It’s not exactly a secret that Italian cars are unreliable pains in the ass.

Those wheels are really cool, they’re a great example of how good having sidewall can look.

“I suspect the car is at the age where you fix things The Right Way, planning to keep it forever, only to get rid of it in six months.”

I had a similar feeling the time I was parts-searching for my 68 Falcon in a junkyard and came across a very rusted out and mostly stripped 69 Falcon. But even though the car was mostly gone and had no doors, front clip, or windshield, there were still personal touches like a digital clock taped to the dashboard and…

I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure in most places you can just pour coolant down the drain. It’s glycerine, which water treatment plants are already equipped to filter out because of glycerine soaps.

My point is that this Falcon would be a lot easier to live with driving every day than a lot of other vintage cars because parts are cheap and plentiful, its reasonably reliable, and gets decent gas mileage. It’s not the most fun vintage car, but its still more interesting than a newer car.

If this Land Cruiser has actually been maintained well it probably still has another 100k miles left in it, which is the same as you could expect from buying a new Volkswagen. It’s built well, and is one of the last SUVs with solid axles all around.

This is an old car you can daily drive. It has no extra features to go wrong like a higher end car from the 60s would have, parts are cheap for it, and it’ll get decent gas mileage. This isn’t the type of car you buy to display in your garage.

The Zapp family from Argentina has been driving around the world in a 1928 Graham-Paige for over 15 years now with their kids. I’m pretty sure their Graham-Paige has done more real offroading than the black thing above will, and their car gets bonus points for being mostly original.

You mean repeating family first names like Henry? Isn’t the English monarchy famous for only having like four names in the last thousand years?

Henry Ford III is actually Henry Ford’s great-great-grandson. What I know from this article doesn’t make him sound great, but it would be pretty dickish to judge someone by their great-great-grandparents actions.

Everything has a downside and it’s really hard to figure out what the balance of pros and cons are for every option. EV cars don’t burn fossil fuels (depending on the power grid of course) but as an object an electric car is much worse for the environment to manufacture than an ICE car because of how many precious…

Yep, it looked like the wheel in the previous generation shattered and folded under in the crash test, whereas the wheel in the new crash test didn’t shatter and stayed vertical which hit the firewall/rocker panel and launched the Jeep over.

Dude, almost everything is completely arbitrary and mediated by social agreement, the point is that this name doesn’t follow that social agreement.

Sorry, I misinterpreted that.

Clicking the discussion bubble button has never made the comments load successfully for me any of the times I’ve tried, which is about once for every 10 times I have to refresh the page.

pasghetticode wasn’t even talking about an old car, he was saying letting his kid ride in a small car from the 2010s would be selfish. By his logic you’re a selfish parent if to let a kid ride with you unless you can afford the absolute newest safest - and most expensive - cars available. That doesn’t seem like a…

The implication there is that any parent who would let their kid ride in that car (it’s a car from the 2010s, it’s not even an old car) is selfish.

Who said anything about black and white, and who here isn’t considering risks? Pasghetticode insinuated that parents who allow their kids to ride in anything less than the absolute safest vehicle available are selfish. I pointed out that my parents must’ve been selfish by allowing me to do any of the activities I…

At the same ages I was doing the activities I mentioned I would’ve also loved riding in a vintage car as much as I enjoyed anything else. I wasn’t riding in vintage cars or downhill mountain biking at 4 months old.