Why bother with going all the way up to 35,000 feet? Sounds a lot like an ekranoplan so why not just build one if those?

Tex Johnston rolling the 707 prototype in front of the assembled representatives of the worlds airlines at the 1955 Seafair hydro races has to be right up there. Plus once he’s done it once he buzzed the barge, pulled up and did it again just in case anyone had missed seeing it the first time.

There is one place besides Cape Canaveral that a space shuttle was launched from…

Despite the superior numbers of the 2016 I’d take the 1986 over it any day. Now if Toyota started importing the HiLux I might change my tune...

I had a rental Cavalier once when my Neon was in the body shop. I drove it up skiing and on the way back home in the dark I suddenly saw the inside of the car light up bright red! I thought oh heck,I’ve been caught speeding but suddenly the lights were gone. A little further down the hill it happened again. It was…

Interesting, I like the ’78 facelift best of all of that gen Camaro though none of the Camaros come close to any of their equivalent Firebird twins when I comes to looks (sorry!).

I think the Burritometer needs to be paired with a “gas gauge” for after consumption!

My dad had a 1923 Winton that some previous owner had installed an altimeter in. The car is long gone but the altimeter is in a box in my garage somewhere. Sadly we never finished the restoration (started in my high school auto shop class!) but it looks great now under the new owner.

Another Studebaker example was the 1957 Studebaker Hawk which morphed into the 1958 Packard Hawk.

There’s no better example then the Studebaker Starliner which was facelifted into the fish-nosed President in 1955. Thankfully Studebaker realized their mistake and in turn facelift it again into the 1956 Hawk and again in 1962 to the awesome Gran Turismo Hawk.

I was going to mention the Vagabond too as it was 100% the same idea, just 60 years ago,

I think my dad and Jay would have gotten along swimmingly. Looking at the cars that my family has owned there are probably at least a dozen models that Jay has in his collection, if not more. None of them are literally cars that we owned although his Doble steam car formerly belonged to a good friend of my father’s.

I don't know, something tells me that hipsters might appreciate the Gremlin...

Well first of all we are basically arguing which Kardassian is the most respectable :-). That said my dad’s ‘72 Pinto Sprint was a decent handling car though lacking in much power. It was the first car I ever drove so I am well aware of its pluses and minuses. Still by ‘74 dead Vegas were littering the Chevy…

I'd take either the Pinto or the Gremlin over the Vega. At least with the other two the motor will last over 60,000 miles.

The Corvair was a far, far better car than the Vega and parts are much easier to come by however.

I am happy to see the 1922 Essex get its due! In the days when the Model T touring was the car of the messes it really was revolutionary. It was fully closed with a rudimentary heater, 3-speeds with a clutch, a reliable starter, a vacuum windshield wiper and pretty much every control located where you’d expect it to…

My brother did that more than once. 1966 Mustang GT fastback. My first car was a Corvair and somehow I managed to hang on to it to this day without wrecking it :-).

I’m pretty sure that thought the country it’s ok to generalize hipsters...

That’s why I took my test in my mom’s W108 Mercedes rather than the ‘64 Continental I actually ended up driving for the next several months. I should have used my dad's Pinto though because even with the Merecedes I blew the parallel parking because I'd never done it on poles before.