@Maymar: Agreed. When I was a kid, I used to think Nader was the reason the cars of the time (70s and 80s) were boring, because the car magazines I was reading said Nader was the problem. Now it's pretty apparent that the car mags just uncritically bought the GM company line.

@JdoubleH: I had a spare 12A of unknown origin that I threw in my ITA RX-7 the night before a race weekend, to replace the 12A that just ate an apex seal. That thing consumed about 3-1/2 quarts in 8 laps before I was black-flagged. Needless to say, there were no mosquitos at the track that weekend.

@7shades: Repping the Antipodes: I'm thankful I never had to do a starter on my LS. That being said, I have never understood why engineers (and Toyota's are by no means alone here) continue to place starters where they will be subject to heat soak and/or lack of cooling air. Not good for a starter motor's…

By far, my favorite GTO is the '65. It had the stacked headlights of the iconic (for many) '66-'67, but without the "coke bottle" styling, which I think did not work as well on the GTO as it did some other cars. To my eye, the 65's combination of the stacked headlights and straighter body lines make it the tautest…

The aftermath of sex on wheels?

Too bad it's not an RS. The split-bumper early 2nd-gens are so much better looking than the full-bumper cars (which are not horrible looking, and honestly, would probably look fine if the split-bumper RS never existed). While I'm sure the owner spent far more than the asking price on the resto, if I was going to…

The real reason? Homeland Security is just jealous of the FBI, where agents get to seize, and then crash, Ferraris.

The McLaren MP4/4. Because, you know, it just couldn't stop winning.

"riced-out Supra"? Isn't that a bit redundant?

It's like, how much more blue could this be? And the answer is none. None more blue.

So say some of the articles that come up when you google Northwest Flight 255. I don't remember any reports of looting at the time of the crash, but again, it was 23 years ago. Honestly, I had forgotten about the crash itself until reading Skink's comment. The majority of articles available online do not mention…

Actually, NWA flight 255 crashed in Romulus, not Detroit. Romulus is about 25 miles west of Detroit. So, more likely than not, it was a small minority of Romulus residents who "promptly arrived at the scene and promptly proceeded to steal the jewely [sic] and other valuables." Get your facts straight. There are…

As much as I love the Stratos kits, there is no question that the Seven is, and always will be, the best kit car ever.

As usual, F1 does it better. Big carnage starts at about 0:56

The attraction is in the straightforward, no-frills honesty of the truck. As a work truck or an off-roader, it is capable and because it's no-frills, you don't have to be afraid to get it dirty. Unlike just about every modern-day sport-ute.

It may be dangerous, but the driver doesn't seem to mind.

The QOTD asked what designs have stood the test of time. Many of the answers were dead wrong—the Lamborghini Diablo, for instance, is very dated today (as are the flared and be-spoilered Countaches of the '80s). When a car clearly looks like a rolling cliche of its era, it is not timeless. On the other hand, if it…

I'm feeling a sense of deja vu, as if I have used this car (and this picture of this car) as the answer to a very similar QOTD...