Weekly Roundup: Four Speed Fox Edition

This was a relatively quiet week for me and Bark, although I wrote a few things that stirred some comment and gave America yet another look at my rarely-seen beardless visage variant.

When I was in Hilton Head last weekend visiting my father, he gave me some old photos that he'd taken. Presumably they were taking up valuable space in his rather large home that could be devoted to photos of other people he liked better, or possibly just some air molecules or something. But among them was a photo of me on the day I got my Fox, over twenty-three years ago. From that, I wrote The Golden Age Of Cheap Cars. It's done remarkably well with the readers, at least for a psuedo-Proustian ramble about being unable to afford a Civic Si.

While we're at it, I will share this photo, which I like, from that weekend.

I had just one post at TTAC this week, mostly because I had three last week, and as most of you already know, it was about the Denali clickbait. It was comment-packed but not that popular in the overall scheme of things.

From Bark, we have a QOTD with actual, specific relevance to the auto industry as it exists now. Poor form, brother. A good QOTD is always as vague as possible. Next time, try "What's The Best Thing With Wheels?"

You can hear Bark, along with Hooniverse's Jeff Glucker, on the Smoking Tire Podcast. Jeff's pretty quiet throughout the podcast. I would be remiss if I failed to mention that Jeff and I have a very special connection in this business. You could say that we parked our cars in the same garage, although I backed my car out and got the hell out of there before he pulled in. He continues to deny this parking incident ever took place, and since he's something like six foot four and a half I'm going to continue to act like I don't have an admission of the fact on the part of the facility operator on the matter. Hope that was vague enough for some of you to not understand it.

What's happening this week? Well, I'm going somewhere to drive something with 900 (nine hundred) horsepower. More on that subject after I return alive. In the meantime, enjoy your Labor Day, all of you. You know what Labor Day is: a day when office workers have a chance to stretch out and demand free refills at the restaurant before filling up their cars and heading out to do some serious shopping.