Flex your nostalgia: An Archive of RadioShack Catalogs ( via ).

Pennlug has bought a trailer . Meanwhile, the WamaLTC brain trust has busied itself with, um…

The dystopian atmosphere of Strange Days includes a reference to the price of gas being over three dollars a gallon. Just a curious detail in a society falling apart, where the Los Angeles Police rock the Eagle Vision .

Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) Information for GM vehicles, 1972 to present. If I knew the model year (to know which PDF to download) I wouldn’t need to read the VIN! Still, linked for future utility.

The 1987 Chevrolet El Camino was the end of the line for that model but it’s hard to tell one year from another so I can’t be sure of the model year for this one dressed up like a wasp. Twenty-five years, though, automatic classic.

The founder of Curbside Classic is envied for the quantity of older vehicles in his neighborhood. Today’s walk, though, yielded a Buick Electra Park Avenue , a Plymouth Reliant LE , the DeLorean DMC-12 , a Lincoln Continental , a Chevrolet Bel Air , an Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser , and a Chevrolet Bel Air , not too shabby. I’m thinking the DeLorean is not a daily driver.

The Fairfax Connector 306 no longer serves Landmark Mall , I suppose that the flag at the bus stop will have been taken down. The transit agency which uses neither NextBus nor Google Transit assisted my walk today.

How Fake Luxury Conquered the World ( previously ) has a new home at The Truth About Cars where it gets some pushback .

The WamaLTC group on Facebook has returned to my sidebar, I am the sole remaining member.

This request is not going to be fulfilled . It’s almost besides the point that the creation is no longer in the form depicted. I could suggest studying my Orion VII bus instructions.

The 2005 Chrysler 300C previously mentioned in these pages has been replaced by a 200S .

After replacing the fill valve, the supply line, and the flapper, what’s left? The 15-year old flush valve! A totally different floor from last time .

I have yet to figure out what the Department of Transportation is doing with a 1973 Chevrolet Impala besides using it as an ambassador for safercar.gov , but apparently the Environmental Protection Agency had a Plymouth Superbird in the early seventies ( photo gallery of restoration ).

Radio Television Serbia , perhaps forgetting that they’ve established a Twitter account for Sports , tweets on practically every ball of the longest Grand Slam final in tennis history .

K-Pop Idol Groups infographic ( via ) suggests that the number of debuts skyrocketed last year. I can appreciate a manufactured group when they’re adults but the description of the current state of the industry ( via ) brings to mind the kind of pressures placed on athletes for the Olympics.

Ford may seek to deprive America of active grille shutters but today I learn of at least two other vehicles prepared to offer you this feature here. One is expensive , the other less so.

This might explain why the WMATA Trip Planner wasn’t working this morning. The annual trip to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center is one of the few times I use the subway now. Man, I let the money train cars 8003 and 8002 roll right past me this afternoon before it occurred to me to raise a camera.

DASH Public Hearing POSTPONED

Retraction of Public Hearing Notice

Notice is hereby given that the Public Hearing Notice published by Alexandria Transit Company on January 19, 2012, that the ATC Board of Directors will hold a public hearing on February 2, 2012, for the purpose of consideration of the 2013 ATC Transit Development Program (TDP) and fiscal year 2013 budget, and the impacts that proposed reductions in City subsidy will have on the DASH system has been postponed .

A new Notice of Public Hearing will be advertised once a revised date has been set.

Parklawn Elementary had a visitor this week ( via ).

Ford Focus Titanium to get manual transmission ( via ) but that means SYNC® with MyFord Touch® is included… something to investigate at the show coming up .