I’m genuinely curious to see if they can make an even halfway reasonable, SyFy quality film in this amount of time, or if it will be shot on a handycam and be like fifteen minutes long and use a lot of stock footage of rockets and whatnot. 

So, I didn’t run out but I got close in this story. Last spring, a friend and I had driven out to Dubuque to go to TorqueFest (we live in the western Chicago burbs), and for the drive home we decided to take the river route down to Fulton, then 3o back towards home. Naturally we missed a turn and ended up driving west…

I think I’ve only run out once, when I was in high school. The fuel gauge in my MG Midget didn’t work at all, so I’d occasionally open the trunk, unhook the filler tube, and peek inside. Of course I didn’t, the car wouldn’t start at work, and I spent like half an hour fiddling with the spark plug wires and whatnot…

Gonna leave this here! 

I’d like to see a resurgence of blue dots, myself. 

Sure, and you could still get an age appropriate engine and transmission from a junkyard too - which is what I would’ve done. But like I said above sometimes you get an idea and want to see if it can be done. 

A couple of reasons - for starters the Mustang may very well have had a bad engine, or no engine at all. Now, were it me I’d have gotten a V-8 but people will do all manner of engine and drivetrain swaps just to see if it can be done, and just to show off their handiwork at car shows (see the car show photo above).…

You aren’t wrong about early emissions equipment making cars of that era worse. But, cars from the middle sixties weren’t really any better built than new ones were in the 70's. Paint and rust prevention was exactly the same, and assembly wasn’t any different. So unless the car you were looking at was very well…

My sister and her family are transplants to Minnesota. We grew up around Chicago so for the most part we fit in just fine (though I’ve yet to get any natives to use “over by there”). Her husband, however, grew up and lived for a very long time on the east coast, and while he’s really embraced the place I’m pretty sure…

Sure, but a lot of people, when presented with a list of things that will need attention but aren’t critical, will have some or all of them done for no other reason than peace of mind. I mean, my car is due for several mileage related service items (this is according to the manual, not something a shop told me), and…

Another commenter has already said this particular place is busy all the time, with lots of taxi and commercial work after hours. FWIW, my cousin used to be a diesel mechanic and the shop he worked at was open 24 hours, and they had a constant flow of work all the time. When your vehicle is your livelihood you want it…

Well, you would need to fix yourself a double Daytona. Drink all the not-Scotch, refill with Scotch, drink, etc.

I believe that’s a Jaguar SUV in the first actual still photo (I can’t remember what their SUVs are called)

You make a Daytona cocktail. You take a can of whatever soda you like, after which you drink half, refill with the liquor of your choice*, drink half, refill, drink half, refill, drink half, refill.....

You ever see someone at a party stumbling around with a Coca-Cola can and it’s all dented and beat up, you can bet…

It’s a smimace

It’s the Commodore and Janelle. They’re synth pop C&T cover band. 

Well it did sit for like twenty years or more, so they’re definitely old and hard as rocks. There are photos and videos of this car driving around that are fairly recent, I have no idea if they swapped to fresher rubber or just drove really slowly. 

Doubtful - the owner used the car as a regular driver for many years, so I imagine they’d replaced the tires a few times. 

Fun Fact! Both the AC428 and the Maserati Mistral were styled by Pietro Frua, and they are very similarly styled. Rumour has it that the windscreen, door glass, and doors themselves are identical. 

Right? Nobody’s gonna want to eat a slice someone’s already handled. It’s just like the same monsters who cut a donut in half (or worse, take a quarter) and then put the remains back in the box on the breakroom table and wonder why it’s still there at the end of the day. You might as well just take a bite out of it…