How about a Peel P50. It’s small enough that you can hide it and light enough to drag it around by hand if you have to.

My father grew up in that era. Born only a few months before the stock market crash of 1929, lived in the Dust Bowl.

Good, bad, who cares? More highways have to go in so that they can immediately go under never-ending construction. It’s all a plot by Big Orange Barrel to line their pockets. First you get the new construction, which requires orange barrels. Then as soon as it’s done you start a maintenance project, which requires…

Dodge Charger and Challenger have lots of off-center front badging. I think older models put the R/T and SRT at one end of the grill, newer ones have the Dodge name at one side.

Who cares about the driver, was the McLaren rescued? Was it airlifted to an emergency repair bay with McLaren specialists?

Related question: have you ever thought “maybe I should call that guy in” and then realized it was a cop car?

This is a Rolls Royce, you should be able to invite your impoverished plebeian friends to park their Escalades in the back seat when you take road trips.

Car companies keep making the windows smaller and the posts bigger, especially in back, and wider camera views help balance that out. Maybe they get the dual benefit of making it easier to design for crash testing and turning expensive extras in to a must-have option for more buyers.

That grill immediately made me think of the Edsel.

How about “Wranglering”, since it’s already not totally unusual to see Wranglers rolling down the highway in freezing weather with no top or doors.

Unmodified diesel pickup, old enough to predate the complicated modern emissions systems. Depending on where you live and where you plan to go, one might not be that hard to find. If it’s had decent care it will likely still be running when you can no longer find diesel fuel, gasoline, or a good car battery.

Possible good-for-me outcome: tech companies get scared and start doing more work in other parts of the country instead of continuing the land-grab in the tiny area around the Silly Valley, so I have more options for interesting work without having to move to a stupid-expensive place I hate.

When you give you information to the DMV, you probably don’t think it’s going to sell that information for profit.

Yeah, not so many cars with a whip antenna, and glass bottles are also a lot less common than they were in days gone by.

Maybe every car should have a candelabra as an option. It should go right on the front of the hood in the middle. Imagine these build options for hood ornament:

There were full-size pickups on the market in the 70s and 80s with 6-cylinder engines that were in the same ballpark as your J10 engine. They were, by today’s standards, quite slow, but you could keep loading more crap in to the back until the nose was pointed at the sky and they’d keep moving.

I see that problem a lot more with the air hose than with the fuel pumps.

There used to be a Dodge Ram rolling around St Louis decked out for the Rams football team. I wonder what happened to it when the Rams left town.

What’s the crossover with the worst power/weight ratio in the US market? That’s probably the one that really needs a stick-and-clutch option.

Years ago I heard a story of a work crew in a remote area of a developing nation stopping for gasoline on the trip to a new site. Filling the tank involved a funnel, a glass jug, and a kid running back and forth between the storage tank out back and the truck parked in front. The foreigners were a little uncomfortable…