I’m imagining some cascading system of failures someday resulting in your Model S bursting through your closed garage door like the Kool Aid man

I am now disappointed you thought of snagging that name before I did.

I want my eulogy written by whoever does these press releases.

My love of Funfetti is tampered by the thought that it is also cherished by murderous psychopaths.

“H-Bomb of Justice”

Shitting on things that badly is definitely ‘Rated-R’. Accurate choice of username.

It could easily be pulled off by a piece of road debris, long grass, etc. Then you would have no protection from the nut backing off. Not to mention that rotating it a bit to clear the head would have removed most of the clip force, allowing it to be pulled out even easier.

Amazing/horrifying. This picture and your story is why used car purchases get an hour or two up on jackstands and a good once-over nowadays for me.

My greatest surprise, though it was through no fault but my own, was with my Porsche 944 Turbo/951. I had put on an aftermarket turbo, which on these cars is located underneath a long, curving aluminum intake that sweeps from the head on the passenger side all the way over to the driver’s side, and things were going…

Yes, it is a bad idea. Cotter pins are folded, and therefore prevented from being pulled off, for a reason.

One of many gems from the previous owner....

I just threw up a little

Shortening a driveshaft is pretty much free if you have a bandsaw and welder to do the shortening part. Keep the cut perfectly square/square it afterwards, mark the timing of the pieces before the cut, line them up after the cut for weld....Never had to re-balance a driveshaft doing it this way. Not to mention this…

And if you had to change the brake booster, you quickly wished you had gotten a not-hemi!

Flat blade screwdrivers are arcane as well. Does that mean we throw them all away for directional gravity boosters? The notion that car development has languished is laughable- it has consistently driven some of the most important innovations in the fields of manufacturing and technology. Did you know that the…

Ceramic toilets have been virtually unchanged for decades, as well! Why can’t we innovate just for the sake of innovation?! Why must we always have a purpose!

I would be shocked if that was a low-mileage car. The 85.5 and up are known for the magical dissolving odometer gear that means most stopped working before they hit 100k miles. I have yet to sit in a 951 with a working odometer (with original gear- they sell replacements).

Neat! So quirky!

Yep. But you’ll never get away from the sedan roots if you’re serious about competing with it. Most people don’t care. Their cars will never see a track or come close to a cone in an autocross. I’m the vocal minority that wants my cake and would like to eat it, too!

The 4C is a very neat car and I think there was a place for it. I don’t think that place was as a years-delayed model that comes with trying to establish their own dealer presence and making a 3 series competitor in one of the most crowded markets in the world. Agreed, Alfa Romeo is like a marginally effective home…