Are you talking about Eagle Mountain, in Riverside County? I didn’t realize it had been abandoned. I covered a lot of high school games in the Inland Empire as a sports reporter for the SB Sun in the ’70s. Places like like Eagle Mt., Trona, Boron were already close to ghost towns then.

Once he made the terrible decision to televise the trial, he just got hooked on the fame. 

Thank you! Totally made me spit coffee. My roommate had that exact image tattooed on his much-too-skinny arm AND the Desiderata poster above his waterbed. Good times.

Isn’t this scene a movie trope? I feel like I’ve seen this similar scene way more than once or twice ... at the end of the movie two tough-guy enemies, walking in different directions, stopping shoulder-to-shoulder and begrudgingly expressing some emotional appreciation for the other guy, and then both sauntering off,…

Damn, this is inspiring. I have a ’56 TR3 that I’ve owned since 1969. It’s complete and ran when parked a lifetime ago. Now that I’ll soon have the time, I will give serious thought about duplicating this project. And, yeah, these have always been super fun to drive -- especially hard. 

Jebus, all I can see is the size of that air filter!

I have an ’08 smart that’s been mostly parked since March 2020 when we started fulltime working from home. I only drive it maybe once every 10-15 days to pick up grocery orders. I don’t know about yours, but something in mine would completely vampire every bit of charge (and this was a new battery!). So I’d have to cha…

And the Feds need to mandate standardized battery pack designs so they’re swapable and can be quickly changed out and we’re all not collectively wasting millions of hours of our lives at charging stations. 

Yeah, there’s a whole lot of tall slabs in that design.

No mention yet for Jan and Dean’s Dead Man’s Curve? “I was cruisin’ in my Stingray late one night. When an XKE pulled up on the right ...”

Of course, it’s the effing Inland Empire! I lived/worked in Berdoo for a decade way back when before all of the should-be-uninhabitable parts of Riverside County turned into developments — Moreno, Elsinore, Perris, Banning all should have stayed dusty and baked small towns. They were not great areas to start with, and…

I have a ’69 XKE I drove into the garage of a new house in May 1996, and it’s been untouched since then. I know: heinous, unconscionable, and clearly criminal treatment. $502.50? If only .... 

Ummm. As a Marylander, I do hesitate. I think the glib response would be: But, but, but ... Baltimore!! The Free State doesn’t need another freeloader city. As an ever-hopeful child of light, I guess I will have to go with: Ehh, what the hell. Let’s give it a try.

This! Dad was USAF and we were stationed mostly overseas and usually in SE Asia (PI, Taiwan, Thailand). Every time you were transferred to another base, everything you owned was put in huge wooden containers, then usually loaded onto ships depending on destination. I remember stories of how somebody’s shipping…

Beautiful, and occasionally came across them in SoCal in the late ‘60s. But the AC of my dreams was the Aceca, a rarely glimpsed grand touring coupe. I just loved me some fastback British (soon-to-rust) metal at the time. (I owned a ’63 E-type as a nightly driver).

I don’t know where you were but I can attest to the demand in SoCal. For about a year in ’73-’74, every couple months a friend and I would drive to the Big Middle states in search for dirt-cheap 240s. There wasn’t a lot of love in the heartland for cars from the Land of the Rising Sun, much less “sports” cars that…