I’ve been an ACNA member for 17 years now. I’ve owned 4 newer Audi 98 to 2012. However I’ve driven and been in various models from the 80's to present. I didn’t “get it” for years since I work in a Chevy dealer. Just took one drive in the snow with snow tires to convince me 20 years ago. In snow the newer ones just…

Saw one race prepped at Mid-Ohio sometime back at NASA races. It had an IMSA style front spoiler and had a nice turbo setup. Was racing same classes as Vettes, Nissan Z cars and P-cars. I only think the spotty rain limited it from placing. Looked fast when it was on dry sections.

Having been probably the only Oppo that actually purchased a Gremlin I support its removal from the bad car list. It was a new Gremlin at about $3500 new in 1972. Was far better than my high school friends Vegas and Pintos. I put about 50k on it and only replaced front brakes, tires and a diode-trio in the alternator.…

How different was the chassis on the FJ55? My sister had one back then and I worked on it a bit. Never did any work on any FJ40 or FJ45. My family was more into various Jeeps and friends had 60-70s Land Rovers.

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So when I was a pit crew extra at Mid-Ohio for Koni Challenge and Continental Tire series races and many of the crew guys wore those or Sparcos , you’re saying we were posers? I don’t think so.

Its basically a Fiat and I fully support you on this. My first car was a Fiat Spider in the 70's. Get the issues fixed and keep it. I think its pretty hip.

One of my coworkers has a drone that can hit 45 or so peak speed. He wants to see how well he can follow my A3 on some back road curves. Haven’t figured out when we will experiment with it but I’d like to do it on a snowy day when I can get it a little sideways. Might not be this year because we are about 18" off on…

The footage has gotten so much better. I know there are some cameras and drones that can be set to track a single object so I’m just curious as to when this and better collision avoidance systems could be applied to drones. Each car could have its own drone tracking it at a set distance and height without someone…

I have a laces type key/money pouch that I’ve had since 1983. They’ve been around for years and the key on the laces idea has been around forever. Its on old Youtubes and runners blogs. The other old tips were to put it on one of the ties for drawstring waist runners shorts or on an elastic cord attached to the wrist.

True. College roommate had a Pinto. In two years I remember brake jobs, 1 small carb fire, two carb rebuilds, 1 transmission rebuild(my first) , tire, brakes, radio and electrical demons. I was so happy when he moved to Florida and I didn’t have to help him repair it anymore. Was amazed it even made the trip from…

I had friends that bought Vegas. Was once following one when the axle clip came loose inside the diff. The rear shaft walked it sway out of the housing until the tire rubbed the quarter panel. Don’t know how the shaft didn’t break or the tire blow up. With quality like that why would anyone even look at one these…

My wife wanted one in ‘96 and we ended up keeping it until 2008. Logged over 125k for us and went on under a friend owning it for 3 more years before the 3rd owner got it. At 105k we replaced a transmission solenoid, two sets of clutches and fluids because it would set a code from internal slippage when driving in the…

Back in the day I gave three of my nephews a 40 piece Harbor Freight ratchet set ( when they were $3) , divided a huge Stanley screwdriver set among them, pliers, crescent wrenches, got each a plug gap tool and along with a mess of my old extra tools put the pieces in some Plano tackle boxes. Two of them learned to…

We had dual parking lots at my HS. I was at school on an island in the Carolinas. The beach kids mostly parked in one and island kids on the other. Cops sometimes sat just down the street from either exit to nail people as we hot footed it leaving school. It was early 70's and many muscle cars. The next day you would…

Urethane jack stand pads, 1/4" air ratchet , coffee table book on American cars up to present and a magnetic led rechargable work light with usb outlets.

I bought a $450 Asus system non-gaming PC. Added 8gb ram to get it to 16gb for only $40. Now I just need to get a better graphics setup and considering a larger power supply. Already playing Forza at minimum graphics settings with no glitches. Should be able to make the next upgrades easily for $250-300.

If they don’t rust away those old Cavaliers can go forever. I had a 1992 Cavalier RS wagon with the 3.1 V6 for 120k+ miles. I sold it to a friend who ran a parts store. It went to 177k and only stopped then because it hit the rear of an 18 wheeler in a snow storm. The engine got pulled and installed in a Z-24. That…

It okay to get on them. I don’t thinks it rude, its truthful. I live in NE Ohio where we get lots of snow each year and it seems like in the first snows that nobody has even seen the white shit before. That’s why we had an interstate shut down last night. I wish the state would make snow tires mandatory in and around…

I have control. Still have a home phone but use my cell as my alarm. I usually set it on the bedstand when I get home and don’t look at it until it wakes me in the morning. My friends know not to text me in the evening.