It does blow my mind that 30yrs ago an American car company managed to not only make such a power dense small displacement dohc v8, but it is tough as nails as well.

The Intech aka Cobra motor is so much better than the Deathstar. I have a 93 Mark VIII and a 98 Continental. They both have a gazillion miles on them, both running strong. The transmissions are better even though people want to demonize the 4r70w and ax4n. I learned years ago to keep a Ford trans alive you have to…

I meant the entire rest of the car. Overall shit build.

Add to that Cadillac’s low quality build in general.

“This is the car that makes GM guys Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, or Honda people.”

Exactly this! It is the car that made me go German. Best part is that when the head-bolts decide to rip out of the aluminum block, it is damn near impossible to find anyone interested in doing the work to repair it.

LOL!   If Jalopnik still had COTD, this should win!

I had a dealer try to upsell me. With a straight face, I responded that I preferred a 78% blend. He told me they couldn’t do that.

Blues musicians, on the otherhand.

Oh, absolutely. About eight years ago, when my wife and I were buying our first house, I was looking for a house in the $80k to $100k range. I was approved for something insane like $265k and that’s what I was shown. I eventually said something like ‘I don’t care what I’m approved for, I cannot afford that payment.’ I…

The fact that YOUR broker gets paid more in a real estate deal if you pay a higher amount is such a fucked-up incentive. I tried to get a broker to work under a structure where I said “here is my budget, we’ll set a fixed commission based on that, and if I pay less for a house then your commission increases based upon…

Last two houses I bought, I found. Even though I had an agent working with me. Same situation, the agent was only interested in showing me things at the top of my price range. My current house, I was driving to look at another house the agent found when I saw a “for sale by owner”. The place she was showing me was…

When one of my (many...) cars died I had a good job but bad credit. I needed a car. I went to my credit union with a 600ish score and got a 9% loan for $4,000 over two years. Pretty terrible. But I had a good job, bought a $4,000 car, and paid the car off in a year. And I kept it for like, three more after that. So…

I had a Navigator with the 32V Mod motor, it ran fine on 87, but I put in 89 when I was towing, it called for 91.

That science-nerd-kid can barely handle Mandark; I think science-nerd-MAN will have him bagged and deep-sixed in no time.

What I did is support the hub assembly with various pieces of metal until it is level, then I use an old bearing race to press out the old bearing.  The trick is to soak it with penetrating lube all around it several times (both removal and install).  And yes they will sound like a gunshot when they blow.  Our shop…

But does it have less blood spatter than Dexter’s lab?

No joke I had to do all 4 wheel bearings on one.  They are press in hub bearings!  Literally need to pull the whole hub assembly off the car to press them out.  The 5R55 is a POS.  Much better bet to get something with the old AOD4 which is rock solid.

Remember when people were content to have a patch of grass, a few lawn chairs and a BBQ in their yard? This is just depressing. Two fucking broken down shit box pickup tractors, plus whatever the other junk is. It’s bad enough having to buy from shady curbsiders and dealers, now it’s shopping at superfund sites?

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