I meant to go straight to that scene and check, but I seem to be rewatching more than that.

God, I love Jensen's face. Good face.

From a purely non-emotional, practical perspective: the Impala gets crappy gas mileage. From what I could find when Googling, it gets somewhere between 16-19 miles per gallon. It's more and more difficult to find replacement parts. And it makes it easier for any law enforcement agency seeking a Winchester to spot the driver.

[link] will give you more details (technically for the 68). Primary source materials, baby!

Realistically, it's a huge bear of a tank to fill and munches fuel like popcorn, but the same could probably be said of the truck he was driving. (What was that truck? Someone get a make/model on it?)

Dean's truck is a Ford F150 (wait, google says maybe F250)--that much I'm impressed with myself for having noticed. Web research says it's 88 or 89.

You know, they lost a Campbell in that episode. No one seems to care. Well, Sam makes a face, but that could be anything.

I have an irrational desire for a shot of Sam getting out of his car. I just want to see him unfold.

Also, that scene from the unaired trailer.

An 88 250 4WD would get 14 city/17 highway with the 6 cylinder engine, and even less than that with the 8. About the same with 2WD (a little better, but marginally so, and only in the 8). The 150 gets about 15/17 in the 6.

So, no real gas savings with the Ford.

There were only two deaths on the 66-day Mayflower voyage, one of the unnamed sailor who cursed the Pilgrims and blasphemed. William Bradford wrote that "it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard." The other was of a young man who died of illness two days before the end of the voyage. Then more than half the settlers and crew died of scurvy and disease over the next few months wintering on the ship.

Okay, I am pondering whether there could have been vampires on the Mayflower. Help me.

That sounds like proof to me. Mysterious illness resulting in death.

God, I love Jensen's face. Good face.

Yup. I can re-watch him endlessly.

In just the opening montage, he nails the expressions so well, with so little dialogue. It's beautiful.

Rewatching the Sam hug, I'm thinking we're seeing some variant of "Good, good. Check." from Sam. Where we might be expecting "Deeeeeeaan." Except he's kept some sort of tabs on Dean for a year, so NSM.

The book series "Blue Bloods" is all about the Mayflower vampires.

Crossover fic!