Drag City looking eerily abandoned on what has traditionally been one of the Raceway’s biggest days
Your HB about to “step out” on Independence Day
So…what happened? The 249th birthday of the USA has come and gone and no action at Drag City?! Not a peep out of your humble blogger? What gives?
A fair question to ask, considering that for the past five years, Independence Day has been cause for a huge celebration at the track, with a full-blown muscle car race ending in a massive fireworks display. There was my last post on June 24 – a Tuesday, even – and then…silence. No notice of a hiatus even!
What has happened in the time I’ve been away from my blog for nearly 2 weeks is difficult to talk about, and perhaps I shouldn’t: some things are too personal for public consumption, and no one who peruses these pages to read about vintage slot cars or classic 1:64 diecasts is going to be interested anyway. So, suffice to say that over the last couple of weeks, some ongoing crises occurring in the life of someone dear to me finally reached “critical mass” and began to spill over into my own life.
Hastilty printed labels on the new Hobby Lobby “tumbler cases” are becoming necessary just for me to keep all these hundreds of new die-casts organized!
It’s very difficult when someone that you love is suffering, and one of the hardest things about it is knowing when you can help, and knowing when there’s nothing more you can do, and that you are at risk of the powerful tractor-beam of their vortex pulling you down with them. I’m sorry to say I reached that point over the last two weeks, and the aftermath of the decisions I had to make has been weighing on my mind ever since.
Bear Party in the Denver ‘burbs, Fireworks from the balcony; Independence Day 2025: not a complete loss!
More than this, I shan’t say: it’s not an appropriate topic for this blog; suffice to say that the turmoil all this has caused has kept me from both the track and this blog for many days. I’m happy to say that I did get an invite to a good house party on the 4th, and that was followed by watching several urban and suburban fireworks displays from a 3rd floor flat, so, I managed to have a good time in spite of it all. Sadly, I’m going to spend the rest of this holiday weekend working in the office, as the drama I’m referencing here has caused me to fall behind on some projects there.
A more thorough look at all this and more is just around the corner!
In short: there hasn’t been any action at the track, and there isn’t liable to be for at least another week or so. I’m still cleaning up messes and trying to get things back on the shelves. I’ve got a little bit of diecast news to share, but other than that, Drag City is going to be quiet for a few more days.
U.R.A. Teazer!
Bear with me, dear readers: life stuff can be disruptive, but Drag City isn’t yet a memory: the muscle cars will roar again, I promise…
Sometime late last year, my “Hot Wheels Hunter” Jason encouraged me to sit down with him and watch a movie from the past that I had certainly heard of, but honestly couldn’t remember if I’d even seen. It was a film he was a big fan of, and he was sure I’d like it because of a particular scene that he knew would appeal to me, but he didn’t want to reveal too much about what that scene was! So he coaxed and cajoled and eventually convinced me one night while hanging out at my house that we should screen it, so I dialed it up on Amazon Prime. It delivered: I got everything he promised me!
Ralph Macchio as Bill Gambini and Mitchell Whitfield as Stan Rothenstein: New Yorkers mistakenly arrested for murder while passing through a small Alabama town en route to UCLA
While the “Theatre of the Less Obvious” series of posts have run their course (ha ha, get it?), this is another movie I want to mention on my li’l ol’ blog here that was never appropriate to add to that series, focused as it was on lesser-known and obscure films. I’m sure most anyone who may read this has probably seen the 1992 film My Cousin Vinny, since it is a very famous movie made by a major Hollywood studio and featuring big-name stars. The film even won a well-deserved Oscar, with the superb performance of Marisa Tomei taking the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Mona Lisa Vito. For those who have seen it, read on as I confirm that there’s a major reason why this particular film deserves a shout-out on a blog about the culture of classic cars! And in case you haven’t seen it, stop reading this now, because I don’t want to spoil it for you!
