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Erin Marquis
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Either the animators were massive racing fans or at least they extensively studied racing footage.

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Neon. It is the ninetiest car to ever nineties. When I picture a nineties car it in nearly always Neon-esque with its circles and soapbars look.
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So my parents picked up a E350 based motorhome from a friend. Seemed like a good deal, good shape, clean, but the heater fan didn’t work. Do the basic upgrades, tune up, replace a few things to make it vacation ready. They ask me to look at the blower fan, which is pretty easy. 4 bolts under the hood and one Read more

I was rebuilding the shifter in my 1980 Spitfire. It’s a super easy job because Triumph was cool enough to make a removable tunnel panel between the seats, giving you full access to the transmission from inside the car. I decided to do some cleanup while I had it all apart... Read more

My cars are and have always been pristine. They get vacuumed every time they’re washed, and the interiors get wiped down at least every other month. Read more

Oh, my poor Neon. I tried very, very hard to keep it clean. But, I was a heathen college-age male who lived with his parents, so I spent a lot of time in it. Eventually, the...patina that it received from my questionable habits increased exponentially with time. Food gets spilled, drinks get spilled...other things get Read more

One of my kids years ago had a blow out of his diaper while at the store. One of the good ones that somehow goes against gravity and shoots up their back. So I take him out to the car to clean and change him and plop his freshly squeegeed ass in the front seat while I do damage control. He then makes the face one does Read more

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Solidarity Forever! Please remember to join a union today!

look, can we all just kinda admit that private vehicles suck? Read more

Counterpoint Season 1 and 2, are some of the strongest opening seasons in all of Trek  Read more

Ah! If you let me find my medical tricorder I can probably check for that. :) Read more

They did a good job of skipping over the 1st season or 2 of hot garbage that can plague new Trek shows. I think having it run concurrently with TNG helped with that. Read more

DS9 did a great job of fleshing out even the background characters. Even Morn. Read more

I, for one, can’t wait to see all the resultant bitching & whining from the ever-present contingent of booklicking, cop-fellating, fascist fucks - I mean, reasonable modern-day conservatives - that soil the Jalopnik comment sections. Read more

Oh, and if you, the reader, are thinking Jalopnik is about to become a little bit less left-leaning in her absence, I promise you, it’s going to get much worse. Not because Erin was a voice of restraint, but because she’d want it that way.
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