I used to know a guy who worked for the company that underwrote breathalyzers for a police department in a southern state. They came to his company with 3 models they were thinking of buying, and asked which one best met the specs they wanted for accuracy. None of them was close. So the police department came back…

Agreed 100 percent. Panteras are also on my bucket list.

You'll get the hang of it once you've been there 7 years or so. It took me 11.

I once had a guy come in with brakes looking like this. He had driven from Tennessee to California with a stuck caliper and hadn't noticed. When I pointed it out to him, he just shrugged, and said, "that's why my mileage was so bad."

If I wasn't married I'd fight a duel with you for her.

But it's just too much to hope that a guy on a dirtbike will be in the same place at the same time.

Yeah, I think I remember telling this story like a year ago, but I didn't want to go looking through my post history.

When I was in grad school and lived with three other dudes, one day during the evening commute we set up lawnchairs in the front yard, brought out a case of beer, and put up a sign on the curb saying "Slow: judging in progress." Then when cars went by we would hold up signs with numbers from 1-10, like figure skating…

Lamborghini Miura

"Slain" isn't being used as a noun here. And there is an appropriate but rare sense in which slain just means "destroyed." But I agree that the wording was poorly chosen and makes it sound as if he died by violence. I think I've been seeing this around in headlines lately.

When I used to work in parts, I had a regular client who took in a Daewoo Nubira unwittingly. He bet me $20 that I couldn't find the parts he needed for the job. I think it was just a couple gaskets. He still won the bet.

Yes, but it doesn't seem to me to be able to mean rainbow-colored wheels. My assumption is that it does mean this easily in Russian, so people would get the pun.

You make a fair point. But context is a fickle thing, and I still like the '012 terminology. Partly because I'm so looking forward to being able to tell my grandkids about "aught twelve."

Certainly on a short list for "Ugliest car ever built from the factory out of a pretty car." I call it "the hunchback."

Can we celebrate Henry Ford day by being anti-semitic?

Seen a lot of jungle gyms in your towing mirrors, have you?

It took me a while to get that. It doesn't really work in English, does it?

I'm a perennial shooting brake skeptic, but I get it with this one. I think it looks better than the coupe body, and that's awfully rare. I like the interior too. If there's no hidden rust, I'd say NP.

I just worked on one of these yesterday. An '012. It was a fleet car for an elevator repair company, so it had no back windows, a cage in the back, and was all white except for the logo. Definitely what my friend would call a "stabbin' cabin." But the shape of it seemed so cute, it's hard to see it as menacing,…

As much as I think Jay is an unfunny condescending nitwit (to be generous), I love watching the videos on Jay Leno's Garage. And I love his collection, and at least some of his stories about it. I think you have to respect a man who employs his own steam-car mechanic. That may be second on my list of life…