Bonus: She's positively grounded.

Must drive a Passat, right? My wife's Jetta was made in Mexico (like all Jettas here in the US, at last check).

Johnny 5 is alive!

Well, it got my attention. And I totally agree with you.

In my fantasies, I dream of purchasing the design and manufacture rights to a long-dead straight 8 and reproducing it for use in...something. Anything.

Another 'rescue the old bus because it's worth a ton now' story? Must be time to harass my brother for selling his '61 23-window just before the market boomed...

Props to the guy in the red car stopping in time...looks like he locked 'em up for a sec, but kept it out of the wall.

On a side note, Cliff Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg" is a great book, especially those interested in the 'good old days' of computers, hacking, and networks.

I call it a draw. A win for the rally car is if it drives away; a win for the wall is if it stops the rally car and stays up.

Had a friend/co-worker with one pushing 275hp to the wheels. I distinctly recall riding shotgun at lunch one day and hitting 120mph on a stretch of 4-lane highway.

This whole tirade assumes that the parents wanted to be travelling at that time with their child.

Scott Trinder, noted Canadian rally driver, used to rally a Swift GTi. It sounded mean. He traded up to an AWD Celica, but was overheard by this rally driver as lamenting the upgrade at times — there were even stages, early on in his ownership of the Celica, when he was decidedly slower than in his beloved Swift.

I think a lot of folks on this thread are missing the fact that a massage is not a message.

U R A BUS

The only 6 that deserves to be in a Dart is a slant 6.

Nope, it's been one of my favorites for a while.

Yeah, for bombing down the highway, give me some Black Lillies any day.

Oooh, very nice. http://www.bringatrailer.com is your friend (or enemy).

I know. I didn't need more incentive.

Poor Midget...