Saw a charcoal GTS with black stripes in Indian Springs, Nevada just off US 95 on 10/30/12. Michigan manufacturer plates, was caravaning with a new Grand Cherokee SRT8.

I've been familiar with CMC since I was a kid. My dad picked up the brochures for their Gazelle, 356, 359 and MG kits back in the '80s and gave them to me later on. I still have them. I think they also offered a '33 Ford Victoria hot rod kit and a '34 coupe as well as Cobra replicas. It's pretty sad that I can't look…

A 959? How mainstream. You sir, need a Classic Motor Carriages 359.

Pontiac G8. Gone way too soon. The Caprice is all right but it just doesn't get me excited the way the G8 still does, and the rumors of the Chevy SS do very little for me. Someday... someday I will own one. I don't even need a GXP, I'd be happy with a G8 GT Sport in Pacific Slate.

When I was a kid I decorated my room with cars cut out from classified ads. I used to pick up the Bay Classifieds, Diablo Dealer and Auto Weekly anytime I was at a supermarket, flip through it and cut out whatever interested me. When I finally grew out of the habit I had about 400 classifieds cars on the wall behind…

Ford Focus Street Appearance Package. I like these later first-gen Foci a lot (I have an '07 SES sedan) but could never take the SA package seriously with its huge wing and curb-scraping front air dam. It exaggerated everything that was bad about the Focus while providing no appreciable improvements to performance or…

The answer is still Pontiac 6000 STE.

The first car I ever actually drove was my 1985 Pontiac 6000 STE in an empty parking lot with my dad. I took driver training in a horrible, horrible beat-up 2001 Toyota Echo coupe. Most of my 50 hours of learner's permit practice were completed through road trips in a 1999 Buick Regal GS, and I used to same car to…

I think you'll find that a lot of '80s "performance" cars were like that. My Pontiac 6000 STE was supposedly an enthusiast's car in its day but had only 130hp so 0-60 was in the 9-10 second range, and handling wasn't fantastic by today's standards, though it could hold its own. Of all the cars I've driven for any…

I nominate the Mark II Celica Supra. One of my short-list favorite cars of the '80s and one of the last Toyotas I ever liked. I love them in silver, grey and black.

I dig those. My favorite Fairmont by far.

Cable TV movies should have taught them that you never mess with a melon farmer.

Because SHO and because awesome.

I wanted one of these since I learned to drive, and finally test drove one three years later and was frankly disappointed. I still love how they look, though. Ended up getting a used 2007 Focus SES sedan and I don't really regret it. The Focus isn't fast, makes the same horsepower and has pretty much the same engine,…

Am I doing it right?

*Sigh* Welcome to suburbia. San Ramon, CA. Home of soccer moms and the occasional executive working for AT&T or ChevronTexaco. Basically any midsize to large SUV with blingy (but not too extremely blingy) wheels.

A Suzuki X-90 disguised as a runaway pop-up trailer. Since I imagine the novelty would wear off quickly and it would make a terrible vehicle to run a 24-hour race in, a 17-second pass clip is all it takes to sum the car up effectively.

This is still gold.

Some 3rd-gens were factory, but second-gens weren't. That said, I've seen worse.

Too easy.