Some of the best stories out there are the ones that reach deep inside you. Sometimes, the words, even about some silly facts about cars, relate to something in your life. Sometimes, the story takes you down memory lane.
Jason wrote about how many cars have standard features that you never actually see in the wild. This triggered some memories within Jason J Lukawitz:
When I was a kid, my parents went out to purchase a car, initially they came home with a pea green Chrysler wagon, I really have no clue as to the model – but – I know it wasn’t the Volare rather MUCH bigger in size. They only had that car for 24-48 hours, not sure the reasoning behind it being at our house (I was only 4-5 years old at the time), but it went away shortly after being acquired.
If I had to guess, the dealership may have “rolled” the car absent full credit approval, my parents where high credit score types in those days, but regardless of the “why” it went back, the return trip was in a Baby Powder Blue Mercury Monarch with contrasting dark blue vinyl roof. (And no Torch – it wasn’t a manual!).
Shortly after that purchase, we went Great Adventure in New Jersey ( I think it’s now Six Flags ) and drove through the animal safari wherein a group of monkeys mounted the car in a pseudo sexual guided destruction event whereby they shredded the vinyl roof into long 2-3″ wide strips the length of the roof.
My parents were livid, forget the whole “travel at your own risk” signage at the entrance, they Demanded reparations for the damage to the car, and when they didn’t receive them, proceeded to “glue” and repair the roof using different vinyl repair kits on the market in that era.
Those repairs didn’t last, soon the strips of vinyl would flap in the wind as travel was made in the car. A funny side note, this was the car my parents decided to start enforcing a seatbelt rule, so young me used scissors to cut away the rear passenger lap belt, my mom catching me in the act, but the belt itself already cut nearly halfway through, that being an endearing feature of the car until such time as it burnt to the ground one day as my father drove home from work.
He was fine, the Monarch – totaled.
Oh the memories this site brings back, I’m starting to feel like my membership fee is going towards making me feel old!
-Jason
Matt wrote about how Stellantis wants to beat Chinese cars by selling diesels. Then he asked about what powertrain you’d like to see come back in a hypothetical world of no emissions controls. DialMforMiata:
I’m not going to do Stellantis’s homework for them.
Brian wrote about how people are installing an Infiniti app into their GM vehicles to make their stereos sound better. Iotashan made this funny observation:
I’ve reached out to both GM and Nissan about this phenomenon.
Do you want to get the software banned from GM vehicles? Because this is how you get the software banned from GM vehicles. See “My Bad: While Reporting About How People Are Selling CarFax Reports On Etsy, I Got All Of The Listings Removed“
Mighty Bagel:
GM Marketing is currently drafting a email to GM Infotainment as we read this to get installation of this app blocked on all GM vehicles for ‘Security Reasons’.
Have a great evening, everyone!
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