Uhh...

2nd gear: perhaps Takata should take a hard look at its core mission....

My first soley-owned vehicle was a 72 Westfalia: I have much love/nostalgia for VW bus. That said, that Bulli looks to me like the unholy offspring off a Soul & a Countryman. Or a Flex on low-dose PCP. no love there from me

CP! Love(d) me some EA82 wagons, BUT. That rust....what he didn’t show pic of is the rear unibody ‘framerails’ that the mustache bar locating the rear diff are attached to. You go over a 10” rock with a rear tire and the link collapsed up into the body. Instant low rider!

Bias-ply also were way more susceptible to the cold. Toward the end of a truely hellish week in Iowa City(highs never above freezing, lows -20 and down to -50 wind-chill) Dad>had< to drive the Ark-50s Ford wagon to the store. Battery inside overnight & block heater meant it started up, but all 4 tires were frozen…

Michelin? You mean the comercial where camera is looking up thru glass at the tire slicing thru water?

While I don’t enjoy working on my friend’s PT GT (yah: they stuffed a turbo in there-and the amount of heat-shielding makes it a knuckle-slicer!), it has a decent seating position and awesome HVAC system. Lots of space with seats down, and acceptably fun to drive in a manual.

My BIL already does this. They had a 5-series wagon in silver on which the po’s wife had torn the lower air dam. Fairly vertical crack. He carefully drilled equipment-distant holes on either side and did a ‘baseball x-stitch’ all the way up in red wire. Looked good.

On behalf of Quakers, I’d just like to say that just because we sit quietly until moved to speak, doesn’t mean we ain’t >>thinkin<< bout gettin some!

I’m in SW Virginia: deer central. My idea is for local governments to hand out paintball guns and luminescent/florescent paintballs. Encourage people to fire at local deer >from moving cars<. 1) deer associate sound of car with pain.

Would be fun to know what percentage of this readership get that reference(without Google!)

Ponderous, slow, wallowy...that said, it speaks to my high school years. I still have the Mr Bill plate and piece of the lower dash fro my buddy’s. Auto, tho. My knee broke the piece of dash when we missed a turn one nite. I broke the windshield, too-kept wondering why the rescue squad guy was shining his light in my…

In my 82 300TD, the right marker lights randomly work/don’t. The gauge lights sometimes come on with key in ignition-and sometimes don’t come on with the headlights.

There’s an Astro van in Franklin Co, Va that’s been turned into a pickup. The guy said a tree fell on it. He did a decent job-until his son bought it off him and ran a huge stack up thru the bed as if he could roll coal.

Actuall in-the-wild sighting of one yesterday! Very rare beast nowadays in Va. AND it was niether terminally rusted nor absolutely pristine: decent daily-driver looking. Made my day

He had a passenger. Endangering yourself is one thing; doing something that puts your girlfriend in danger is another.

Thanks for voicing this. I used to hate on ‘Ricers’. Saw massive A-pillar Gauge sets, seemingly basketball-sized tachs in automatics, and the cute tiny painted rear drum inside a cheap airy 18” rim just laughable.

This! A thousand times: THIS! We >>need<< a test that determines current impairment level. Almost 30 years ago while a high-rise window-cleaner, I made a stupid mistake an hour after getting high at lunch break. I can still tell the weather with my shoulder, and I could have been gravely injured. I have NO problem…

So, I’m gonna get some hate here....WTH is the appeal of these things? They are massive thrones. I saw a couple on one several years back and the rear seat had cup holders in the armrests! Also looked like they were wearing cool-suits hooked to the ‘Wing. I just don’t get it at all: why not buy a small convertable?

Uh, sorry to be that guy, but...see my username. The Baldwin is only a great piano at the extreme high-end. The hand-built ones. The rest come from the same factory in China that makes Hallet Davis-and the very cheapest ones are crappy indeed!