Six litre four pot, at that 
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Classic road hog.
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Just watch “Drive my Car” instead for all your Saab loving thrills. It’s a major character in the film.
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Plymouth Valiant! My friend’s parents had one, which we put a lot of miles on just cruisin’.
Slant Six, pushbutton automatic. Unkillable.
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That gas cap! Body design over fill-up ergonomics.
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Trains with freakin lasers.
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C-32 on approach to Andrews:
Here’s what I haven’t been able to figure out. This is about 12 miles (as the C-32 flies) from the runways at ADW. But the way the planes approach there, they’re at a much lower altitude than they’d be if they were the same distance from a “regular” airport. (Or to put it another way, if I were at National Harbor, watching planes approach DCA, they might be the same altitude as this one.)
What’s weirder, & I didn’t get a photo, is that a little later today I saw a Southwest 737 close to where I took this - maybe a little higher, and headed in a different direction. But for any airliner to be that low, I’d normally have to be closer to BWI (like 3-5 miles north of where I did see it) or DCA. Maybe it was a missed approach to the latter.
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Well, it isn’t a regular plane 
I looked at the path on ADSB Exchange. Looks like they turned off the ADSB transponder before final approach so hard to say what they were up to.
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Shenanigans?
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Tomfoolery?
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Frolicsomeness?
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You go too far sir!
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Ah! I should’ve clarified, this is usually the case with any airplane heading to ADW, not just this one in the photo – C-37s, C-40s, KC-135s, (less often) C-130s. (But, yeah, none of those are regular planes – last time I lived that close to an AFB, I was on the other side of town & wouldn’t have noticed the approach.) I’ve long wondered about it. They’re always this low, e.g. near Greenbelt. (FWIW I saw a Yemenia 747SP fly in around the time of Regan’s funeral.)
Thanks for that link, though – is that different (or just differently presented) info from Flightaware or Flightradar24?
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Same data as flightaware but this one keeps a 24 hour log of the tracks and cross-references to the tail number, registration and callsign. Pretty spiffy
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