Barsoom! Damn, I haven’t thought about the John Carter series in forever. Reading them as a young teen in the mid-’60s is what forever defined my Si-Fi reading habits.  Thanks for reminding me.

First reaction out loud: This will be shit on actual traffic. Then my brain immediately shifted to: Wait, necker’s knob! (yes, i’m kinda old).

My first thot: Finally, I can get the Subaru Baja that I’ve been wanting for the last few years, but better.

In ’68 I had an MGA that I sold after maybe 4 days max because it was too slow going uphill and too slip-and-slidey going downhill on Tuna Canyon Road from Topanga to PCH. Other than it was red and ratty and, yes, rusty, my memory of it is hazy> But I believe it had 2 batteries behind the rear seat and they were 6V…

Well, I think option 1 would take care of moving the Earth’s orbit. Taking into account that whole “every action has an equal reaction” thing, the blast needed to hurl all those trees to the moon would cause some reaction to the orbit, and then factor in the combined mass/weight loss from the earth would add to that…

I stayed on the QM while covering the first 4 (I think?) LBGPs, and then once more a few years later for a wedding. It was fun, it was different, and you could imagine the history. Oddly, it wasn’t until years later when I was going through some of my dad’s papers that I discovered he had immigrated from post-war…

Yes, smaller. Prof. Google says a ’67 Spit is 147 inches, the Beat is 129.7 inches. However, the Beat is almost 2 feet longer than my (and maybe Mercedes’) Smart (106.1 inches). If she has the first gen model 450, then that’s 98.4 inches.

I’ve always driven very small cars (preference, not need), so decent fuel economy was a given for the most part. My DD is a bought-new ’08 smart. I bought it for the fun factory after having driven the 1st gen models in Europe. A couple months after I bought it, I installed an ultra-gauge. According to it, my average…

Illustrators of women’s fashions have forever drawn woman 9 heads tall, to elongate and slim the body well beyond what a typical woman’s shape is. Automotive illustrators realized it would work for them if they just turned that practice horizontally. Photographers use a version of this trick but taking shots of fat…

Lest we forget, Pacers only had two doors and neither window went all the way down. AMC added goofy ridges at the top of the door panels to let occupants rest their arms.

Yes, absolutely ... active real-time comms between cars would make everything so much easier and safer.

But the ugly reality is that there will never be V2V because the OEMs aren’t interested in it. And there will never be V2I because the cost of putting up that infrastructure to make communications possible would be…

Sorry, late to the party on this topic (there was no -end to the week-). But the thing with Vegas, besides the dry heat factor mummifying cars, is that it always had alot ALOT of used car lots cuz of folks signing away their cars for cash to try to make back what they already lost at the casinos. From ’68-’82, when I…

Gotta do a shout-out to Katie Bowman, who has been focusing on the importance of toes and feet for a while now. The whole family does her 10-minute routines that involve active toe spreading. 

Is it the lightning gods all pissed about Ford naming it’s new 150s Lightning?

Jebus, I haven’t thot about Cal since I left SoCal in ‘82. I always found his schtick funny and not annoying despite the level of saturation on late-night TV. Wait, I did find his “Go see Cal ...” jingle annoying. But the animals we a fun send-up. 

World’s Largest Ketchup Bottle in Collinsville, Ill. Well off the beaten path, nothing else interesting around it. But, if you’re near enough for a detour, you should cuz how often do you get to see a 70-foot tall water tank built to look like a ketchup bottle?

The “we were safer without seat belts” crowd is a subset of these fools. The logic involved such magical thinking and the need for obvious superpowers. Somehow in a crash a meatsack can hurtle from the vehicle at speed through jagged metal bits and glass, and then hit ground/pavement/other car unscathed. But being…

Agreed. Dad is 94 and he tools around in a Camry Sport with paddle shifters (I know, right? Why?). I’ve been worried about his driving for a while, and in the last year I’ve purposefully driven behind him several times as he takes longer drives, always to medical appointments. These trips take him on nightmare…

Yes, completely. But also ... how sad is your need to brag that you’re OK with broadcasting your dickness, while at the same time guaranteeing that you will be gleefully ratted out? Add dumbass to his list of character traits.

I agree with GenderReveal and voted NP. But as somebody who once got only three-quarters through the building of a FiberFab Jamaican, I worry about the short-cuts and “doesn’t bother me” non-work that enters into the process. My project was fairly straightforward, an easy coupling with a denuded TR-3. I admitted to…