The Cars Are Already Putting On Their Halloween Costumes: COTD

Halloween is a fun time. You get to pretend to be your favorite movie character, get creative decorating your lawn, or if you’re like me, use the night to embark on a new chapter of life. Don’t forget to include your car in on the action, and I don’t mean just tossing a fake bloody arm in your trunk.

Today, Mark wrote a Shitbox Showdown between an MG Midget and a BMW Z3. As it turns out, a car can wear a mask. Canopysaurus delivers such a satisfying chuckle:

Hannibal Deflector?

I also loved the story told by XLEJim700:

In the early-mid eighties I framed houses on Staten Island. I worked with a soon-to-be good friend who was 25 years my senior, a veteran carpenter/blackjack dealer with house-framing experience back to the fifties when he came home from Korea.

He was a pure Coupe DeVille man who was an active part of the SI gambling scene, i.e., games in luxury apartments, remote-site houses, and even a site on the upper floor of a volunteer fire station.

Anyway, he was a man of the world, and consequently pretty darn generous if he considered you worthy. He picked me up and dropped me off many times in his work car which was a mid-seventies Midget.

He drove it proudly and unironically, never drawing attention to the incongruity of car and driver. And who knows, maybe there wasn’t, internally. But without giving too much away, it was like Paulie Walnuts (The Sopranos) rolling up to a sitdown in this little box.

So, for him, there was that little something about this car, and it gets my vote.

We’ve partnered up with Copart and will likely buy a car from the platform. Right now, a 1966 Mercedes-Benz 230S 230P (the ‘P’ is for Pickup) is a strong contender, and Canopysaurus was on a roll today:

Oh lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Bedz…

Then Canopysaurus showed up again in the article about the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra. I was huge fan of Xiaomi back when I had an imported Mi Mix smartphone, so I found this great:

No matter the vagaries or validity of record setting attempts, Xiaomi seems dialed in and not just phoning it in.

Anders also got me with:

With US tariffs added the time is 13 minutes and 33 minutes.

Finally, yesterday I wrote about a truly baffling bus with computers all over the place, weird metal grates over only some of the windows, and an apparent Faraday cage shower. JunkInTheFrunk makes up a theoretical owner:

This thing is basically the Winchester Mystery house of mediocre RVs. My head cannon on this vehicle is that an MLM girl boss of the essential oils / crystals / supplements variety wanted a mobile command to sell her wares from the road. However, she required protection from evil 5G / vaccine-rays. She commissioned her long time situationship, Chazz, to build this vehicle, but the complexity of the task drove them both to madness.

Have a great evening, everyone!