Who the fuck cares?

I now have a better understanding of how “ordinary” citizens could go batshit crazy and start burning people in Salem.

Awesome! Many years ago (1975), my family happened to do a road trip through Virginia City, Nevada. Just outside of town were some road races. The parking lot was full of Ferraris, Lotuses, McLarens, etc. Very magical.

A friend who lives in London confirms that supercars of the oil czars’ progeny import their cars for the summer (too hot in Kuwait) and race up and down the streets. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…

The Audi 5000 started it. Then the original A6 and A4. When the 2d gen A6 and 1st gen A8 appeared, the transformation was essentially complete.

That is freakin cool. The battery on my old 5 series would die if you even thought about turning on a frickin reading light. Why the heck don’t more cars do that? It couldn’t cost too much.

What a great story, huh? I got choked up reading it.

Grumman F7F Tigercat

I wish I had. A good introduction for me has been, “Annals of the Former World,” by John McPhee.

In which case you file a claim under your UIM insurance. And did it take 9 months because your insurance company was lazy, or because they zealously pursued the deadbeat for months after those of faint heart would have given up?

There’s a difference between a “not at fault” accident (I.e., can’t tell who’s responsible), and “the other driver caused it” accident. Although it sucks to be in NJ; y’all do have really high rates.

If she’s at fault, then there will probably be no deductible, as your insurance company will try to get it from her insurance company. That’s why they call it...insurance.

GM also made license-built versions of the F4F Wildcat, known as FM[2,3]. But even more shocking, Fisher Bodies, after becoming part of GM in 1926, came up with the futuristic P-75 Eagle. It looked like the love child of the Bell P-39, and a Hawker Sea Fury (or maybe the Dornier Do335 Pfiel...?).

“Like I said, you need a fall guy”

In jail, but perhaps only after someone else is injured or killed. Knowing that the person who shot you is going to jail is not much comfort.

Guns don’t scare me. People with guns who want to do dumb things scare me.

Really? How many people need to be killed to qualify as a massacre in your book?

In the still showing the reverse lights, check the position of the bumper guards. Those seem to match up more with the Escort than the Chevette.

If that’s black rubber above the bumper, the license plate light wouldn't reflect from it as much as it seems to in the photo. First car I thought of was Escort hatch.

Good list, but would add Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor.”