don’t, and here there is a viable defendant and evidence of liability.

“It’s been a while but in my early engineering days that upper end of the hardness scale got used a lot.”  Jeez, be a little more subtle in your flirting. 

For anybody trying this at home, in addition to worrying about a 600 pound animal ruining your day with his sheer mass, hooves, or teeth, also don’t spend time sawing through or polishing antlers without proper breathing protection / ventilation. A deer-hunting cousin of mine got severely ill from ingesting particles…

What’s that button for to the right of the recirculation one? It looks like the front passenger getting stabbed with a scimitar while the guy in the back seat gets to carry the Tesseract in his lap.

It’s all about intimidating the person who dares to be in front of you that you are going to tailgate because you have the biggest baddest grilliest truck there is and how dare they be in your way. And then you can also blast them into blindness with your supernova headlights filling their rear window.

Always liked the Fire Arrow, am still waiting for one to pop up on Bringatrailer—not that I’d bid on it, just want to see one. I think the Pinto Cruising Wagon is the most iconic, if not perhaps as inspired by a particular theme as the Arrow Jet.

I was stunned to learn a while back that they actually produced the Ital Design Aztec.