Literally 15s after I took out the bubble wrap.

@sniffpetrol.com book sales pretty brisk I see

His only enemy? Pak-Māān.

Finished reading Chris Harris' book on this trip. James May shows up for a bit and is predictably decent.

Today I have eaten at Tim Horton’s twice, unironically blasted Cochrane’s Life is a Highway while driving a made-in-Ontario RAV4 down a highway, and interviewed a man in a toque. I think I might turn into a hockey puck at midnight.

*resets Days Since Last Canadian Stereotype counter to 0*

We’d revere Joey Dunlop as a saint.

Mallrats (1995)

That is Quite a Lot of Cameros.

Landed in Edmonton for a thing. Do I know anyone in YEG?

Me: I am a Franciscan Friar, living in a hollow tree on top of an entirely inaccessible Italian mountain. Facebook Marketplace: interested in two Renault Alliance GTAs that haven't run in 10 years? Suuuper cheap....

QOTD: what are your favourite stickers on mugs or laptops or whatever?

I can see why everyone’s so excited

Also, I don't know if anyone else ever played the game No One Lives Forever, but there should just be a live-action version of that.

Ongoing bit where Q branch keeps trying to give Bond a DBX and he just puts a brick on the throttle and launches it off things as a distraction.

Somehow, P̶a̶l̶p̶a̶t̶i̶n̶e̶ Bond returned. I will take my million dollar writing credit now please.

Daniel Craig was 51 when No Time To Die filmed. This, the new Bond must be at least in his mid-50s otherwise the series where an undercover agent does parkour and drives Astons will be too unrealistic for audiences.

What a machine.

It’s Sunday morning at the Church of the Blue Oval.

A shout out from Ken! @tamerlaneblog.bsky.social hath been anointed! Anyway, I look forward to your guest hosting.

This is nothing. A local elementary school had a plastic slide that was aimed wrong. As any parent knows, a kindergartner in a wet Muddy Buddy is basically teflon-coated, and kids were getting fired into the parking lot like Maggie Simpson star-shaped shurikens.

I follow a bunch of old school, retired Japanese autojournos. Never fails to be delightful.

Something fun I learned recently is that the front end on this car is the work of Detroit-based hot-riders, not SoCal. Same guys did the Dodge Deora.

I remember seeing May in a Zoom interview (or similar) and behind him was a framed single cel of Tombo from Kiki's Delivery Service, and I was like Well Of Course There Is.

Right. You've now all had a chance to air your Opinions about the new Prelude. Time to get back to more productive fare, like posting French cars.

Cat: cat break Not now I’m Cat: CAT BREAK

A second Ferrari-engined Subaru has entered the chat

Figaros and Paos everywhere, but you hardly ever see these. They are such an important little car in Nissan design history.

What I thinking about when she asks me "what are you thinking about?"

Adjusted for inflation, the WRX is actually cheaper than the original was in 2002. The problem is that the car was a bargain in its previous generation. The other issue is that Subaru sold 84 Crosstreks in the time it took you to read these three sentences.

As if practically everybody going to the JMS wasn't giving me enough FOMO, a friend from the local Citroen club is also there hanging out with the Japanese French car club and driving vintage 2CVs around Tokyo at night.

*googling* how to reset daylight savings settings cat

Wraps are off.

A few months ago, I called up this fellow on a tip that he knew a little bit about Olds Aerotech history. "Oh," he said, "Yes, I own those." Click through for some incredible pictures of his find. www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/...

Something pretty cool is publishing at noon. Stand by.

Halloween dress-up: haha yes am suuuper Sweedish I yam a Saaab

This reminds me of an old joke. Irishman coming home from the pub, pockets full of bottles. Falls over the curb, hits the pavement, sits up and pats a damp patch on his coat. "Ah, thanks be. 'Tis only blood."

Good morning. Christine (1983) features a cursed 1958 Fury. If remade today, the haunted car would be a red 2000 Plymouth Breeze.

Very late QOTD. What recent car are you desperate to drive? Me? Alpine A110.

At this rate, someone is going to give the Pope a Glasgow Rangers jersey.

In Mexico, the race belongs to Los Muertos. www.hagerty.com/media/motors...

Dang!

DIG through the ditches and BURN through the witches and SLAM in the back of my DODGE STRATUS

I had occasion to call the baseball HoF today. The archivist I talked to was a Canadian and called for a Jays win today. We had a nice chat about Bill Kinsella (Shoeless Joe) being my writing mentor as a teenager.

Entirely reasonable price, scuba neck, full zip, and best part:

Jeremy Clarkson: and when I got there, dad was dead and the chicken was stone cold