For the record: Thomas Midgley, Jr. didn’t “accidentally” poison the Earth. He and Kettering knew from the start that ethanol would achieve the desired result, but alcohol cannot be patented and so they went about finding something that could be patented. Once he stumbled upon tetraethyl lead and production started it…

Pacers, Gremlins, any late-stage AMC. They’re all so roly-poly weird, and they’re rare so any that I do see are typically cared for by their owners, which means that when I speak to them I can be sure they’re just as weird as I am.

How long will Americans sustain their enthusiasm for space exploration and potential travel this time around? We wasted virtually all of our previous efforts because the public got sick of funding Apollo missions once we “won the Space Race”, and now 50(!) years later we finally get back around to reinventing that…

The ubiquitous Harley V-Twin. On idle it sounds like it’s laboring to run and it looks like it’s shaking itself apart (which it is), and on throttle it makes a sound that virtually all of us have come to hate because the morons who own them have all pulled the baffles so it can be heard 5 miles away in all directions.

If I want a Viper engine I’ll get it in a Viper. I don’t like the proliferation of gargantuan pickup trucks/SUVs to begin with, and hotting them up so you don’t have to buy a car is a stupid trend that I wish would die.

As long as a manual is available OR technology forces a change, I will drive a manual. I know that the death of ICE means the death of transmissions, but I’ll lament the loss only when that reality exists. Until then, I’ll rage against the dying of the light.

A manual with a good clutch is never torture. My Juke, surprisingly, has one of the best clutches I’ve ever used. If I could make the car last forever I would. I don’t ever find it burdensome or laborious and I have an arthritic left knee.

His truck? Hell, he should lose his freedom. The perjury he just got caught committing will hopefully go some ways toward that.

Most Wanted was fantastic, although sometimes it did feel like a grind with the circuit races and rubberband AI. I beat it, of course, and then replayed it endlessly for the police chases. The aggressive levels of police were very difficult to get away from, though there were some cheaty spots like in the bus station…

I don’t know. The price is right and the interior is nice, but the outside is super ghettoized.

The interior of every Corvette up until the C7 was as cheap as they could make it. You don’t drive a ‘Vette for comfort, and at times not even for speed. You drive it for style. The C4 is a little understated compared to the C3 and later ‘Vettes looked better, but this has nothing to be ashamed of. Nice Price.

All that said, if I had the coin I’d take my chances on this. 

Did you ever see Quicksilver? The bad guy drove one of these. Since I saw that movie this car has always been overtly intimidating to me. I know, that’s unreasonable, but it is what it is.

Sure enough, two morons out of the first 110 voters said this was a Nice Price. Out yourselves, idiots. 

Forty large for a salvage title Range Rover is a joke. They suck already when they’re new off the lot. Add those rims and you know the seller has a great sense of humor and is in on the joke.

AMC wasn’t different because they wanted to be. They were different because they had to be. They were DOA after they were organized, only to fall into a niche that didn’t previously exist, small cars, just as the excess of the 1950s culminated in the grotesque 1958-59 models from the Big Three. Their continued…

The worst car(s) of the 1970s were the so-called personal luxury cars like the Lincoln Mark series that were as big as a city block, had engines up to 500 cubic inches that produced abysmal power, could only go from one corner to the next before needing to refill the gas tank, and had atrocious baroque styling.…

Complacency sets in with everyone, especially with the people who should know better. The kind yet stern old Senior Master Sergeant who instructed me said to me that checklists are written in blood, and so I slavishly adhered to the checklist at all times.

Yes, Armco barriers are really a thing. You know the steel guard rail on posts on the highway? That’s an Armco barrier. On a track they’re usually stacked to make a more significant barrier, though it’s a somewhat dated one that doesn’t usually appear on FIA Grade 1 tracks because there are better options.

The reason you shouldn’t eat raw hamburger is because a grinder is ludicrously difficult to clean so meat can stay and breed microbes which contaminates everything that goes through it. But a steak? Minimal processing. Far safer to eat raw.