I’d say the GT is a waste of money for 90% of owners today. No not Jalops but the average Mustang, Camaro or Challenger buyer will never drive the car to potential. Never mind the Hellcat or Demon.

Having lived through the Chevy engines in upmarket cars scandal I can totally believe this.

It’s no speedwagon but I’d take it on the run. Better than a journey anyway. And you can’t be in a rush all the time. Take a slow ride, like they do in Asia. Somebody’s going to buy this in the heat of the moment and probably take it to Kansas or Boston. Oh well back to my pink Cadillac.

I am in awe of your ability to recall 3 1/2 year old posts. And I stand corrected.

How is it that Torch hasn’t educated me on this car’s existence before now?

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She wouldn’t know an intercooler from an igloo cooler. She’s just waiting for the STI owner to show her the awesome aftermarket short throw stick he keeps talking about.

Well it diminished a “just as good as any other mid 70s Japanese economy coupe” car.

Meet the car I learned to drive stick on in 1977. The Dodge Colt Carousel edition. Faded denim vinyl roof with matching dashboard insert. And you can see the seats. It was finally totaled by a gmc 2500 in ‘83 in the last drive by himself my dad ever took. Why my gruff no nonsense WW2 combat vet father bought this I…

I’m old , I realize, but when I was in school (70s-80s) not only were there no soda machines, you weren’t even allowed to have coke etc. on school grounds.

This is an amazing display of ingenuity, diy spirit, and poor taste and judgment. Sorry I missed it.

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25% of cars have a burnt out light. Ok by me. $15 to replace a 3157 is pretty good margin. But yeah headlamps on some GMs (Acadia e.g.) are a nightmare. Chrysler Sebrings too. And try telling a customer it’s $150 to replace a bulb. Especially older people who remember sealed beams.

Maybe with the rear seats folded down?

I never dreamed that I’d miss Nixon.

Historically that attitude didn’t come into vogue until the 70s. Prior to that executives took a more “holistic “ view of the corporation as an entity, as evidenced by the Ford quote above.

And it’s almost if, in your complete lack of comprehension, you have no idea what a large scale nuclear war would do to the country. Try to imagine Katrina. But everywhere and at the same time. We aren’t talking about a random earthquake or tornado. You can’t think in those terms this would be a vastly bigger scale of…

Ok I’ll bite. Triage a million people. Bearing in mind that health care personnel and first responders are as likely to be casualties as anyone. Probably more as hospitals tend to be in the centers of cities that’d be targets.

And how do you treat survivors anyway if most hospitals are gone? In a best case scenario we have what, a couple hundred burn beds in the whole country?

Make all those SUV s Chryslers, keep the challenger and charger, intro a smaller sporty car (barracuda?) a la the toyobaru but with some damn power, and you have your American performance brand in Dodge. Optimally I’d like to see a fast Ute (rampage?) but that’s probably dreaming.