Category Archive: Craigslist Find, Unhinged
Unhinged: Hunting For Beaters On Australian Marketplace Sites
So…I didn’t know that you could shop for Australian markets on Facebook Marketplace. Like I needed another way to dive down the rabbit hole of online car shopping, right? But I did, and...
Unhinged: The Electric Vehicle Outsold The Manual Transmission For The First Time In 2019
One of two things is going to cause me to ditch a manual transmission for an automatic: either my left leg will no longer be useable to work the clutch pedal or what’s left of me will be...
Unhinged: Cash Bar At The Mach-E’s Frunk, Plus Free Shrimp!
About two weeks ago, when I asked what the “next useless option” would be for the new car market, I meant that as a bit of a riff on the current state of affairs for new vehicles. Watch...
Unhinged: Proof Of The Stupidity Of Drunken Driving
There are a lot of things you can do with a car that falls into the “straight-up stupid” file that I’ll happily admit that I’ve done over the years. I’ve sped on...
Unhinged: The GMC Hummer EV – What Kind Of Mea Culpa Is This?
0-60 miles per hour in three seconds, 1,000 horsepower, and…and I’m quoting the press release here…11,500 foot/pounds of torque. Those are the figures currently released for the...
Unhinged: Who At Ford Was Championing This Particular 1980 Mustang Look?!
From the first photo I saw of it, I knew that the 1980 Mustang Ghia that we refer to as the Great Pumpkin Mustang was…how to say this nicely?…unique. I’ve seen just about every...
Unhinged: Beware Of The LS-Powered S%*tbox!
Where does the line end for the term “sleeper”? The sleeper is meant to be a hide-in-plain-sight kind of car, the sucker punch out of nowhere that catches the unwary dead, the one that...
Unhinged: Maybe The Train Needs Another Look After All
Every single time I make the trek into Southern Illinois, I’m reminded that Amtrak really does still exist. I never give train travel much thought. Either I just want to drive it myself, or I...
Unhinged: Supporting Selfless Service And Saving A Dodge Truck
If you’ve seen any of the Summernats 33 coverage, you probably have a pretty solid idea on just how hellish Australia is right now. If not, here’s a basic layout: on the eastern side of...
Unhinged: Take Some Time And Get Your Mind Right
Hey, readers. I hope you had a good holiday season, whatever you celebrate, and I hope the hangover from New Year’s has finally subsided. Mercifully, the holiday season treated me lovely this...
Unhinged: Waxing Poetic On The Subaru Baja
Here’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever wanted…a Subaru Baja. Why in God’s name would I want one? Mainly…it was the only ute left. The El Camino died before I finished...
Unhinged: Holiday Traffic And The Angry Human Being
Ok, is it just me or did everybody lose the ability to properly operate a motor vehicle shortly after Thanksgiving? That’s not one of my normal rhetorical questions, I really want to know,...
Unhinged: The Sunset Of Print Magazines
The starting point was a silver Hot Wheels C4 Corvette with the cream-colored interior tub and the red luggage case visible in the rear hatch. The ignition moment was when my uncle Benjamin and the...
