What a lovely airplane. It genuinely reminds me of Bugatti road cars of the period - the Atlantic in the illustration is appropriate!

A Plymouth Duster, an Isetta, or a 70’s Dodge Power Wagon that you use when solving crimes with your brother at your detective agency.

Like a lot of 80’s Japanese cars, these are virtually extinct around here. Don't think I've seen one in fifteen years (a running one, anyway).

More of a hot mess than a hot hatch. I kind of dig the mechanical mods but the stylistic changes are the 80’s version of a terrible body kit on an Eclipse.

ISTR that Carl’s Jr. ran that thing a few years ago, maybe 2006 or so? They called it “the 4th of July Burger”. I think it had potato salad on it as well.

It made my stomach cry a bit when I read about it.

I stopped worrying about my grey status on various Kinja sites ages ago. It seems a rather odd system anyway - I get having a “probationary” period when you need approval or have to post at least twenty non-spam posts, but having to beg to be un-greyed is just stupid. Plus, the way I figure it, anyone who’s not…

It was probably pulled out of a junkyard after an accident totaled it. They don’t usually use drivable cars for these things, they buy cars out of a scrapyard for scrap prices.

I imagine it was pulled out of a scrapyard after an accident totaled it. They don’t generally use nice cars for these things.

I mean, I get it, I hate it when some show like Mythbusters trashes something that would be desirable otherwise, but you can generally tell they were in the junkyard for a reason.

It’s even worse if it wasn’t billed. I migh, almost, be all right with it if a mechanic did this with my vehicle while actually on a test run and I caught them. I’d be getting a gigantic discount (if I paid at all, I'd likely take the vehicle back) but I wouldn’t insist they be fired.

Look, you guys are all wrong, it’s just the guy’s last name, it’s pronounced “Arrast-amay”. I’ve met Jim. Nice guy, wouldn’t speed or anything.

Street legal rally car my ass. It's too nice to thrash and too hacked up to show. CP all day long.

Annoying, not useful at all. As you said, the whole “getting closer to the car in front” generally clues one in to the fact that the car in front is going closer. If it doesn’t, then a blinking light of some kind won’t help you.

I feel the same way about the blinking brake lights I sometimes see on full-dress Harleys.…

It would be more varied, that’s for sure. It’s one of several things I prefer about other series over F1-the fact that there’s more choice, and to me a varied grid makes for a more interesting race and championship.

I would say German translated to Portugese-cause that looks like an Opel Manta.

Nope. I actually like these cars, and kind of like the way it looks lowered, but stuff like the paint and the filthy engine area scream “poorly spent budget”.

In the early 70’s, the GP pit strategies were mostly “try not to pit in if you don’t have to”. You tried to carry enough fuel to get through a race, or most of one, and tires had harder compounds and could go a whole race. Hell, treaded tires were barely out of use by the time the Connew was running, and slicks of the…

“Look, it’s just the armoire, two night stands, the Ark of the Convenant, and a couple of boxes of old Playboys that used to belong to my Dad. I’ll buy you a pizza and some beers if you’ll just help me unload this stuff at my storage unit.”

I always say “Lamborgatti Fastarossa”, and tell the asker to Google it.

I’m always surprised by old photos of big-city police cars from the seventies. They’re always beat to hell, like that Fury.

Youre confusing the word “sleek” with “size”. The grille treatment is cleaner, as is much of the detailing. Lights are better integrated (those ridiculous trailer tail lights excepted), as are most other details. Both soft and hard tops are cleaner designs. Less terrible 80’s style black plastic cladding. Taken as a…