Being the Mad Scientist type that I am, I think if I somehow acquired the Kar Manufacturing body shown above, I'd throw some modern Westfield XTR mechanicals under it. Just for the shock value.

Richard Petty Plymouth Satellite. The car that made me love NASCAR.

He looks like the actor who plays the mob boss Elias on PERSON OF INTEREST.

Heck, that wonderful gauge of automotive culture—the product lines of Revell plastic model kits—includes "Donks". The kits Revell sells/sold for their Donks series include Pontiac Grand Prixes, Buick Grand Nationals, and Cadillac Coupes DeVille. I am somewhat surprised they didn't include a Lincoln or Chrysler in…

I used to own a sedan version and by the placement of the fuel filler, I think the featured vehicle WAS a wagon originally and then converted.

"You've Never Seen/

At the Flea Market (spell check wanted to call it "Flea Malarkey") today, there was a stall that sold nothing but little strobe light LED modules...I imagined that somebody was just going to show up, plunk down some hundreds of dollars and rig up his vehicle to look like an escapee from a Disneyland night parade.

*plays "Hot Rod Lincoln" on the stereo*

Ideas: 1) Lotus Ford, anyone? 2) MG Midget replica, based on a body-in-white from BMH. 3) Model A replica, or possibly that '40 replica that Ford is now offering; 4) Mustang II.

Next Week on NCIS: Los Angeles...

*plays the "A Prius For Everyone" jingle on the Muzak*

Because how evil can anything be in this nation if it doesn't come with bacon on it?

Exactly my point!

I own a Prizm...and it's been very good to me. But I don't think it deserves to be a Chevy. For a while I wanted to personally re-badge it as a Vauxhall or Opel or Holden or Delta or somesuch. Just to freak out the rednecks.

When I was a boy I was addicted to J.C. Whitney's catalogs. In fact, I still keep some from the middle 1980s. Hood ornaments, window louver sets, sun shades (both the stick on vinyl and the big visor things), faux spotlights, hood scoops, air dams, spoilers, graphics stickers, mud guards, fender flares,…

A few years ago when the Tennessee Air Guard put a Dolly Parton nose art graphic on one of their tanker jets Parton herself made a big publicity thing about it. So it isn't exactly "dead" Stateside.

The car that Robbie Nevil set fire to in one of his music videos.

There was a request from the family to not have a lot of cameras around. Somehow, tho', I expect more photos are just going to show up over the next some days.

The biggest gearhead in my circle of friends is a twenty-something female veterenary medical student in California who owns two vintage VWs (a fastback and a Ghia) but who has a Mini Countryman as a daily driver. Just a datum.

Raul Julia's character did it in a scene in GUMBALL RALLY. A JetRanger tops out at about 150 mph, a Hughes 500 is maybe 10 to 15 mph faster.