What to drive

Pontiac G8 — Phid grows up and buys Godzilla

to outrun these assholes…
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Playboy’s 2011 Cars of the Year hit the casting couch

Playboy’s 2011 Cars of the Year hit the casting couch — Autoblog. We all know the story, and we’ve all used the line: we read Playboy for the articles. Somehow no one ever takes us seriously, but the fact of the matter is that Playboy is a men’s magazine with a wide readership and articles […]

Evil Lurks

1973 Dodge Charger — Your engine’s on fire, FWIW

This does not quite rise to the level of an Acid Flashback, since my only connection to one was that for a short time, a sometimes asshole manager at the BK lounge (not one of these guys) drove a red one somewhere around this vintage. Mostly, the point is “Hey look, an old car in Phoenix – we’re like an updated version of Cuba!”

Name that Car

Yeah, I know – it says “Charger.” Look closer. the buttresses and side windows look like ’60s Chrysler. Amber turn signals before the 80s? (The Granada versions in the 70s were fakes) No outside mirror? Inside mirror pointed to the right? I believe we have an Aussie in our midst, the Charger 770. Smelling the […]