Part of the reason these look different to you is because these were shot on medium format Kodachrome transparency film, so the negatives are much larger and less grainy than the 35mm negatives you’re used to looking at. The bigger reason they look better is because these are scanned from the actual negatives, the old…

To quote Krhodes1 from another comment:

I’ve also had a good experience with WipeNew for the trim on my family’s 97 4Runner. I put it on and it lasted at least two years while being parked outside.

But imagine if all of the buttons were impossible to feel and blinded you at night? NOW THAT’S THE FUTURE!

He just meant you were supposed to wear the hinges in for 50 years for optimal noise level. Mine don’t squeak. Otherwise yes, the big difference on the Falcon is that it’s the sound of rattling metal instead of rattling plastic.

I didn’t say it was impossible to convert more modern cars to electric, just extremely difficult and inefficient. It’s easy to say “just convert the A/C to being powered by an electric motor” but if you’ve ever built anything you know that the amount of time and fabricating that goes into something like that is…

Yes, there are many parts of the problem with climate change, and many approaches to solving it. But there are literally thousands and thousands of more practical things to do than converting existing cars to electric. It’s cool, but there’s no practical way to scale it up. There are not going to be tens of thousands…

*patience

“The IFS/IRS Rovers are phenomenal offroad, legitimately some of, if not the best stock offroading capability.”

This ties into a thing I’ve been thinking about. The longer crazy gun owners (not the sane ones) and the NRA stall any responsible legislation on gun ownership, the harder it is all going to crash down on them in the end. They’ll end up with more ownership freedom if they just do the sane thing and compromise now than…

I wonder if the GPS system in these still works?

I’ve never seen one in Colorado, I’m going to guess because there were never any here in the first place. So I have no real idea of how they compare to other cars of the era beyond being more complicated.

His main reason for wanting a different car is so that his rich clients stop making fun of him. You can’t buy a car as expensive as theirs for $30k, so the only solution left is to go weird. Old cars can have a lot more status than what they’re technically worth, which again is the main reason he’s looking for a new…

All these people complaining think driving an old car is way harder than it actually is.

It does look a lot better as black, but you’d still have to worry about hitting to rocker panels on things. It would be frustating to have to worry about ground clearance in a car this old, especially because the rest of the car hasn’t been lowered.

A little, but it wouldn’t really fix the problem.

Two things:

It would look somewhat better painted black, but the ground clearance of the car is still ruined compared to stock. If they had moved the edges a few inches inboard the clearance would still be ruined, but at least it wouldn’t look weird.

The problem is that by sticking the battery pack underneath they’ve ruined the Beetle’s appearance and ground clearance, giving it the “droopy fat guy” look so familiar from modern cars.

They were gone for a while until I think someone realized that erasing the entire show was maybe an overreaction to his offenses (not defending him, just saying he wasn’t the only one who worked on the show for 40 or whatever years). Just click the year tabs at the top of the page: