COTD!

Nobody wants my organs...

Pffft. Not trying hard enough...

Close one—I love me some Volvos, this one looks to be as nice an example of this era as you will find, and it is undeniably desirable. No matter how well it has been maintained, it’s still a FWD Volvo, however. I don’t want to fix it, I don’t want to pay to fix it, and for this price I’ll find something nicer that’s…

You are my hero, or at least you will be if you actually start your racing camp. Diversity is not really about skin color, it’s about having different stories to tell. I don’t share your disdain for the movie that started this discussion, but it ain’t Shakespeare and I appreciate your perspective on motorsport in…

Hey there, I’m currently out in Wahiawa so I spend less time in traffic, but I’m with you on being ready to leave when we go. HI is really, really great, but I would be extremely unhappy living here permanently.

Actually, it’s the opposite, more or less in the “not very fancy Japanese cars” market. Everything has low miles, because there’s nowhere to drive, and there is a constant cycle of military and other temporary residents that buy used cars when they arrive and unload them at “must sell” prices when they leave. Go check…

Though the property was listed as a “fixer upper”, when Bob learned his investment opportunity came with an unrestored example of a rare European car, he was all in.

Ralph Nader inducted into Automotive Hall of Fame. Really? Is there a Hall of Infamy?

“Had I ever adjusted points before? Did I know what points even looked like? No. But I was sure I could figure it out.”

I was expecting some sort of Orlove-esque obvious oversight, such as failing to heat the nut, not a big enough drive on the breaker bar, etc... In spite of some comments about un-staking the nut (looks sufficiently unbent to me...) this guy did everything reasonable first. The take-away? I need a torque multiplier in…

Not exactly. The tires are Legends car takeoffs and are run backwards on one side because they are camber shaved. They have to discard them per their rules, but they are perfect street tires for me as I run the side with plenty of tread on the inside to be sacrificed to the Gods of racing camber and toe.

So, judge this: 205/60 R13 (!) Federal 595's mounted backwards on one side. Hint, tires stamped INEX and I can get an unlimited supply of them for free...

Karst! Karst! Karst!

And in an odd scrambling of the information presented above, last sunday I won the stock FWD class at the local rallycross with my #41 Acura Integra while a rented EVO came in last. Though 42 or 421 are my usual numbers, because Hithicker’s Guide, and 421 is the road I learned to drive on.

Certainly a free car can be a terrible deal, but not a running one, so on that I agree, even if the entertaining use is to destroy as quickly as possible with off-road antics or gift to someone in need that desperately needs transportation to get to work. I also believe that many of these are not really as…

This is the first family car I remember growing up. It was not a Swinger per se, but Dad had optioned it with a few of the choice bits, specifically the lower final drive and the Hurst four on the floor. Dad drove Chrysler products because his Dad drove Chrysler products and so did Richard Petty.

Uh, I believe the “Swinger” was a trim level of the Dart, not a model name, but I could be wrong, and still...

You were still wrong.