Don't mess with us old guys...

[Gdjjr]

I like it! I bet the hum of those tracks is awesome

[Silly Moustache]

Originally Posted by Steve DeRosa

Living here in the Attitude Capital of the Known Universe/home of the Mob Wives and Made in Staten Island reality series (as well as the occasional episode of Jersey Shore), we've got a bumper crop of those "do-you-know-who-I-am" Goodfellas wannabes who, in defiance of all the laws of Euclidean geometry, somehow manage to occupy three full parking spaces - usually those reserved for handicapped motorists or Purple Heart recipients - with a single vehicle...

As my wife and I have need/regularly make (legal) use of said spaces, we find this a tremendous inconvenience - and having grown up in our mutual ancestral home of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, I'm well acquainted with not only local etiquette but the utter futility of attempting to reason calmly and logically with one of these baboons...

I've been doing some research on a suitable replacement for my aging Chevy Trailblazer - one that would provide a modicum of creature comforts, along with the ability to negotiate the often-unplowed secondary/tertiary local thoroughfares in winter, keep up with S.I. Expressway traffic, and remain resistant to the vagaries of runaway shopping carts/careless door openings et al. (accidental or otherwise) at the local mall...

I think I may have just found the ideal Staten Island seniors' car :



https://jalopnik.com/destroy-your-fo...ith-1847713439

TMK there's still a guy in NJ who knows how to make those sparkplug-loaded "flamethrower" exhaust pipes they used on the '50s lead sleds...

Karma can be a cruel mistress...

Do they come in pink?

[Golffishny]

Does it have a hitch to pull my bass boat?

[stokes1971]

Having lived on "The Rock" for 20 years, I can tell you if you put old people in that vehicle,there would be a trail of destruction all down Amboy Rd.Most of em shouldnt be behind the wheel of a Corolla,lol.

[fitness1]

That's hilarious - thanks for the chuckle.

I don't know how you folks do it in the big cities. I live in a town of 40k and get enraged by something nearly every time I get behind the wheel.

[KevWind]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

Do they come in pink?

Or Sunburst would be cool also

[Steve DeRosa]

Originally Posted by stokes1971

Having lived on "The Rock" for 20 years, I can tell you if you put old people in that vehicle, there would be a trail of destruction all down Amboy Rd. ...

- not all of it undeserved and, in my own case, highly selective in nature...

[619TF]

Some of us older folks may remember this stolen tank in 1995:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6UBW0wrB18

[KevWind]

Originally Posted by stokes1971

Having lived on "The Rock" for 20 years, I can tell you if you put old people in that vehicle,there would be a trail of destruction all down Amboy Rd.Most of em shouldnt be behind the wheel of a Corolla,lol.

Ha !!

"A Trail of Destruction All Down Amboy Rd. " ----Sounds like a great song title, maybe in E minor

[Steve DeRosa]

Originally Posted by Golffishny

Does it have a hitch to pull my bass boat?

As a matter of fact, it does - and a winch/tow line:

Originally Posted by KevWind

"A Trail of Destruction All Down Amboy Rd. " ----Sounds like a great song title, maybe in E minor...

Give me time, Kev - just give me time...

[jpd]

Originally Posted by 619TF

Meh, I learned years ago that you have to have an old car in NYC. That helps with the bumper-to-bumper parkers (they hit the cars in the front and rear when parallel parking to make sure they fit in the space). For people who take up more than one space the trick is to park the old beater with one inch between your passenger door and their driver door.

Saw that once in the Piedmont section of Oakland. I walked over to the woman ramming the cars in front and behind and asked her "what in the wide ,wide world of sports" was she doing? She got out of her car and looked at me like I was from another planet.

[fpuhan]

It's missing a turret gun. All show and no go, in my opinion.

[Jeff Scott]

Originally Posted by stokes1971

Having lived on "The Rock" for 20 years, I can tell you if you put old people in that vehicle,there would be a trail of destruction all down Amboy Rd.Most of em shouldnt be behind the wheel of a Corolla,lol.

Just wait another 30-40 years, yute. You may be playing a different tune, then.

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

Do they come in pink?

Only if it is from the hallowed old Force India/Racing Point.

[Steve DeRosa]

Originally Posted by fpuhan

It's missing a turret gun. All show and no go, in my opinion...

Turret guns are too problematic/obvious - the flamethrower exhausts get the same job done, and there's always the "who, me?" factor when the local constabulary (or the local capo) starts asking why Fat Louie Scungilli's brand-new Mercedes Maybach is now a smoldering ash-heap...

[stokes1971]

[QUOTE=Jeff Scott;6815852]Just wait another 30-40 years, yute. You may be playing a different tune, then.




Yute? In another 40 yrs I'll be 106