Sorry, on the internet it’s usually safe to assume snark. This is a great example of another part of the internet, which is an argument about literally nothing at all.

I can imagine in Japan it may be more balanced, but abroad the hypersexualization is decidedly focused in one direction.

Or maybe a lot of anime is unnecessarily sexualized to an insane degree. Listen to yourself while you defend this by saying that some other anime thing drew a battleship with boobs and a skimpy outfit. A battleship.

You can snark “Cool.” at me as if it’s weird that someone responded to you on a blog, but I thought I’d chime in to say I actually like mine from current experience in a non nostalgia-tinged way. I’m very sorry you found them uncomfortable.

I loooooove seeing cars like that being driven by people you just know are the original owners who have never thought to replace it, because it just still works.

That tailgate is one of the coolest and smartest car features I’ve ever seen. It also looks like it probably had great visibility for a wagon.

Yeah but while you slide around you’re very comfortable.

I’m biased.

I experience this every day with my Falcon. I’m pretty sure it was literally THE most boring car a person could buy in 1968. Honestly it’s still invisible to more people than you’d expect, but the many others who notice it generally love it. I’ve heard so many times from people over 50 that riding in it feels like…

And I’m currently spending thousands of miles in one of those seats, and I don’t think they suck. They’re bad for high speed aggressive driving on tight twisting roads, but for road trips, sitting in traffic, driving on residential streets, taking a nap in a park with the windows open, they’re great.

I don’t think you can get a “project” car totally sorted out unless you daily drive it. When you daily drive it, everything that will break does, and you reach a point where stuff stops breaking as often because you’ve already fixed it. You have to use the most expensive parts you can find though, otherwise you have…

I don’t get it either. NY and LA are my two least favorite cities I’ve ever been to. Being in either makes me feel like humanity is a giant swarm of trash producing ants that should be destroyed by a meteor.

Oh jeez. People who replace carbs with other models for no reason drive me nuts. If your car is driving like crap, it’s because the current carb needs work, not because you need an entirely different model. Ford wouldn’t have sold a car that stalled at every stoplight. Especially because switching carbs can cause…

That sounds about right for the videos I’ve seen from Chinese dashcams. Less insane than Russia, just depressingly incompetent. No one beats the US for ugly yelling people in pickups.

You can daily a project, just make it a simple car with easy to find parts. Pretty much any low spec 60s American car is like this. Falcons, Fairlanes, Darts, Valiants, they all have about 6 wires in them and parts you can acquire immediately by walking into any parts store in the country. Rebuilding a single barrel…

Well, you’d have to live in LA, but at least you’d be able to actually drive cars then. It would be fun to read wrenching stories where half of the story wasn’t just about trying to find a spot to park the car.

If your 50 year old Ford is anything like my 50 year old Ford it sounds like your automatic choke is out of adjustment. If it’s too rich it’ll start on the first key turn but stall easily with any load for a few minutes, and if it’s too lean it’ll take a few tries to start below 50 degrees and also stall easily with…

Those Mack AC trucks are so good looking...

I have a couple thoughts.

That Model A Ford isn’t “already pretty cheap” because it’s never been worth more than it is now. It’s not like they used to be more collectible and aren’t anymore. If you look at the demographics of people that own and drive model As and Ts, almost all were born at least 30 to 50 years after the cars were built. It’s…