I believe it was Tom Wolfe (born early 1930s), who was at least a writer. Tom Brokaw, who's neither a writer nor a historian nor a journalist invented the "Greatest Generation" as a lazy, ahistorical trope to market a booklike product. Sorry, but just because someone was born between, say, 1910-1920 gives them no…

No matter how cool it looked, even by '80s standards, it was a vehicle for a tiny niche. That's why it wasn't put into production, is my guess.

Oh, fucking bullshit. Note the Greatest Generation also gave themselves the most generous government benefits in American history (regardless of wartime service) and stuck their children and grandchildren ("Boomers!") with the tab. This (and plenty of other stories over the past few centuries) is about individuals,…

This award should have two classes, for cities north and south of, say, the Ohio River (seems about right). Whenever I take a winter road trip south and a bit of Up North weather happens to happen, it's high comedy and I end up looking like Sebastian Loeb, which I most definitely am not: "Hey, that guy's driving past…

The '89 Civic Si I owned while living in Minnesota in the mid-90s. On the morning after a blizzard/seriously subzero night, it was I who collected my newsroom coworkers and brought 'em in to work. Including those who owned Explorers, F250s, etc. One night it was -43, and the Si, parked outside as always, fired right…

I've found a good coat of Rain-X actually does help. 'course, it must be applied BEFORE it gets cold outside, so you'd also need calendar-reading skills...

I was thinking older LH myself. Wheels appear to be a bit more muscular than the LH, but that could be the light.

Way to take a great idea and completely lame it up, kids. I'm sure the grownups in charge thought this would be all edgy and clever, but it's so obviously contrived and self-satisfied.

I was hoping I wasn't the only one who thought Studebaker.

A $3,000 pickup is just what you want if you actually need to, you know, haul stuff a couple times a year. Assuming it checks out, park it behind the garage and pull it out for trips to the dump, lumberyard, etc.

I LOVE the whole 196os American-V8-in-a-sexy-Italian-body genre. Don't know if it's the answer to this question, but still.

Represent, Brazilian dude! One of my best friends here in Iowa is from Brazil. He's lived here more than 20 years, but every time he starts thinking about getting his US citizenship an election rolls around, and he finds too many reasons to put it off...

This car is everything I hate about megabuck exotics, but gotta grant this is fairly awesome. Also, is this event some kind of track day where the public can view megabuck exotics being honed? 'cause I'd actually pay a few bucks to see that.

Some terrific answers here, but I'm gonna guess some brass-era make none of us have ever heard of.

Lighten up, Francis. Is it any wonder (we!) Americans are earning a rep for being the whiniest "victims" on the planet?

Drifting is racing's stupid, slower cousin.

Yeah, no question there. Back in the day it was a question of having this technology - slowmo, instant replay, and satellite transmission - and finding some event in the dead of winter to use it on.

Uh, you might want to ask someone who was there. I was, albeit a decade or so from potential car-buying age. But for about 6 months to a year after the '68 Olympics, Killy was HUGE. The Winter Olympics then was kind of a thing in an era when you didn't have TV sporting events 24/7/365. Actually having any form of…

These are not "sports," they're goofing off with skis/skiboards/snowmobiles/etc. with a subjective scoring system assigned to make it a competition. "Sports" have objective scoring goals: get the ball across the goal line, put the ball in the hoop, put the ball/puck in the net, etc. This doesn't make them any less…

Oh, man...a buddy bought one back in the day before I could stop him. Whatta piece of crap. The brakes went out within a few months, and the dealer told him "mice ate the brake lines" and stuck him for a complete replacement. I pointed out mice don't eat rubber, but it was too late...would've better if mice ate the…