toddbarker
toddbarker - drives a death car
toddbarker

This list mostly reads like my "if I won the lottery" list, believe it or don't. I grew up with K-cars and their relatives, so I have a very soft spot for them. In fact, I have an '88 Reliant wagon next to the house. It was far more rotted than I thought, but I can't bring myself to scrap it. I hope to inherit my

Passengers of mine never understand why I go nuts over STOCK vehicles like this...

CP, I've seen the cheap supercar episode of Top Gear. The ache of its beauty is second to the ache of seeing it stationary when it won't run and parts are unobtainium.

Reading the manual for Gran Turismo 2, it teaches the physics of driving and how your tires can only do so much at once. Seeing teens' driving styles leads me to believe that some have NO idea the limits to that big mass they drive.

Yarrr, this'll replace the whale in my nightmares.

As I've told friends and family: If you make these in memory of me, I WILL haunt you. Forever.

I recall hearing that the reason they were made non-functional, was that someone from the company parked one somewhere and returned to find some guy using one as a urinal. Apparently suggested that they just be cosmetic, not sure where I heard this though...

The big question is will it want to kill you? I think that was a bit of the allure of the older Vipers, like maybe they were made with extra anger. I think of a quote from Futurama, to describe a driver's relationship with the car: "friendship to me means that for two bucks I beat you with a pool cue til' you get

Still occasionally fire up my Zune30, just cause I know it still works. It was my friend in high school, I used it all day, every day. It has the marks of a hundred falls to the ground, and the scuffs of a hundred slides on rough surface. What made me replace it though, the failing headphone jack.

Three words. Cheap. Plastic. Go-Kart.

@Vavon: what's the story on that?!