Not disagreeing with you at all - Mine never flew off, but his Corvair also looks like it’s been sitting in grass for a while so there’s plenty that could crop up. 

Actually racing the Corvair was a plus from my perspective - ‘63 was the last year before they fixed the suspension issue Nader bitched about (and blew out of proportion), so the fact that he raced it means he won’t screw up while driving it and dealing with the rear wheels’ tendency to turn in.

As a former Corvair owner, I have to disagree on the Corvair. Fix up the truck. It may be a gas guzzler, but a Corvair is even worse as a daily. I used my ‘65 as a daily, and even with late Corvair improvements like it’s Corvette-sourced suspension it was still an adventure getting anywhere. Most Corvair owners will…

I think you just accidentally confirmed that the Chinese are playing Mario Kart with their elderly.

Worth a listen. If Jalop is cool with me linking it here:

I still want to see you do 18-holes with this thing and show golf carts how it’s done.

Mom! I wanted to Peugeot!

I feel like now you need to start ordering cheap almost-cars from every country you can to see how many different languages you can become a folk hero in. I nominate Namibia next.

Thanks for this article. It’s a great case for ending traffic stops - however I’m still not sure about the alternatives. Public transportation is not favored in a post-COVID world, and I have major problems with speed cameras - particularly that they violate your right to due process and fail to connect the infraction…

These are from the owners manual to my 1968 Olds Cutlass:

I’ll try to send up a better pic later, but the rear side marker lights on my ‘68 Cutlass are Olds rocket emblems with the light integrated. Yes, it’s awesome.

I once got out of a ticket thanks to not putting my front plate on. I had a 1991 Corvette (L98 engine, 6-speed, really, really fun car). I was in the middle of a train of cars doing 75 in a 65, and we were following each other a bit too close. I see the lights flashing behind me and I pull over immediately. When I…

The real hero here is the “Mastercraft Avenger G/T” tire, which took all that weight without popping like a balloon.

Owl: (puffs) Like... what if... what if... when we are saying “WHO”, we’re really asking... like... Who?

I’m sure they keep trying to add them, it’s just that when the engineers ask for more screens, we end up with more of them on the dashboard.

Very interesting that it’s HB “Toby” Halicki’s wife that enforces the copyright. Halicki was the star of the original Gone in 60 Seconds, as well as the Junk Man. He made movies just to do outrageous stunts and race (and wreck) cars. The original Eleanor features in both Gone in 60 Seconds and has a cameo on The Junk…

As an anti-theft device, I give it a 7.5 out of 10.

Not sure what the big deal is here - when I was in high school I had a black car with dark gray interior that would do this everyday and that was in the 1980's.

He did. I could only find one shop in town that would do it, and this guy had a ridiculous amount of experience. He picked the best spot to make sure the wheel dished from the outside, stayed round, and he went over the rest of the wheel and fixed all the dings and curb rash. I don’t race the car and if I did, I…

Clearly a thing of beauty.