I was at a Dodge dealer, back around 1996, looking at a Viper in the body shop with a fully crunched nose. The mechanic told me the car owner’s son crashed it, in “THE DRIVEWAY”. Way too much power in that sumbitch.

I had my ‘84 Turbo Laser (does “Turbo Laser” sound cool, or what?) up to 120 mph on the interstate (5 fwy in central Cal) once, at 3am, clear of traffic. The needle was still going up, when I chickened out. I guess I was thinking about normal, worn street tires popping at 125+ mph. The CHP report would have read…

I read about one guy who won drag races with a Turbo Omni with the stick. He maxed the psi from the turbo, and made his own water injection using parts from a fishtank aerator system. Real cheap horsepower, and smoked all the competition.

Maybe they were going for an”Aston Martin Lagonda” look. That was a cool car.

Around 1999, there was a Chinese restaurant in LaCanada, California, near where we lived, named “Poo Ping Palace”!!! I shit you not. I wish I’d taken a picture of the sign.

I actually drove a “short bus” for 20 years. 85% of the passengers were awsome, nice people, once you got to know them. Kind of like the rest of the population. 15% of the NORMAL, world population are total assholes. No difference.

I agree. My ‘84 Turbo Laser, bought used from a dealer in ‘88, had been partially repainted by the previous owner. The parts not repainted started to fade quickly. Here’s a list of weird, sad, and wonderful features of this car:

You’d also remember getting smacked in the face with a 2x4 stud, and you’d rather forget both incidences. I would take the Nagari over the 2x4 smack. Anything that resembles Italian beauty is better than frog ugly.

Make that a pit of angry beavers.

I vote for the “Jetsons”. The sound their flying cars made whizzing by.

If you like normal, old fashioned looking cars, then yeah, the Cherokee front end would offend you. If you like modern, different, uncoventional, even daring, designs, then the 2014 Cherokee is perfect (front end at least).Kind of like the Citroen DS 21. So far ahead of it’s time, all the other cars looked like Ford…

The Cherokee tranny is designed to adapt to the driver’s driving style over a period of time. We’ve got 40k miles on our 2014 Cherokee Limited, with zero problems, and the trans is perfect. It’s probably not a good car for rental use, since so many different people drive it, especially when it’s got low miles. Most…

Reminds me of the mid 70's kit cars. Like the”Bradley GT”, or “Sterling GT”, both based on VWs. The Bradley was truly hideous. I pitied anyone who spent time and money on that rolling fiberglass crapfest. Bad taste has no limits.

Exactly. And a cheesy looking, sorta-wanna-be exotic car. After living through the 70's holocaust of ugly, copycat exotic kit-cars, this thing is no better. Maybe, if they made a copy of the Maserati Bora, or the DeThomaso Mangusta, then you’d have a winner. But a Pantera? Not that IT was ugly, but this thing doesn’t…

I have a similar opinion about vacations in winter. The writer says you should drive a crappy track car, so you can appreciate your humdrum daily driver more.
When we lived in Colorado, with the snow, icy roads, and frozen face parts evety winter, we longed to be in some tropical climate, far from the thoughts of…

Used my ‘67 VW Squareback to pull stumps, a car 1/2 off a cliff, and an suv up a hill. Probably heated the clutch a bit, but replaced it once in 12 years of ownership. Also jumped it on dirt roads. One jump did sorta almost break the transaxle mounts, but fixed the resulting leaks of gear oil with JB-Weld. That car…

I was talking to a TSA agent at DIA once about what a hard job they must have, with all the people giving them a bad time, etc. He said,”Yeah, it’s tough, but to cheer things up a little, we thought up some new meanings for TSA: Thousands Standing Around, Take Shit Away, and Tough Shit Asshole.” The last one’s best.

I’ve seen 2 VW type van crashes. The first was a late ‘60s VW van that had rear ended a large car. The VW’s back seats had torn loose, and the passengers had gotten out, looking pretty shook up. The driver however, was trapped inside by the crushed front of the VW bus. His legs were jammed/crushed by the shoved in…

This is Zorro, embracing the headrest in my PT Cruiser. Zorro does tricks, like fetching and dancing, and likes to go for walks on his leash. Sorry if this picture came out sideways. You can watch Zorro in action on YouTube, under: “A Cat Named Zorro”. 

“JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY”, at Fox News, used in the same sentence??