Truth about the 67-72 trucks being the best looking.

Agreed, and we had a similar experience, the nurse checked and made sure the seat was properly installed before they let us leave.  Firefighters and Police are often trained as a public service, and if you go to the local fire department you can often get help installing the seat if you have doubts.  There is very…

You would not believe how many people don’t follow the guidelines for installing seats, switching them to forward facing before they meet height and weight requirements, or don't position the clip correctly.  Just from casual observations I would not be surprised if 1 in 4 children were in some way incorrectly.

My understanding is that the headlight ratings are one of the newer tests. Like the offset, then the small offset crash in the first round of testing quite a few cars fail the tests because the design process for a new car is so long. My 2018 Civic is much the same, it has the best headlights of any car I have owned…

Because they don't realize that the repeat buyers come in looking for a caravan without shopping around.  Then when they say, eventually, we don't make that anymore and the salesperson tries to get them into a Pacifica that they will indeed shop around an maybe get a Honda or Kia.  They should have just gone caravan,…

I was thinking this would look great as a hearse like the ghost busters car, but then you would lose the wonderfully crafted rear end

I want to hate this, but the execution had so much thought put into it.  I'm a fan, even if it has no real practical use.

The PT cruiser as well, aimed at young people and immediately appealed to old people.  Unless the car is aimed at d-bags with disposable income.  Then they seem to buy them in droves.

It seems a little risky in the Mercedes part too, here changed his line when the Porsche was coming by fast.  This might be just me, but give hours into this race when someone if faster than me I would let them by if they were clearly faster than me.  I guess two things you can count on, racing drivers won't give an…

Name checks out, although I'm not going to lie, I made the same connection

I think it’s one of those quirky cars that is very practical and a little funky. For whatever reason cars like this get a disproportionate amount of distain by the same people who complain about every small car looking the same.  

As difficult it is for a shock company to make a valve that adjusts the damper on a linear fashion I wouldn’t call this a simple solution. Looking at shock dyno plots, adjustable shocks are not a simple thing to get right. I would imagine at this point the shocks in this car are every bit as sophisticated and…

Fair enough. The manuals were cool, some of the relevance is gone because during the recession the parts catalogue was decimated but it is still a lot of good information from factory engineers. I miss the old Mopar, because the parts fit so well compared to the aftermarket we have to deal with today. It worked out…

Believe it or not I have that book during in my storage unit. It often gives you the specific part number to order for each modification.

Back in the era when Mopar ran an add thanking Ford and Chevy for using their hemi in their funny cars.

I grew up reading Mopar Action and Mopar Muscle and a couple times a year you would see a heroic slant six build with milled heads,the rare aluminum block, a hyper pack 4 barrel intake and many thousands of speed parts.  They are cool, but all that effort usually netted close to the power of a smog 360

Idk, with him you can see a point to the build. The starting point might be questionable, but my gut says he wants the challenge of seeing what he can resurrect and get to and from Moab. It’s like a victory lap for a Jeep that has fallen on hard times.

This could be a fun build if they just put a 318 or 360 in it, otherwise its a lot of work for something that doesn't have the power to have much fun

Isn’t generation X pretty much aging out of Nascar.  I'm one of those millennials everyone keeps complaining about and I will be 35 this August.

Was the house brown with an inline six?