Right after I got back from Vietnam in 1967, I bought myself a toy. My dream was a 356 but my reality was a TR3B. I loved the cut down doors, the raucous exhaust (removed resonator and replaced the muffler with an 18" Smitty glasspack) and most especially how it and I became as one. Read more

It was a car like this one, albeit in a lovely shade of coral, that nearly caused my parents to divorce. When my Dad bought his 58 Mercury it was after a string of earlier Mercury’s. My Mom loved the 54 that this monstrosity replaced. In her mind the 58 was just too much. My Dad on the other hand was totally in love… Read more

The only car I ever had fender mirrors on was a ‘59 Triumph TR3.  I agree with you 100%.  Fender mirrors are awful. Read more

Not only that but the average house had better handling characteristics.
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Until 1983 Japan had a regulation that the mirror needed to be visible through the area of the windshield swept by the windshield wipers. Once that law was relaxed, it didn’t take long for the functionally superior door-mounted mirrors to replace fender mirrors entirely (some taxi drivers kept them as blind spot… Read more

I don’t care if an autonomous car sucks at driving. Read more

We can already tell you’re old...you use two spaces after the full stop. Read more

Once more shorts cover. Read more

I had to put this here. Strangely it was their second recording. Known as the Brown album.

1940 Ford.

Next best thing (best thing, IMO) is when an automaker names a model exactly what it is. Way back when, a car was just called whatever it was - the Ford Sedan, the Porsche Spyder, the Datsun Truck. This was actually rather common up until recently...remember that before the '90s, the Toyota Hilux was just called the… Read more

Whipped credit card out the moment i saw this article.  The LEGO space stuff is super cool.  Cant wait for lego Mir and lego gemini. Read more

I always call every Tesla model a Tesla. And every Fiat a POS. Read more

I want that Mazda to be called The Zoom Zoom now... Read more

With 1 flying color (red)!
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It would end up being like lowering the windshield on a new Wrangler. Technically possible but not worth it. Read more

A generator defeats the entire purpose of camping in the great outdoors.  A great engineering application whose time has come. Read more

Next up: LEGO space force Read more

“Woodie styled” big American wagons were a thing from the beginning to the end of the American wagon. Real wood that was structural in the 40s, real wood that was just an accent on steel bodies in the ‘50s, then the fake bark look from the ‘60s to the ‘90s when the last of the plywood pleasure palaces died. Then a few… Read more