Seriously, I really don’t want to spoil it for you, because My Cousin Vinny is a really excellent film! While it is a “fish out of water”-type comedy, its far more than “just another,” for it is also a surprisingly well-crafted legal drama, and on top of that its also a mystery, a genre that a great many people-especially your bumble blogger-are very fond of! A combination of sharp writing, vivid performances, and a deft balance of humor and legal accuracy combine to make this film multiple cuts above many other courtroom “dramadies” you can think of. Director Jonathan Lynn, himself a law graduate, imbues the film with a sense of procedural authenticity that sets it apart from many other similarly themed jaunts, making it a favorite among both lawyers and film enthusiasts. As an additional bonus, this movie skips the usual “coastal conceit” of portraying the residents of a small fictitious Alabama town as “backwards hicks” with hatred in their hearts; from the sheriff to the judge to the witnesses, the locals are played as thoughtful and sincere people trying to do the right thing in the aftermath of a horrific crime; a particularly refreshing angle for today’s over-politicized age!
At the heart of the film is Joe Pesci’s charismatic portrayal of Vinny Gambini. Pesci, known at the time for his intense roles in films like Goodfellas, here displays brilliant comedic timing and warmth. Vinny’s brash, unrefined style collides humorously with the genteel Southern courtroom, yet Pesci never allows the character to become a caricature. Instead, he portrays Vinny as a resourceful underdog whose intelligence transcends his lack of polish.
Marisa Tomei, in her Oscar-winning role as Vinny’s long-suffering fiancé Mona Lisa Vito, provides the film’s standout performance. Tomei masterfully balances humor, charm, and intelligence, culminating in a courtroom testimony scene that is both hilarious and pivotal to the plot. It is this pivotal moment that likely won Ms. Tomei that Oscar that shows why this movie is a must-see for classic car enthusiasts, because the resolution of the mystery hinges on a point that would make the most erudite historian of early 1960’s General Motors products swoon…and, dear readers, your bumble blogger is just such a historian!
The suspect’s car is part of the case of mistaken identity that eveyrone must solve to keep the innocents out of The Chair!
For automotive enthusiasts — especially those with a deep love of American iron from the golden era — My Cousin Vinny offers one of the most refreshingly accurate uses of car knowledge ever put on screen. While the film is rightly lauded for its courtroom sharpness and comedy, it’s the pivotal role of General Motors engineering history that seals the deal for gearheads! At the heart of the movie’s third-act breakthrough is the distinction between the tire marks left by the real killers’ getaway car and those that would have been left by the defendants’ 1964 metallic mint green Buick Skylark convertible.
The prosecution hinges much of its case on a set of skid marks left at scene by a pair of Michelin MX radials, and an eyewitness identifying a “mint green convertible with a white top” speeding away from the scene — but when Vinny and Mona Lisa dig deeper, it turns out that Bill and Stan’s Skylark couldn’t possibly have been the car in question. Lisa, whose encyclopedic knowledge of GM’s 1960s and ’70s model lines stems from a lifelong exposure to her family’s Brooklyn garage, identifies a crucial mechanical detail that the local investigators missed: the pattern of the skid marks indicate that the getaway car had a Positraction differential and independent rear suspension. The Skylark, a GM A-platform car, never came equipped with both those features in 1964…but a car that was quite similar in shape and size did: the 1963 Pontiac Tempest LeMans, which used an unusual rope-drive independent rear end, with a transaxle and a flat floor — an engineering oddity born from John DeLorean’s influence at Pontiac.
Fred Gwynne (probably better known to my fellow Gen-X’ers as Herman Munster) turns in another of film’s awesome performances as stern Judge Chamberlain Haller
The film’s accuracy in this scene is astounding. The dialogue doesn’t dumb it down for the audience, yet doesn’t overshoot into jargon. Lisa correctly explains how the rear suspension geometry and limited-slip diff would leave two equal-length tire marks under acceleration, unlike the open-diff Buick. And she correctly identifies the 1963 Tempest’s unique engineering package — a detail few outside the GM faithful would know. The choice of a ’63 Tempest also makes timeline sense: it would have been an aging but still operational car in the early ’90s Alabama setting; and like the falsely accused boys’ Skylark, the ‘63 Tempest was available as a convertible in metallic mint green with a white top, explaining the eyewitnesses’ case of mistaken identity! While the actual killers and the car they drove never appear onscreen, it is revealed in the final act that Lisa’s testimony lead to the police apprehending the real killers driving the stolen ’63 Tempest, still with the murder weapon in their possession!
For car enthusiasts, it’s rare to see such loving attention to the mechanical realities of vintage American cars — particularly in a mainstream comedy. Too often, Hollywood mangles the specifics of cars in the name of convenience or spectacle. In this movie, the car talk is as airtight as the legal reasoning — no small thanks to director Jonathan Lynn’s insistence on research and Marisa Tomei’s superb delivery of Lisa’s testimony.
