This design looks pretty timeless though, and will be easy to keep looking current with small changes like paint color. It has enough DNA of the originals without being cheesy, and they’ve always looked great.

I actually liked the new Z less after seeing the comparison shot with the original, haha. It’s usually a mistake to show the new model of a car next to the original, especially when the original is from the 60s. So much modern car design language comes from the 60s that the same designs reinterpreted usually look…

I have good news for you, they’re still available. Behold the STA Super Traxion.

Man some kind of International diesel in this would be really cool. My first choice would just be stock, but that would be second. LS would be one of my last choices.

I can’t stand the look of those, just leave the sealed beams in.

For Ford at least, 1968 was the first year of collapsible steering columns. And they don’t work with a hinge, but rather nylon studs that can sheer off and allow the column to telescope in on itself. Picture the way a shock absorber telescopes, but only once, and using the force of your body smacking the end of it.

If an old Toyota has anything in common with old American cars, the windshield is probably thick glass at least, so needing a new windshield due to cracks is a less common problem than on modern cars.

The probe probes the brobe.

My neighbor had an XC60 and I saw them with a loaner car from the dealership more often than I checked the oil on my 52 year old daily driver. My neighbor wasn’t handy so all those shop visits could’ve been for things as simple as refilling the washer fluid as far as I know, but I’d honestly be nervous to borrow a…

Gotcha, can’t argue with paranoid.

Yeah, I feel like if it’s actually having cooling issues there’s something wrong. My Falcon is 30 years older and handles the really steep passes here in Colorado at wide open throttle with no signs of overheating, and it’s doing them daily. The 1997 4Runner my dad owns gets driven across the country regularly and the…

The trailer 10 seconds in is missing a wheel on the far side.

Also an interesting example of how on early cars articulation was half achieved by just letting the chassis of the car be a wet noodle.

Damn, you’re not kidding:

In a vehicle with a real low-range four wheeling isn’t any harder on the clutch than regular street driving is in high-range.

I will say, I do like the new Bronco, but it has the same problems all new cars have. It looks bloated and fat, and the windows are too small. So I Photoshopped my fix. First image is the actual way it’ll be produced, the second is how I wish it looked.

I’m here to counter all the people saying they tried to daily old cars and gave up. A person can absolutely daily an old car, they just have to want to do as much work on it themselves as possible. If I was unwilling or unable to do ANY work on my Falcon myself it would be a major pain in the ass to take car of all…

My brother bought a Toyota Matrix last year for $2500 I’m pretty sure, and while it is deeply unsexy, it is very reliable even with over 200k on the clock. The Pontaic Vibe is even cheaper (because Pontiac) but is just the same car rebranded. They were both even available with AWD I think.

My Falcon doesn’t have visibility as good as the Volkswagens in this article. But even so, driving it and a modern car back to back it’s shocking how shitty the visibility is out of new vehicles. The Falcon doesn’t need a backup camera because you can just see the exact end of the trunk and the rear corners of the car…

Music pisses me off, but trash makes me wildly angry, because I’M the one who cleans it up. I dispersed camp a lot, and I bring trash bags with me now to pack out all the awful shit lazy people leave behind. Plastic wrappers, cans, I’ve even come across literal buckets of shit just sitting in the woods that people…