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Why do all the head lines on Deadspin have every word capitalized? As a student who was good in language arts it gets me every time.

I seem to recall buying three and a half feet of extension to change the starter in girlfriendzilla’s 1980's XJ, so I’m good to go on my E39!

I’d be all over this except the Peoples Republic of California will want 35 years at 160% of the registration fee tax to ride it here.

For one, everyone involved in LA wanted too large a slice of the pie, making it prohibitively expensive to put/have a team here.

You left out the part “and don’t do it very long”.

Yep. So no heater boxes, back up light switch, etc. Saves a little time.

Same car. It’s been in the family 45 years. My folds DD’d it for many years. Now we just run it in vintage races. We have two gear boxes, one for short tracks and one for long.

Ouch. Just ouch.

I learned a trick from the AAA guy on girlfriendzilla’s XJ. We had the same turn the key, click, nothing problem.

My 82 year old dad and I can drop the engine and tranny, change the transmission, and reinstall in around two hours*. It doesn’t get much easier than that!

The good older days

Makes perfect sense. We don’t need no stinkin’ handles.

That made me chuckle.

Because I have lots more experience working on mid/rear engine, transaxle flat 4/6 cars than front engine/torque tube/rear transmission cars.

Much easier to work on than a 944 too.

The only good PBR is a

Too many squares in those circles, I think.

There’s one at 5:10 in the vid.