:D I also have a kitty named Portia, who coincidentally looks just like yours. When I took her to the vet for the first time, they misspelled her name as “Porsche”.

They dyed me this color! What better way to hide the truth?

It also might have been Brooklyn or National City. The description fits all of them.

I’m originally from Granite City - I was thinking Brooklyn, too.

The key is to be realistic about your expectations, a good practice not just with cars but with people and everything else. My dream was a DeLorean. I knew it wouldn’t be particularly quick, and knew that the unassisted steering would be heavy at low speeds, but it turned out to be much, much better than the hearsay…

Yep. I used to work with a guy who you’d swear was from Arkansas or Oklahoma. He was from Riverside.

Yeah, that HF jack is awesome. I already had one of their aluminum racing jacks, but I bought the high-lift one specifically to put it under the differential cradle and lift the whole ass end of my rusty Jag in the air to bleed the rear brakes. 

Heavy? Only about 2800 pounds. Slow? Slower than a Porsche 911, but faster than a contemporary 280ZX or RX-7. Awkward? Only in that it’s very low and has those weird tollbooth windows. Unreliable? In some places the electrical system is a bit of a bodge, but this can be remedied. Chain drive camshafts mean no timing…

AMC/Renault were also planning on bringing the Renault Alpine GTA to the US, but that went away with the Chrysler acquisition.

The worst ones are the jobs that *should* be straightforward, but aren’t. I mean, you sort of know that some jobs will be a lot of work, and you just dig in and get it done. Others are so unreasonably difficult for what they are, that it’s maddening.

I had a ‘94. 4.3 TBI, M/T, 4WD. Steel wheels, vinyl seats. Apart from an alternator failure under warranty, NOTHING broke on that truck. If you changed the oil every now and then, replaced the pads and rotors when they wore out, these things would run forever. The tinworm finally got mine.

Pretty sure that’s a Cadillac Northstar or the Olds equivalent.

Heh. Me too, along with a DeLorean, a V12 Jaguar, a Triumph, and a Datsun. This is gonna be hilarious.

The late Charley Hexom raced very competively in SCCA road racing. His cars had manual gearboxes with a pushbutton vacuum-assist clutch.

Based on the replies, it sounds like this happens more often than I thought. My dad drove off with somebody else’s Plymouth Volare at the drugstore when I was a kid. He realized it was the wrong car when he noticed some cardboard boxes in the back seat that definitely weren’t there before. When he got back to the…

Young people have never been able to afford expensive sports cars, or often new cars of any sort. I didn’t buy a new car until I’d been out of college and working for four years, and even then it was an S-10 with vinyl upholstery, steelies, and a manual gearbox. Before that I had a ‘66 Datsun, a ‘73 Pontiac ambulance,…

I loved the Marcus Brody cameo in the lecture hall at the end. Perfect.

Hmm...Surprisingly few in the first movie. I think there were more in “Grand Prix”. 

I met these fellows at an engineering fair at Lincoln Cathedral last year. Extremely engaging, nice guys. Good to see they got their record.