Though it never actually appears on film, here are 2 examples of the rare car the actual killers were driving!
To this day, the “Posi-Traction scene” is often cited in legal circles, automotive forums, and by law professors as an example of how real-world technical expertise can turn the tide in court. For anyone whose heart races at the sight of a mint-green Skylark or a well-loved Pontiac Tempest, this scene lands like a perfectly executed burnout: satisfying, stylish, and done with authority.
In summary, My Cousin Vinny succeeds as both a razor-sharp comedy and a surprisingly accurate courtroom drama. The film’s enduring popularity is a testament to its universal themes of justice, perseverance, and the underdog triumphing against the odds. Buoyed by outstanding performances — especially by Pesci and Tomei — it remains a delightful and rewarding watch, as entertaining today as it was upon its release. And that, dear readers, is a mark of a “great film!”
In addition to the Buick Skylark, Vinny and Mona arrive in Alabama driving a Pompeian Red ‘62 Cadillac Series 62 ‘vert with New York plates, which gets a lot of screen time in the film without being gratuitously demolished in an un-funny scene! Imagine that from a mainstream Hollywood production! Although it was rated “R” for spicy language and some sexual innuendo, this is a film that would pass muster as family fare for those with teens in the house; its not for all ages, but lacking any overt violence and sex, its a fun romp for adults from young to old. Highly recommended viewing…especially for GM nuts like yours truly!
Welcome to the very first “Modelo En Bofus” post at thunderjeheaven.com! For the launch of this “column” I’m putting the spotlight on an oddity of the domestic industry from the early 1980s, one which, despite its short span in the marketplace, still managed to become the subject of a Hot Wheels model…one that has received not one but 2 new leases on life, and still lives on today!
Like so many vehicles made by American manufacturers in the aftermath of the golden era, the 1982-’84 Dodge Rampage was a “2/3 car:” a good idea, born of sincerity, and shot down by poor execution. Looking at it today, it seems quite obvious that the Rampage was an excellent concept: a small, lightweight, unibody front wheel drive pick-up truck that was fuel efficient and easy to drive, but had a surprisingly large payload, and could be used for hauling cargo as well as 1 passenger. This was an idea almost identical to the Volkswagen Caddy, released a couple of years earlier than the Rampage. In hindsight. it seems like both vehicles should have done better in the marketplace than they did.
“Adequate” was the order of the day: the 2.2L 4-banger that powered a whole generation of mid-80’s Mopar econoboxes
Perhaps we can say that the market of the time just wasn’t ready for vehicles like these, and that’s largely true. Sadly, despite its cool concept, the Rampage had a couple of other shortcomings. Sharing a platform and mechanicals with the Dodge Omni hatchback sedan and it’s “sporty” variant the Omni 024 (which remarkably was also the subject of a Hot Wheels model!), the Rampage was powered by Chrysler’s 2.2 L 4-banger, an unrefined and noisy engine which, in its early years, developed a reputation for blowing head gaskets. It wasn’t a total PoS; aside than the head gasket issue the 2.2 was fairly durable and easy and cheap to maintain, and it took well to turbocharging, with slightly larger (2.5L) and boosted variants that came later quite a bit more powerful. In the Rampage, however, it was another example of a merely “adequate” powerplant that compared poorly to the much smoother and more reliable Japanese 4-bangers of the day.
LEFT: the homely front end of the original Rampage did it no favors. RIGHT: by 1984 the front-end styling had mercifully improved
Initially in its 1982 release, the Rampage suffered from the unfortunate front-end styling that it also shared with the Omni O24, featuring goofy oversized dual square headlamps flanking a grille-less slatted panel similar to the Gen II Chevy Vega (It was also very similar in appearance to another forgotten oddity of its same era: the Ford Escort XP2. Now, there would be an interesting subject for 1:64 diecast!) Fortunately, 1984 went to quad headlights and a more proper grill, greatly improving the vehicle’s appearance. More importantly, the 1984 version brought the availability of a desperately needed five speed manual transmission to replace the inadequate 4-speed of the earlier models, although the optional three speed automatic was unchanged throughout the production run. With the 5-speed and a surprisingly useful 6-foot bed, it boasted an impressive payload for its size — over 1100 lbs — and returned excellent fuel economy, important during a time of rising gas prices.
