Housekeeping: Happy President's and Family Day

Tim Healey
by Tim Healey

Today is President’s Day in America and Family Day in Canada, and so we, and our corporate masters, are taking the day off.

We have a regularly scheduled Junkyard Find, and if news breaks we’ll be around, but otherwise, see you all on Tuesday.

Take ‘er easy, and we hope you enjoyed this weekend’s Daytona 500.

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Tim Healey
Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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  • ScarecrowRepair ScarecrowRepair on Feb 21, 2022

    Not The Bee had a fun one, some TV station naively asking NASCAR fans what they wrote on the finish line. Otherwise, I got nothing relevant. https://notthebee.com/article/this-nascar-reporter-asked-the-crowd-what-message-they-wrote-on-the-finish-line--and-instantly-regreted-it

  • ToolGuy ToolGuy on Feb 21, 2022

    Happy Islander Day. (Why does Quebec hate families?)

  • ToolGuy ToolGuy on Feb 22, 2022

    On this Extra Peaceful [now that the Winter Olympics are over] Presidents' Day (Texas spelling; not observed in Delaware), you may want to re-familiarize yourself with the contents of these materials: Movie recommendation: The Atomic Cafe (1982 documentary) [available various places but here is one link] https://youtu.be/lF0r1OdDIME Book recommendation: www.amazon.com/Nuclear-War-Survival-Skills-Instructions/dp/1634502973

    • Slavuta Slavuta on Feb 22, 2022

      "I made a run, let the bomb go. That was my greatest trill", the man in the film says. Immediately I see images of Hillary Clinton when Qaddafi was killed. And now I compare that to a Soviet admiral Fomin who saw the capability of Sakharov's device - a giant torpedo with 100 MT charge, which could destroy LA and all around; and Fomin said, "I am a soldier and not a murderer." This is how this project was scrapped.

  • Eng_alvarado90 Eng_alvarado90 on Feb 25, 2022

    "The General built cars based on the front-wheel-drive A platform (no, not that other GM A platform) for the 1982 through 1996 model years, with the profoundly unmemorable Chevy Celebrity as the most numerous type." I thought the Cutlass Ciera was the most popular FWD A-body back then.

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