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I get a different daily every few years. I bought my 1989 Firebird because I used to have a ‘91 Camaro and really enjoyed it, but wanted a 3rd gen with pop-up headlights and power windows. It took a bunch of searching, but I found this 1989 Firebird with 88k original miles, 305 V8 and 5-speed in really good condition.

It’s a good thing that guy doesn’t need to give his son a bris.

Vista Cruiser is the ONLY answer here. It’s everything a wagon was supposed to be with awesome extra windows on top.

That’s an easy one. My 1980 Triumph Spitfire. It puts a smile on everyone’s face. It’s hard to be angry at all when you’re driving something that looks like an adorable happy frog.

You really, really wanted to use the word “decubitus,” didn’t you.

Is it possible Ford decided it wasn’t worth the hassle of trying to bypass the chicken tax by pulling the seats after importing it? It sounds like if it wasn’t selling enough to pay for the legal fight, it had to go. 

I have some nostalgia for my first car, a 1984 Subaru GL 4x4, but that engine sound is permanently etched in my brain 30 years later. Not even sure how to describe it, something like “wattle-lee-wattle-wattle-glglglglgl-wattle”

Turn signals that stay on a few extra seconds when you tap them for a lane change. Our Odyssey does this and I think our old Sienna did it too. It’s a nice little safety touch to make sure you fully signal a lane change.

I took my ‘68 Olds to a cruise-in on Saturday and there were plenty of awesome cars there - GTOs, Barracudas, a bevy of Corvettes, some rat rods, but I spent the most time talking with the guy who brought a 1987 Chevy Cavalier z24 that was his first car and still had nearly perfect original paint. That boxy little

I bought a 1963 Corvair Monza 900 convertible for $500, thinking it would be a fun project. I towed it home and started stripping paint and found out there wasn’t much actual Corvair under the paint. Just a lot of rust, bondo and poorly done metal patches. The more paint I scraped, the more piles of rust were

Can we just appreciate for a second how awesome the wheels are on the crash test machine?!

Ratting out my home state of Virginia. ALL OF VIRGINIA.

An MG that relies 100% on electronics? What could possibly go wrong?!

WANT. This is best C4. Still has the early C4 styling, still has the L98, but also has the 6-Speed?! YES.

There’s a classic urban legend that Chevy licensed the continued production of the 1957 Bel Air years after the car was long gone. It was easily disproven, since the Bel Air’s popularity didn’t really emerge until well after when the myth says the cars were produced, so there was no reason for Chevy to think they were

Ok, this is weird. My first memory is sitting in my father’s lap, steering his 1970 Skylark convertible in the parking lot at preschool. I LOVED that car. It shaped my love of cars and I was in tears when he traded it in for a Buick Riviera at a Virginia Beach dealership called Banner Buick in 1981 after owning it for

Joke’s on us. This car is superficially protected from anyone with ambitions of shoving bananas in those tailpipes, unless the banana guy takes a few seconds to look first.

The correct answer is to go the Carl Brashear route - have that foot amputated and resume driving manual with the proper prosthetic. Your welcome.

I personally experienced this when I owned a C4. It was a ‘91 in teal with a 6-speed and cloth seats. I narrowed down the production numbers and thought “Wow! This is rare!”

As the owner of a 1989 Firebird with a similar amount of Torx screw heads, I can confirm they are NOT fake. Maybe not all that necessary, but they are totally holding the plastic on the dash.