can we get a list of things that aren’t illegal to have/do with a car?  at the rate of the laws these days, it seems like it would be shorter.  almost short enough to fit in a slide show.

i’m totally sane.  my in-head psychiatrist told me so.

the week i decide to sell it.

those damn analog ballast gauges!

if it hasn’t happened in the last month on facebook, it has never happened.

yeah, but this is exactly the 10 year story on how my local racetrack got shut down.

my cars can’t function without a “TOP 10 MUST-HAVE-THINGS TO BUY FOR YOUR CAR, YOU WON’T BELIEVE NUMBER 2!” slideshows. it just refuses to start until i bring in that ad revenue.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

look, if i’m buying a car with a specific feature, i expect to use that specific feature anytime i want, however i want.

doesn’t matter.  in this case, it’s ballast.

you can’t just scrap a car chassis without legal documentation. but you can scrap parts of a chassis.

love the exterior.  hate the interior.

that sounds like what i was fighting with 5 years ago the last time i bought a vehicle, so what’s changed?

none.  im a perfect driver.  just like my grammer.

i think the ven diagram of the people that know it’s a flower vs the people that think of using a broom handle a specific way would be pretty clear cut.

the list of GM vehicles that haven’t set off airbags randomly while cornering too hard/offroading is about 50/50 of every model they make at this point.

yeah, when the RS was noted to have issues on the track, it definitely tempered any interest i had. at least any interest left over that wasn’t destroyed by fords insistence of using a brake-based LSD solution on a track-focused spec that could’ve easily commanded another $5k msrp without an issue for a proper…

not to mention, ford sold plenty of focus RS’ with essentially the same ‘condition’ and no one seems to notice.

what to do if you want to check your vehicle recalls:

i don’t understand the push for an entirely electric-only future. i get that it’s more ‘green’, but, well: