That’s how I feel when I see a picture of myself from 20+ years ago.

Thank you! I’ll give you a star as soon as Kinja will allow it.

Possibly. It looks like the frame has already started to come apart:

When these cars were first becoming really popular - 1985? - every. single. one. roaming the streets was red.

the maker of very expensive, very heavy toys, primarily for Americans

I may or may not have followed that same process with tools, materials, parts, chemicals, books, etc. “Do I have one of these? Not sure - better get one more. One more won’t hurt anything.”

For the average home wrencher, an 8oz container of anti-seize will last until approximately the year 2700.

My family had a Renault Alliance when I was a yute. It was... not a good car.

Neither are 2 and 3 and probably 9, if we’re honest.

Most of my hand tools are Craftsman, from the era when that was still a good name, but I do have a few things from HF. It’s difficult to argue with a $6 set of metric (or SAE) combination wrenches, especially when informal testing revealed them to be pretty decent and the set was going into the under-seat toolkit of…

No, the definitions are not the same.

How about ‘motorhead’ instead?

To be fair*, almost any V-8 with a sufficiently (i.e. extremely) radical cam can sound crackly, especially if each cylinder has its own exhaust outlet (and to a lesser extent with headers that exit at the collector).

I’m not sure it matters. Torch could add a regular 450cc motorcycle engine to this thing, drop the hammer, and still twist the frame into a pretzel. The ‘Busa would just be overkill.

‘Far From the Madding Crowd’, Thomas Hardy. Not car-related, obviously, but it seems appropriate and it’s available for free from Project Gutenberg:

One vote here for rebuilding your 360. It’s original, and when you’re done you will know it is in excellent shape top to bottom. You would also be able to spread the expenses over time: buy some parts, wait a while, buy some more parts, etc.

Those are good ideas! The original engine made around 21 hp IIRC, but being a two-stroke twin it required 5K+ RPM to do that.

DAMMIT!! This guy took my idea*, or at least beat me to it.

I guess “pear” is a shape.

I’m planning to use this one tomorrow: