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reverberocket is nipping the apex..and gently blowing in it's ear.
reverberocket

+1. Its like someone said “It’s too safe riding a motorcycle these days, I want to drive something dangerous.”

This is part of the reason I sold my JDM Mini

I was going to say the car my dad bought me, a Triumph Spitfire, the sibling of the MGB. This was the early eighties, so the trucks weren’t quite as big or plentiful as they are today, but it was still one of the smallest cars in any parking lot.

Mitsubishi makes everything from bicycles to jets.

I personally met him back in 1997 for the debut of Super Speedway when he was touring with the IMAX show car and again in 2019 at a Jalopnik party in Austin for the Indycar race (the article Alanis King wrote for that event has a picture of him and I together as the lead image). His age has not made him less excited

Hmmm. It’s been awhile, but as I recall, Herman lost the Munster Coach in a drag race to a ringer who scammed him. Grandpa built Dragula to win it back.

Cabin and Engine air filters. I swear I’ve had the filters sitting in my trunk for weeks waiting to be installed, but I just kept putting it off. The fact that it’s so easy and quick actually made it easier to put off - “Oh I’ll just change those real quick tomorrow before work”

This is about FOUR DOOR cars. Two doors are not expected to have roll-down windows in the back. A four-door is.

In Malawi we had a JDM minivan where the window on the sliding door opened, but the window on the right side only pivoted out about 4cm. Fortunately it had uber powerful a/c with vents in the rear roof and a separate rear thermostat.  

I grew up in a Subaru so I wasn’t aware this was an issue... until my dad bought a Plymouth Voyager. Hoooooly frick it could get hot in that third row. I remember resting my head against the “open” flap window and wishing it would open just an inch wider. Litteral torture.

..but the rear windows did vent, which was, at least something.

I was once told the reason most vans and even SUVs have fixed rear windows is that they are bonded to the vehicle like windshields are and like windshields, act like a component of the vehicle’s structure. Load bearing glass...

Louisiana State Police called the officers’ action ‘awful but lawful.’

The amount of rusty material he deals with, David should have the holy syringe of St. Tetanus in his home reliquary.   

Go full Toyota and tell her it keeps you grounded to the ground.

Well, fuck. That escalated quickly.

I’m pretty sure the the Ford Frontenac was the most eventful car ever sold in Canada at the time. Marketing literature confirms.

This was a close second. I’m showing my age.

It could be this. Because they’re thirsty in Atlanta, and there’s beer in Texarkana.

Could it be anything else..?