Automotif DCXXIV...

Here's a 1965 Electra 225 convertible in the color that Buick called "Bamboo Cream". It's in really nice shape; obviously not a garage-dwelling creampuff but a regularly driven car with which the owner's happily battling entropy.

Snapped with a Sony 𝑎77.

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Saturday Memes!

Automotif DCXXIII...

Spotting MG TD kit cars built on a Volkswagen Beetle chassis is pretty easy from behind, as the exhaust system of the little rear-mounted air-cooled VW flat four is a dead giveaway.

From the nose end, you have to look at the front suspension. The coil springs and lower control arms let us know that this one's the real deal and not a replica.

Tab Clearing...

• NATO Catching Strays: Russian drone misses Ukraine, hits apartment building in Romania, injuring two.


• Zuckermuskian Solipsism


• Rebuilding US precision weapon stockpiles to pre-Iran levels will be a multi-year project.

End-of-Week Memes!

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Fetch the Geritol...

Here's a website designed to help you feel old...

Just keep pushing the "Another" button until your bursitis acts up.

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The Panopticon...

This sounds horrible and dystopian...

BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles.

Basically turning your local Anytown School District's bus fleet into mobile Flock cameras.

They've already drawn scrutiny from Florida to Pennsylvania.

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Tab Clearing...

• Plop, plop, fizz, fizz...


• The sheer dystopian-ness of the "AI girlfriend"


• Any time you find a crowbar wedged into a societal fault line in a Western democracy, it's a safe bet that the person leaning on the other end is standing in Russia.

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Memorial Day 2026

Remember.

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Prince's Gate

It's been forty six years and... *glances at watch* ...two weeks since Operation Nimrod, so I've settled in to watch The Final Option via Amazon Prime Video.

Take Some Memes Home for the Weekend!

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.

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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.

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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.)

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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?

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"You Have 60 Days"

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

Like clockwork, comes this AutoZone memo...

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