The Rampage’s econobox DNA extended to its interior specs
Unfortunately, the Rampage never found a large audience. Americans wanted real, rugged pickups or hot little coupes — and this strange blend of the two simply didn’t click in the market. Production lasted from 1982 to 1984, and just over 37,000 were made, an extremely low production figure for the massive American industry in this era, and likely only a fraction of what Chrysler wanted and expected. As a result, the Rampage was quietly consigned to history after the 1984 model year.
Sorry kidz, this low-mileage collector is sold!
Thanks to corrosion and neglect, they are very thin on the ground today! The Rampage is now a rare collector’s item with a small but passionate base of enthusiasts who are convinced it was a good vehicle that arrived at the wrong time. Chances are they’re right; like a compact version of the Ford Ranchero and Chevy El Camino, the Rampage was a niche car when it was new and its a niche car today: it still seems like an oddity! Rampages are cult favorites among Mopar fans. They’re beloved for their oddball charm, and potential as race-prepped autocross toys or turbo swap candidates. Like most mid 80’s front drivers, it isn’t beautiful or sexy, but it is interesting…and that’s more than you can say about most of today’s utility vehicles!
Give credit to Mattel for picking up on the appeal of the Rampage, for they released their first casting of this car in 1984 as part of their original Real Riders line. The casting, designed by Larry Wood, featured:
This is the version I remember on the pegs @ Toys R Us back in the day! I never had this one, but I think my younger brother did!
Bright red paint with bold stripes
“2.2” callouts on the hood
Real rubber tires
And — perhaps most memorably — a small ATV molded into the bed, a fun nod to the Rampage’s “weekend warrior” potential.
The uber rare and valuable Mexican market variant with white interior
This version ran in 1984–1986 and today is a highly sought-after collectible, especially early Hong Kong versions with gray hubs and the ultra-rare Mexican variant with white interior, highly prized by collectors.
Fast forward to 2012 — designer Mark Jones revived the Rampage in die-cast form. This time around it got the hot rod treatment, complete with:
Aggressive widebody flares
Racing side exhausts
Bed-mounted spare tire and fuel cell
Full roll cage
Deep-dish wheels
Since then, this modern Hot Wheels Rampage has appeared in multiple series:
In 2021 the Rampage was released again, looking similar to the 2014 retool but with some additional changes, most notably that the classic ATV 3-wheeler was flipped around and now faced forward rather than backward. This version was slightly enlarged from previous releases and is still in production today!
The Hot Wheels casting of the Rampage’s earlier linemate, the Dodge Omni 024, also has a spot on the Drag City diorama!
The original 1984 version feels like a slice of 1980s car culture, while the newer casting imagines what a full-on Rampage track toy might look like today. The Hot Wheels Dodge Rampage is a perfect example of the kind of vehicle that flies under the radar but delights when rediscovered. Whether you grab the OG Real Riders version for your vintage display, or the modern fantasy build for your Hot Trucks lineup, it’s a Mopar oddity worth having in your collection. As you can see, there’s one right there on Bear Valley Road driving past the parking lot of Drag City, its driver headed north to the inland recreation area, no doubt ready to unleash that Honda ATV on an unsuspecting California wildnerness! Like so many Hot Wheels, its an awesome remembrance of things past!
A lot of people go to bed around here at 10:30 at night
And, well, I was walking along when suddenly
These jocks in this bright blue pickup drove up
It had KC lights, tractor tires, everything but the CB
It was a life-size Hot Wheels car for some dumb rich kid, right”
One of my most recent cases, the additions to which I’ve been blogging about over the last few months. Let’s see what “Skynet” can do with this….
Legendary Hot Wheels designer Larry Wood; this man helped make my happy childhood!!
