OK, now I understand why you aren’t in Toulouse right now, drinking a beer with me and getting greasy on an old Datsun.

[Lights on cigarette, stops making the effort to hide French accent]

I do love that there’s a clear Torchlopnik category now.

I smell Jeep.

I have flipped my car. I was a young driver going on a 1300 miles road trip in a foreign country. It was the middle of the night, I was tired, I should’ve stopped but the back country of Romania didn’t really inspired me confidence so I pressed on. And I didn’t see a traffic sign, which I hit.

That’s a great plan, with a nice potential for awesome stories after the road trip (also called “problems” or “catastrophes” at the moment you are living them).

Covid / tetanus hybrid.

Holly cow man!! Do come to France! I’ll definitely make the miles from Toulouse to wherever (I suppose Le Mans is on your list?) to meet you!

All my condolences Ariel.

Dude, if I walk 10 minutes, I have 2 grocery stores, both are awesome, 2 butchers, 2 bakeries, 1 fish shop, 1 cheese shop, a buttload of restaurants and bars. If I want to go to my favorite bar I either walk 30 minutes, bike 10 minutes or take the subway. Doing so allows me to get shitfaced without losing my driving…

You don’t need more lugs with 34hp and 730kg. That’s why you can still have a 3 lug nuts wheel on the Twizy:

Well, I’m a work in progress mechanic. I’ve started by doing oil changes and brake pads on my old Clio until I bought a decent-but-not-so-much Datsun 280Z to teach myself how to wrench properly.

To anyone being jealous of us European having this car: it’s a piece of crap. I’ve read up a bit on this car some time ago and the single argument it has is its price.

Do You Like Pickup Trucks?

I’m trying to fit a 240Z reproduction rear bumper on my Datsun 280Z.

So we can brag about being in contact with engineers? Can I brag about asking my significant other to pass me the coffee in the morning? Am I cool now?

Rough paint it is then!

Yeah! Can you give me an approximate timeline? If it’s this year I’ll bring out my project car in a very much “project car bodywork” state. If it’s next year, it’ll be all shiny (I hope).

Are you going to spend some time in Europe? Man, if you do that’d be awesome if you could to set up some kind of gathering with the readers. That could be the next Europomeet! I know that I wouldn’t miss the opportunity to meet you. You’re kind of my wrenching heroe.

Hey man, it’s the internet. It’s not worth it. I too am a Calvin fan, pissed off by the stickers but I think Jason makes a meta joke, as the link to the website that explains the history of the sticker seems to suggest.