For the same reason the chicken crossed the road... to get to the other side!

Absolutely! Ever watch Danica Patrick right before she crashes on track?There’s usually an opportunity on any Sunday. She ALWAYS lets go of the controls!

“Graverobber I marvel at your cunning ability to tie pop culture...”

Those guys are not only a little warped, they also possess great ingenuity. There’s a photo spread in e-mail (maybe on the net) of a bush pilot whose plane was badly damaged — damn-near destroyed — by a bear trying to get inside while foraging for a meal where it was parked by an Alaskan stream. The pilot was able to…

They DID build a computer once... but it was powered by Lucas and once turned on, wouldn’t turn off. Or it wouldn’t turn on. Something like that.

CP - No way this ugly POS would ever be worth $10K.

I had a lady “friend” who bought one of these new, back in ‘85, and it was a hoot to drive. Whenever we were together, she’d hand me the keys and tell me to GO! If we were going somewhere in our separate cars, it was like the Indy 500 but on the Pennsylvania back roads. Since I had a Saab 900 Turbo at the time, I was…

1986 900 Turbo coupe (wife’s car) was ~$26K on a six-year lease... and turned out to be such a P.O.S. that we dumped it only 2 years into the lease with the attendant $ losses — but for a ‘88 Legend LS Coupe with a 5-speed manual, just to get out of the Swedish vehicle. Never again would I consider one. Quality…

I had an ‘88 ‘Prelude Si4 WS — in Honda’s yellow — with a 5-speed manual. Rare car, as it took me over 5 months to get one even with $100 deposits at a few dealerships. The Japanese didn’t think yellow would sell, and only 10% of the production of that color was destined for US markets. Of those, half were automatics,…

Wouldn’t it be nice if people knew the difference between brakes and breaks? Sure would make reading their scribbles a lot easier.

You might notice - that with so many cars and trucks going to those “stylish” LED-type DRLs ringing around the headlights - that a turn signal, once engaged, turns OFF the DRL on that side of the car so that the turn signal may be seen in a bright contrast from any distance, where it would be obscured if the DRL…

I drove a 1988 Honda Prelude Si 4WS for 8-1/2 years. For almost all driving situations it was not even noticeable; it did give a tighter turning radius when doing a U-turn, but that was about its only advantage. But how often does one need to do a U-turn in a compact car? IMHO, if it had been justified for the extra…

Mine was under $50 out the door, tax, tags, title... and AWD to boot! Got lotsa’ money left over for cheap gas, too!

I just bought one too. Now I have to figure out (and remember the instructions for) all the bells and whistles... and I didn’t even get the technology package! It seems like a wonderful bargain with the USA’s best warranty. This is better, after driving Infiniti G37xs for the last six years. I call it a Korean…

Since most places a working person commutes to/from are parking lots 50% of the time, nobody wants to get that much left-leg exercise while creeping along in that bumper-to-bumper traffic. While I prefer a manual, I won’t buy them any more even if available, because of the inane traffic situations we all face. Gimmee…

Centrifugal Clutch...

It will rub off on the road, but not until it takes you down a few times. You might as well rub grease on the tires. Same as putting new tires on a bike and not “breaking them in” for a few hundred miles to scrub off all the tire-mold release compound that’s left on the rubber when they remove it from the mold. That…

In the mid-late 60s, they ran stock cars around the perimeter of the grass at Soldiers Field in Chicago. I went once on a summer Saturday night while I was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, but the event got rained out before the heat races got underway. Track length had to be close to 1/2 mile... sort…

The track-tour vans at Daytona International Speedway... our driver came off pit road and took off for the turn 1 banking, got up to about 30 mph in the nearest lane and then came back down to the apron, telling the gullible people in our van that you’d have to go over 80 to get on and stay on the banking. I called BS…

I thought that sounded familiar...