Amongst the many jobs I can see being replaced by AI almost overnight is one of the coolest in the world: working for Mattel as a designer dreaming up fantasy Hot Wheels! Those of us who grew up with and love 1:64 diecasts are probably familiar with names like Larry Wood, Ira Gifford, and “founding father” Harry Bentley Bradley, as well as some of the newer guys like Phil Riehlman and Ryu Asada, but even if you don’t know their names, you know their work! One has to think, though, that there won’t be much of a job market for guys like this in the future now that anyone with a Mattel employee badge can dial up any of 4 or 5 dozen AI’s on their smartphone browser and ask for a cool car design! There’s a little more to it than that, of course: the dies have to be made, but hey, that’s all done by computer these days as well, and has been for a long time, so, yep: the 80/20 world of the future has arrived! The only question the folks at Mattel – and everywhere else – should be asking themselves is: who’s going to buy Hot Wheels when no one has a job?
The “Shadow Mk II-A,” a Can-Am style fantasy car that sure looks real to me….and here’s one now, being unloaded from its transport by a racing team at – where else but – Drag City!
But hey, the capital crowd will figure that out later, right? The rest of us are just along for the ride, so let’s take a look at what Skynet came up with when I told it I wanted to see some of the newer Hot Wheels “fantasy rides” at 1:1! What would it look like, I wondered, if a bunch of them showed up at Drag City to show off in the mid-day sun on a summer race day?
The “Custom Otto” looks so much like a real car that it shouldn’t be hard to buy it sitting the parking lot on race day, and so, here it is! A spectator just drove it to the track!
I could have asked for some classics like the “Twin Mill” or the “Splittin’ Image” but even though those are classics they are little “old hat” these days, don’t you think? I wanted to see some impressions of the some of the newer wild things rendered as if they were real. And I got a few, but here’s what’s really interesting: in at least half the cases, the AI misfired despite being given reference photos and produced images that looked very little like the actual castings, but in some of those cases, what the AI did produce was still very cool, and in a couple instance what I got was actually cooler than the – er – “real thing!”
Not entirely accurate in every detail, but you can probably recognize this as the “Hammerhead” (later inexplicably renamed “Street Shaker”), the car allegedly designed by NASCAR legend Dale EarnhartHere’s one the AI really nailed, strange since it’s a very extreme design: this is the “RD-06,” one of my “Hot Wheels Hunter” Jason’s favorites!This render of the “Hoto Roto” is still very “toylike” with the chrome Rotary engine looking like plastic, but the overall look and details are very good, and the proportions are maybe a little off, but its close! This a very cool design. even if the engine is technically impossible, being portrayed essentially as a “cutaway!”This is a design I only just recently became aware of when I picked up a couple of battered used ones in the 50¢ bin at Colorado Diecast, but regardless, this is a pretty good rendering of the “Dieselboy!”
So, yeah…if I were one of those people who had managed to score that dream job of being a designer for Mattel, I might be a little worried right now. And here’s why!
Some of the AI misfires at representing actual Hot Wheels are interesting in themselves! LEFT: what was supposed to be the “Mad Fast” came out looking like a more generic but still cool Dragster from the “Slingshot era.” CENTER: This rendering of the “Mod Rod” didn’t come off looking much different than a ’32 Ford coupe, but hey, its a really cool one! RIGHT: Ditto with this attempt at the famous “Rodger Dodger,” but even if it isn’t right, this blown ’69 Charger with purple paint and flames still looks mighty good!
One of the most interesting Hot Wheels designs of the past couple of decades IMHO is the “Dodge XP-02,” interesting in part because it uses the company name of a real car and yet it isn’t a real car. I’ve done some digging, but I can find no record of Chrysler Corporation (or what was Chrysler Corporation before that worthless European investment firm Stellantis took it over and ruined it) ever producing anything like this, even on paper. So that’s something I don’t get, but, anyway: but when I asked an AI to render it as a real car, it misfired in a way that produced a couple of totally new designs that are themselves extremely cool. Here was the first effort, and lemmetellya: this may not be a Hot Wheels fantasy casting, but it sure as hell should be!!!
Shades of the Dodge Charger MkIII show car modeled by Matchbox in 1970??? I don’t know what this is, but I like it!
A second attempt at rendering the same car again produced a misfire that’s still really cool, like a modern Audi R8 or Lamborghini with a bubble-shaped glass area:
Get the execs @ VW/Audi on the phone, I’ve got something for them to look at!
Not sure of the identity of the sinister looking hooded figure standing behind both these cars…perhaps a humanoid representative of the AI, a-la Mr. Smith from The Matrix?
Now you just knew I was gonna have to a throw a Matchbox in! Here’s the AI interpretation of the “Hot Rod Draguar” from 1971!
