If your sedan is so uncomfortable you take a Miata on your long trips it should tell you something.... Low operating costs are the expectation these days. In 60K miles, I put a battery, some tires a starter, and a whole shitload of fuel into my Fusion. Difference being, I drive it from San Antonio to NOLA every 6…

A horn ring. I get those, my 66 Amazon has one. I had never seen the weird turn indicator stalk thing. I guess I had just been lucky.

Now see those, I remember!

That's the high beam switch, isn't it?

Wow, super weird

What cars have horn buttons that aren’t on the steering wheel? I have owned vehicles ranging from 1959 to 2009 and they all had the horn on the wheel.

I’m also 6’2” and had that tragic moment when I realized I could never own a piece of small 60’s/70’s eurotrash. I bought a Miata some years back after finding out I don fit in any of the common TR-whatever’s, MG’s or Italian spyders. On the bright side, I later discovered Swedish cars. Go figure, even the small ones…

They're voting CP because a large portion of the Jalops are terrified of tools. Don't buy a project!!1!

I get that you’re a Jag guy. That’s fine. I’m equally mystified by your post about reliability issues with the Chevy 350. All I can tell you is that JTR conversions were common because dead jags were plentiful. Ajv8 wasn't even a thing back then.

I don't know much about them at all. I'm basing it on a small sample set from the late 90s. Happened to two different friends of mine. One junked his, the other did the JTR coversion. Its not an uncommon failure on any inline motor in a hot climate with an aging cooling system.

You objected to V8s in Jags, I’m just pointing out that there was an entire cottage industry devoted to it at one point. The $12K is an asking price, there to weed out the nut jobs. I just bought a ‘66 Amazon a couple of weeks ago. Listed at $5k, bought for $1900. That’s a normal thing. See my other post for my…

back in the 80’s and 90s, you used to be able to pick up these old Jags for peanuts with blown motors. Aside from lousy electronics, they also like to warp heads. The V8 was a cheap and easy swap to make a nice cruiser (we used to have LT1s littering the landscape too)

The crying is coming from people who have no clue what they’re doing. They’re terrified because they wouldn’t have the foggiest clue how to fix a car based on looking at it. I would bet that at least half of the most vocal don’t even have drivers licenses.

According to C&D, the stressed areas are 6000 grade aluminum. That’s awfully strong stuff. For reference, it’s what you make connecting rods for top fuel dragsters out of. “NASA grade” is aerospace grade, which is 7000 series. It’s not “better” just different.

Why can I only give one star!?

Soooo a twenty year late apology for this bait and switch?

Some people do enjoy the BRZ stock. Some even plunk down the cash for a new one and laugh all the way to the turbo store as their car depreciates like used toilet paper. Obviously just not nearly enough considering the unimpressive sales.

This argument makes no sense. If I have to take it home, mod it to ‘fix’ it, and void the warranty, why in the hell would I plunk down $20K+ on a new car? I can ‘fix’ a used one.

5. You’re over 5’8” and would like to fit in your car

Variable fan controls are, by definition, electronic. The oldest car I've ever owned was a 59 model, and if you trace back the vac lines, they triggered a variable resistor