Then you have the opposite problem. Easy to get at the spare, good luck getting anything into or out of the trunk. I’m imagining a heavily laden shopping cart, a parking lot that has a slight incline, a typical 50's housewife with curlers in her hair, physics and gravity.

Yeah, I changed my oil! Beware my edge! Jeez Louise.

“I would end up with sticky black shit all over my hands”

The rock band (The Tubes, for god’s sake) merging with the big band was the trippy part for me.

List incomplete without Message From Space.

The Seventies. Swingers. The word “Sport” had a different meaning then. In this context, it meant “Plenty Of Room For”

I very strongly believe the Vega was supposed to be the next Corvair. Why else would there be all those air louvers in the back? Especially the wagons (I’m looking at you Squareback)

Not sure if counts but the fifth gen Accord hack of using Acura CL front hubs to get easily replaceable rotors is my favorite, though from what I’ve learned I can’t use them because wagon brakes are different.

Mine wasn’t a turbo, but was way more fun to drive than it had any right to be. Got it cheap, but in the end the endless unsolvable electrical problems weren’t worth the trouble. Was a sad day I sold it at auction. When you get above 40 cars owned you learn when to give up.

Had someone try to steal my car once, they freaked out and ran just as I was getting ready to sign the title over. You want this piece of shit that bad? Fine it’s your problem now!

Have hit deer in small cars. Not fun.

Holy crap that’s terrifying!

I read a book years ago with a character named Myrtle Street who lived on Myrtle Street, that’s what I always think when I see your posts. I don’t suppose you live on Mercedes Street, do you? (a reference to another book lol)

I drive a 94 accord ex wagon 5sp about 200 miles daily. For a 28 year old car with 320,000 miles it performs pretty damn well, able to keep up with or embarrass shiny new Attention Whore Cars in stock form, though I have learned there are certain parts you only want from the dealer (do not use Autozone ball joints…

New carpet. Hacked carefully from a Home Depot remnant.

New carpet. Hacked carefully from a Home Depot remnant.

The other way wasn’t a bad look for that era so I guess engineering got to take it’s time and still look like heroes. And yes.

Oh yeah, sorry I missed you in Richmond, was having a very DT moment with my Honda exhaust. Don’t stop coming to Richmond, lots of real cool and more importantly weird car culture. I have seen a gathering of Citroen’s right next to a row of purple muscle cars. I called it Le Conventione du Badass Barney. We are like…

I like cars from this period. There are sometimes hints of trend or retro but mostly a new model was just trying to be the best representation of itself, as a coherent theme. My dad bought pot from an expatriate English dude in the seventies who had one of these things. It was a joy of design completeness. It was…

It’s stupid but the little “Foot Opera” lights on my 94 Accord give me a chuckle, though they are far less elegant. My personal favorite was the 1980 Datsun 510 with the warning light that was icon of a foot stepping on a brake pedal, to warn the passengers that the driver was in the process of braking. As if they…