Well obviously, one could go on like this for hours or days, and thanks to the recent Hot Wheels “Legends Tour” making its way around the world, many people are! Right now you can find much cooler renders than these made with more powerful (read: more expensive) AI’s than your bumble blogger’s meagre resources have access too, but I’m still pretty floored by these images, as it helps with the notion that in a “perfect world” these cars would be real! So, are y’all ready to climb into your amniotic fluid pod and plug those wires into your neck and head to the track in that perfect world? We may be irrelevant to the future, but there’s a perfect world waiting for us just around the corner! Gotta be some comfort in that, eh?
Maybe I just have a “Bad Ratitude” about everyone being replaced by computers….so c’mon ever’body, pick a favorite Hot Wheels, grab your li’l device, and try it out! You, too, can now be a Hot Wheels designer!
What a score! The satin black ’67 El Camino! “The Hunter” got the only one in the store!
Welp, another Wednesday, another frenetic week (actually, 2!) of Hot Wheels hunting! And a few Matchboxes and a Johnny Lightning, as well! While nothing major has changed at the track, there are a couple of very small updates to the diorama I’ll point out here while spending more time looking at the stuff that didn’t make the diorama but did make my mountainous collection of cars!
The MBX Porsche 356! Finally got it; got 2, in fact! One in dark blue-green and one in white!
Me n’ J @ dinner
The biggest news of the week actually had nothing to do with Mattel, but rather with today’s electronic equivalent! On the evening of June 5 I went out to Parker to see J after work. We planned to goto dinner at this new Mexican place that just opened up the street from his haus so I braved the driving rain, piloting The Cylon through the storm to arrive safely, after which, naturally, the rain stopped: it only lasts long enough for you to drive through it! As we were watching the sunset rainbows and getting ready to go back out, he told me, “I have something cool to show you, but I have to show you later, because if I show it to you now, you won’t want to leave the house.”
Ah, June 5! I should have known! Yes, the biggest news the world over that day was the long-awaited release of the Nintendo “Switch Deux,” and Jason showed the same prowess with video game hunting that he does with Hot Wheels, when he just showed up at his local Costco early that day and picked one right up like it was no big deal! All over the country people were camping out in front of big box stores trying to snag one, and my Hunter just walked in and grabbed one off a shelf like it was just a thing, and it goes without saying that he got it with the one-IMHO the only-game that matters: MarioKart World!
That night’s Hot Wheels Hunt at the local Target, where Mario Ephemera was everywhere!
So it turned into a late night, because 4 margs later we were walking through the local Tarjhey, since we had to do some Hot Wheels hunting after dinner! It helps work off the calories, you see! By nightfall we were just cracking open MarioKart World, and by the time we went to bed that night- around 1:00am!-I had a whole mess of new blister packs to tear into when I got home from work the next day, since we didn’t have much time to open many of those purchases that night: we were too busy Karting!
Of course I couldn’t stay away from that game, so that weekened I was back for more, which also meant…more Hot Wheels! Imagine! Dinner that night was at a local sushi place we hadn’t yet tried but will definitely be hitting again, and this time for our “calorie walk-off” we hit a local WallyWorld. Since I was with “The Hunter” we hit it at exactly the right time and dove into a 4-sided black and yellow display bin set up for The Hot Wheels Legends Tour, which most Wallyworlds are promoting with cool little knicknacks like water bottles, license plate frames, and T-shirts. “The Hunter” hit the jackpot yet again, and I brought home 15 more cars (sheesh, where am I gonna put all these things???)
The June 8 haul from WallyWorld!
So that Sunday I had to start opening at least some of them, and here’s a couple that did make it to Drag City!
Too cool for school: this Johnny Lightning ’66 GTO just had to get added to the Drag City parking lot!
Who would replace a Hot Wheels Premium Metal/Metal Real Rider that came on a flatbed as part of a “Car Culture” set with a mainline? Well, I would, if that mainline is as awesome as this ’67 GT500!
Hindsight is always 20/20 and I wish I’d bought a couple more copies of a couple of these new releases, but I’m so sodden with Hot Wheels now that saying “I should have bought more” sounds insane. Of course, there’s always the counter-point: that there’s no such thing as “too many Hot Wheels!” Because…what do we always say here at Drag City? Altogether now…
