It looks like a Stormtrooper helmet pulling a trailer. Dissapointment.

Put a cool AWD system into the Challenger and then hamstring it with a failure-probe slushbox? That’s automatic cuckholding. Shame.

Easy way to do this? Load a large horse water trough into the bed, and fill it with water from a hot spring. I’ve seen it done before at Summer Lake campground in the Oregon outback.

I like how the truck skips like a stone on initial contact with the water. I can visualize bored defense contractors trying to see how many times they can get the truck to skip.

Haha! True! Never underesimate the theft deterrent power of a baffling gear change! I drive a ‘76 Volvo 245, and part of it’s theft prevention power (Apart from the car being incredibly distinctive and vastly “uncool”) is the shifter. The push button overdrive and reverse lockout never fail to confound even the most…

Ahh the Oldsmobile Silhouette. One of my Russian Ex-pat neighbors still has a green one of these as the family car. Him and his wife drive their kids all over the state in it too. It fills the garage with a blue cloud every time he starts it, and I witnessed his mother whack her head on the sharp backward slant of the…

Oh! Another reader of Dresden Kodac! Hello!

*Whips his head around, looking for Adam West*

<3! So glad to see another historic marque make a reappearance! Now can get a resto-mod version of Raymond Lowey's famous Studebaker Hawk? The iterations without the tacked-on fins already look surprisingly modern.

Anyone else remember this from a few years back?

Yeah. The only way you can beat a Citroen for sheer strangeness is with another Citroen. So how about the suspension system they used on the 2CV? Rods, and canned springs, not a shock absorber in sight. It provided a soft-but-controlled ride that was still adjustable. Allegedly one could take a roundabout at full…

Thumbs up for the “it block runway vision” remark. I laughed far too hard at that.

Does this shit ever sell cars? That seems like something you do when you’re *trying* to get a customer to leave because they won’t stop making an ass of themselves. Is this sexist bullshit that pick-up artist “confidence” again? And it’s crap like this why there seem to be so few women who are interested in cars and…

Yikes! And my friends wonder why I ignore dealerships. I’ve got a pretty good sense of people, but car salesmen always make my intuition go haywire. One of my cousins works at a Ford dealership, and has told me enough stories of what goes on there that I think I’m good just buying used cars from private parties…

Gaawwwd!!! That series III. I need that truck in my life. Reliability, simplicity, and that conservative sort of cool which is so quintessentialy British.

OMG!!! ZED600!!! Running! So much needs! All the wants! TAKE MY MONEEEEYYY!!!

Soundman98, I don’t think the belts are redundant. I beleive those drive whatever that thing has that passes for a gearbox. That power unit looks like a Chinese knock-off of a 50’s vintage Gravely 2 wheel tractor.

It’s crude, it’s weird, probably sounds like a fast lawn tractor, and likely has brake shoes made out of wood. Yeah, I’d rock it. But then I’m a weirdo. Speaking of, there might be a couple for sale in Portland, OR.

Addendum: Hacksaws are also incredibly useful cutting slots into broken bolts. Then you can *hopefully* use an impact driver with a flathead bit to break them loose. In one instance I used a hacksaw to cut a series of slots into a ruined slip-type brake slack adjuster. Thereby repairing it well enough to get me home.…

Add to list: Hacksaw and blowtorch. Two of my favorite tools. If you can spare the scratch, get a battery-powered Sawzall and metal-cutting blades. Rarely does a project or repair pass on my basketcase Volvo without me having to break out of these because I broke something, or a bolt is jammed. Just don’t be stupid…