More on the Black Gold Situation...

Automakers are contacting dealers and changing recommended oils as certain blends are harder to get. Refineries are going on allocation.

Normie outlets like Motor Trend have picked up the story.

This has the potential to turn into another situation like toilet paper in the time of the 'Rona. Dudes at BimmerPost were talking about picking up enough oil for their next two oil changes as far back as the end of March.

.

Meme Dump!

Still Going...

While out and about the other day I happened across my car's older sibling...

At the time I thought the aero on the late Fox body Mustang GT was a little overwrought. My opinion has mellowed with time, although the cheese grater taillight louvers are still a bit much.

.

Midweek Meme Day!

Automotif DCXXII...

I was absolutely tickled to spot this very clean and straight Austin-Healey Sprite out and about. This would be a 1959-1961 model, and the color is Colorado Red.

This was from back when sports cars were very tiny. As an illustration of how tiny, the Sprite Mark II was a little bigger, and you can see how it's dwarfed by a Subaru Outback in this photo. (And an Outback itself is not a monstrously large automobile.)

.

Meme Dump!

Monday Meme Day!

Tab Clearing...

• Juanma has a really neat, lavishly illustrated, in-depth look at a car show in the Netherlands.


• Forget the "Great Man Theory of History" and instead consider the "Mediocre Man Theory of History".


• Funky vehicles in the presidential motorcade in China. Anti-drone vehicles? Some sort of SIGINT thing?

.

"You Have 60 Days"

You'll note that the video was published on April 8th.

Like clockwork, comes this AutoZone memo...

Meme Dump!

How very Teutonic.

"Klaus, what if we made something that resulted in the same outcome as an airbag, but it had a whole bunch of moving parts and also effectively totals the car when it goes off?"

Meme Dump!

QotD: It’s A Scam Edition…

From Bobbi:

"Always doubt the motives of a man who's pushing you for a quick emotional reaction; he's reaching for your wallet -- or your fundamental freedoms."

.

Phoning the Memes In Because It's Friday!