geistkoenig
Patrick Frawley
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The finest bolt-action system ever conceived originated in the same Eurosocialist hellhole as that dirty commie Marx.

Statistics teacher says it would read more naturally if the axes were reversed, but still good. Read more

Yay for smaller stuff. If only someone would manufacture a good basic CJ/YJ/TJ-sized off-roader for us again. Read more

VW’ engineers dispute this 36 degree threshold. Both of ours ding at 39. Read more

Set the CPI calculator for sometime in the summer of 1978, which is when the MSRP numbers would have been determined in Kenosha. Read more

Been wondering if it’s possible to fit good headlights in the small bumper openings on the NA. Would be great to lose the pop-ups completely, and there has to be a particular LED bulb or something at this point that would work. Read more

All-American. Lawyer who grew up in the back country. Needs to somehow project both dignity and that man-of-the people vibe. Extra headroom appreciated.

“Proud to be black” is what is it because of the idea that there somehow was - or is? - supposed be shame in being black: black is inferior, black is lesser, black doesn’t deserve to be respected. Black pride was a revolutionary counter to that bigotry, a straight in-your-face statement that black is human and noble Read more

You’re gonna name a trim package, leave it to Earth’s most individualistically weird car company to take their most absurd (yet wonderful) product and find a name that’s both never going to appear on the average marketing name sheet and ineffably perfect.

It’s been a personal favorite since childhood, but somehow I recently figured out that “The Gumball Rally” is the only movie that really gets car enthusiasm right: the juvenile antiauthoritarian vibe, the camaraderie, the weird tension between money barriers and open-minded inclusion.

It’s like he was aiming for the tallest part of the building. Read more

Yes, the OHC six was available on Tempests from 1966 through 1969. Kinda overshadowed by the GTO but still an interesting item. Read more

Oh, no. They’re seriously going to make their “clients” (I suppose that’s that proper term in this case) offer up one of the best Ferraris of the last few decades to butcher for this folly? This is not right. Read more

If you’re going to grossly overpay for something, there have to be intangibles or a sense of membership in a closed society. (Someone once said that if you pay $50 million for a 250GTO you’re actually paying $10 million for the car and the rest for club dues.)

“Overpay,” not “create that which no longer exists.” Read more