I wonder if that’s a Griffith or a Grantura? The alloys make me think the former.

Like a lot of performance and luxury cars, they get to their third or fourth owner, who buys it cheap, and doesn’t maintain it, and they go to hell. I’m even seeing C5 Corvettes like this, despite the 5's reputation as the car for old guys who only drive them on Sundays to the show and shine and/or ice cream shop.

It’s rare enough (including British market cars) that swapping engines would ruin what value it has. If you really want a fast(er) version of this find a 350i, with the Rover V-8.

I was about to say the same thing. The airline food story would also fit in over at Jalopnik (which is more broadly transportation related with a focus on cars).

I had a guy tell me that even though a Honda was built in the U.S., the money from the purchase “goes to the motherland”. I pointed out that, as opposed to his Canadian built Chevy (or something, I forget what it was now), the Honda was putting Americans to work, who got paid money here in America, and spent it here…

Oh I agree, I think it’s a stupid reason. But then again most restaurants around here don’t have anything smaller than a four top. The only exception I can think of is Chili’s, which has these little two seat booths in the one near here - every other place I can think of (chain or otherwise) doesn’t have anything that…

It was relatively unscientific, as they didn’t do a teardown to see if there was any internal damage (they were using a well worn junkyard engine, so I imagine it would’ve already been out of tolerance on a lot of things), and they weren’t taking power readings on a dyno. The engine stopped running with the bleach,…

Yeah, I discovered that at a lot of places if I want to take a picture of my food I have to really edit it to make it look good, because the lighting’s so bad. (I won’t use the flash when eating in a restaurant, unless I’m taking a photo of a person I’m dining with, because I try to take food photos on the sly.

I can smell the mildew and patchouli from here.

Apropos of nothing, but has anyone else noticed that the patch on Debbie’s uniform shirt says “Blagojevich Parking”? To a Chicagoan that’s pretty damn funny.

A local Chipotle has a bar along the street windows - it’s where I’d sit when I still ate there. It’s about perfect when I’m by myself.

I don’t so much mind eating at the bar if it’s not busy. I was in Nashville for a few days back in October, and ate out solo every time. One restaurant (that I otherwise liked) tried to get me to sit at the bar (which was kind of busy with guys hooting at football on the TeeVee), so I took a table in the less busy…

I dunno, if the driveline was still solid, and it hadn’t been crashed, I might’ve taken it for a grand, just to have something to haul my bicycle around in without using a rack. Service it, cheap head unit, cheap paint job, and you’re good to go.

They did this one on Mythbusters. On looking it up, apparently the engine died, but was still able to run, but the gas tank was rusted the next day. They also did sugar, mothballs, drain cleaner, and then put bleach in the oil, which ruined the engine pretty quickly. (They did this with an old V-8 on a stand).

IM with you except I’d make the Cherokee the off roader and keep the pickup relatively stock for non snow use.

If I remember correctly (I should go dig my books out and look it up), George did quite a bit of work during their early days, particularly when the first shop opened in the late 40's (bear in mind that George Barris learned the trade from Harry Westergard, up in Sacramento, so he certainly had the experience and…

Locals only eat deep dish when out of state relatives visit.

I always wished for a Craig Ferguson appearance on Doctor Who.

If it was 4WD it might have a chance - it’d make a snazzy winter beater - but RWD only? Now it literally has no use whatsoever.