scotte commented on Researchers Claim Heated Seats Can Cause Male Sterility

"In a related note, researchers found that over 99% of constipated people just don't give a ......."

scotte commented on 1971 Chrysler Newport Royal: Makes Buying Chryslers Like Eating Salted Peanuts!

"@staircar: Along with being an annoying division (C-P) -wide ad slogan, Chrysler was "coming through" with new cars in the fall of 1970 while GM was shut down by a 116-day UAW strike that started one month into the '71 model year."

scotte commented on Let's Make A Deal For... A Bricklin!

"When the first Bricklins were at the nearest dealer to my home then (suburban Philly), I drove over there one Sunday with our fast-attack basset hound riding shotgun. i walked him over to the Bricklin that was parked next to the building."

scotte commented on Win On Sunday, Still Don't Sell On Monday: Screamin' AMCs In Eardrum-Punishing Trans Am Action!

"WHAT DID YOU SAY, MURILEE?"

scotte commented on Garbage Truck Acts As Mafia PR Play

"Years ago, when my family was returning to the Detroit area to visit friends, we saw a garbage truck that has this lettered on it just above the trash-hauling company's phone number: "We Cater Weddings.""

scotte commented on Detroit Iron At The Gumball 3000

"Donking a Riviera = blasphemy. @NovaLoadMissesPolar: Great minds think alike."

scotte commented on What's French, Finned, And Flathead V8-Powered?

"So what if it's got a flattie?"

scotte commented on Top Ten American Automotive Pilgrimages

"All of the above deserve Honorable Mention. As does Don Garlits' Museum of Drag Racing just outside Ocala, Florida (right next to I-75, a few miles north of the junction of I-75/Florida's Turnpike). If you want to get anything from the gift shop autographed by Big Daddy himself, call ahead and make sure he'll be there when you are. See more at www.garlits.com"

scotte commented on Toyota Tries To Lower Expectations On Plug-In Hybrids, Mark Fields Asks For Handout To Build Them

"Memo to "The Mullet:" You'll have to PAY* if you want to use the name "Problematic" with your plug-in hybrid, pally! (*The greater of 26 "Little Tree" air fresheners or $1 billion.)"

scotte commented on Vote For Your Favorite Transmission Name!

"OMG! It was an idea that took longer to post on here than it did to flash across my brain...sort of like what transmission you'd find in the next-year successor to the " '58 Bulgemobiles" dreamed up by Bruce Mccall. BTW--i'd like to see the vehicles that the other gearboxes on this list would go into (or fall out of)."

scotte commented on Top Gear Season 11 Trailer... In A Trailer

"@TomCelica: I can't fathom the fact that Clarkson is two years younger than I am!"

scotte commented on Studebaker Daytona: Get That Lark To The Nearest Racetrack!

"Could be one of the late '64s, built in Canada after Studebaker shut down their South Bend works (which included their engine plant) & used up the supply of South Bend-made 259s and 289 V8s, after which they used GM Canada-supplied 283s for their V8s until the final shutdown in '66. That car would have been something on the dirt shrt-tracks that NASCAR ran most of its races on back then."

scotte commented on Create The Best Transmission Name, Get Fabulous Prizes!

"Problematic."

scotte commented on Engine Of The Day: Chrysler Trans Four

"Back in the '60s, when he wasn't doing engine-lab work at Chrysler, Pete Hagenbuch wrote a column on 1/32-scale slot car racing for Car Model Magazine. Honest."

scotte commented on More Old Cars Than You Ever Believed Possible Down On The Tampa Street

"Damn!"

scotte commented on Pearsonville Junkyard Erased, But Not Before Lost America Captured It On Film

"When did Pearsonville Auto Wrecking & Hubcaps close? Their website is still up: www.pvilleparts.com"

scotte commented on Raymond Loewy Designed 1959 Cadillac Eldorado For Sale

"Nice touch---the way Loewy foreshadowed the 1961 Plymouth's taillight treatment on this car."

scotte commented on America Feels Gassy: The United States Of Memorial Day Gas Prices

""Boutique" clean-air gasolines...those with formulations that can only be sold in certain areas...are a BIG reason why gas prices are so different. Example: California requires a blend of "clean air gasoline" that is not made anywhere else that's close (so needed supplies could be trucked or pipelined in)."