Right now, you’re probably busy preparing for the Super Bowl. But at this very moment, you’re here, checking out the latest installment of Car Connections, a series in which I link three outputs from the Random Word Generator to cars in some way—and I am thankful that you are. This week’s words are ratio, medicine, and tube. (How would you associate these words with cars? Tell us in the Comments section below.)
Ratio: I can just end this one by choosing compression ratio, but that’s too easy. Instead, I’ll start with sandwiches because I believe part of a good sandwich is its ratio of bread to fillings. There needs to be a balance of the two so that you can sink your teeth into the bread but also taste what’s in the sandwich. That leads me to the sandwich chain Jimmy John’s, which makes me think of Jimmy Johnson, the two-time Super Bowl-winning former NFL coach. Yes, he took the Dallas Cowboys to the top in the ’90s but, when he popped into my head, I thought of Florida, where he led the University of Miami to a national championship and coached the NFL’s Miami Dolphins. Florida is where Velocity Restorations transforms “iconic vehicles into modern masterpieces.” Last year, we brought you reviews of its 1966 Ford Bronco with the Blackout Package and its 1972 Chevrolet K5 Blazer.
Medicine: Every now and then, especially when colds are going around, it’s time to break out a jar of Vicks VapoRub. In this case, rubbing is a good thing, but it’s terrible for matte paint jobs, such as the Bond Silver finish offered on another one of our review vehicles, the 2024 Genesis G70 3.3T RWD Sport Prestige.
Tube: Going to the bank is a boring errand, but using the drive-thru’s pneumatic tube system is somewhat fun. Hmmm . . . tube. Torque tube. You know which car had one of those, which housed the driveshaft and connected the front-mounted V8 to the rear-mounted transmission? The 1997-2004 C5 Chevrolet Corvette.
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