Duuuurty Eight Hundred gang checking in lol.

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My sons drives a 3800 series II powered PontiOldsmoBuick He has driven it without coolant. He has driven it with low oil. He has visited more negligence upon that car than maintenance ... and it still runs without noise or complaint.

I couldn’t tell you the last time I saw a Chevy Celebrity in the flesh. My parents owned a 6000, so at least I had some seat time in a A-Body.

Almost got hit by a Sable today. But I'm in Florida, so...

Agreed - I saw a Tempo the other day and damn near swerved off the road in surprise

Good take.

I’ll write a follow-up: Stop Blaming Your Traffic-Filled Commute and Just Admit You Want an Automatic.

Driving a stick in traffic is not a big deal if you’re not an old-timer.

I’m not terribly motivated to go find that follow up article, but based on what you said, there’s nothing overly scandalous in it.

Unlike some of the people here, I do get nuance. And thus get your point.

Yeah, the crusade against drunk driving was the classic slippery slope of regulation. Driving at 0.2% BAC? Definitely impaired, with rare exceptions. Fine, let’s crack down on that. That made sense.

You have no idea who those guys are, do you do? Oh I’m sure you’ve heard of Geobbles, but Bernays?

Here’s the points where Mr. Alcoholic Community College Professor is right:

Hawt Take: I agree with you. And dislike people who get obnoxiously religious in their hardline anti-buzzed driving takes.

I learned to drive around that time. I heard similar arguments all the time in papers and the like. The root problem is something we don’t think about now. We have changed how we define drinking.

Confusing the fact that someone pointed out brainwashing exists, with the incorrect assumption that by pointing out it exists, they disagree with it.

It’s pretty wild. I’m not advocating for drunk driving and never would. I am of the generation that had DARE and MADD coming into schools and I was fully convinced that drugs and alcohol were going to be the end of me if I ever ended up trying. I’ve never driven after a single drink. But this man is more discussing…

Really Torch? Another post about some horrible thing someone said or did 40 years ago?

Yeah, I was going to say something similar. NYT curates astonishingly bad takes on the reg, so similar to a comment above, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they published one tomorrow that said, “Our cars can almost drive themselves, so surely blowing over .08 in the archaically-christened ‘driver’s seat’ can’t be…

This was written pre-brainwash. That is why it seems so odd to you.

Well, the New York Times Editorial Board regularly gives column space to the likes of Ross Douchehat and Maureen Dowd, so it hasn’t really changed that much at all.