Well, I stopped reading most of the above magazines not because I couldn’t afford them but because I realized I was buying them out of habit and not enjoying reading any of them. EVO eventually became all about exotic cars, where the earlier issues often had something about the cheap end of the hobby (as glad as I am…

These are gorgeous photos, and are making me want to hunt down some old issues of Performance Car and EVO just to stare at the photography.

I never bought a whole lot of them - I know people who have or had hundreds of movies on DVDs and VHS. But the ones I have I want to keep, because they’re often things that are either hard to find streaming (old TV shows like the Avengers or the State) or things that were hard to get in the first place (the Canadian…

So what do we think is parked in front of the Biscayne? It’s really impossible to tell, but something’s there, mostly hidden by the power pole. I’m gonna make a guess that it’s something British - it looks like a traditional three-window soft top to the right of the pole, something common on most British ragtops of…

That gif is weird. I totally thought that whatever car part that flies off to the right looks like someone trying to get out of the car, or being knocked out of it.

I’m in the greys here so I hope someone reads this. Anyway.

Around here it’s supposedly statues of a pineapple on the front stoop or in the front yard. I used to work with someone who insisted on this, and she’d point out anyone who was wearing something pineapple related. I always figured that it was just someone who worked for Dole or something. 

FWIW, Miata owners are the worst about whining about front license plates. The. Worst. And I say this as an owner. 

Yeah that’s not a compelling list. I live in Illinois and there are only two states on that list I would consider moving to, and then only to specific cities.

Yeah- my dad ran a couple of EX coupes of this era and while I liked the way they looked just fine (his last one was a really nice dark metallic grey, with some alloys with I think some dark painted trim on them, and the combo looked really classy for an economy runabout), the Si never really stood out, even in blue.…

I am told via another comment that Haynes owns Chilton these days. Apparently it’s just a case of badge engineering - like how some people won’t buy a Chevy but will buy a GMC, some people probably swear by Chilton manuals and wouldn’t buy a Haynes. I’ve not even considered buying a Chilton manual since the early 90's…

I will say that Haynes manuals tend to be a bit better than Chiltons in that respect. Not as in depth as an FSM though. My favorites are still Bentley manuals, at least for old British cars.

I also use zip ties to label my spark plug wires. One zip for cylinder 1, 2 for 2, etc. Cut them off obviously but it makes it easier to remember and you don’t have to label them each time you mess with them (not really a problem on newer cars but I check them quite a bit on my MG). Plus I kind of like the little tidy…

The 117 was what I was trying to remember. But good call on the Dino as well, there’s a definite similarity there too. 

I think that’s how the article defines it, and I kind of agree. Sure, I first saw South Park Santa vs Jesus on a video that had clearly been downloaded and then recorded complete with browser tabs - but IIRC that video was first distributed on physical media and made it’s way to the web.

That said a lot of people are…

No, it’ll probably be a typical six speed, with “seventh” a super low crawler gear marked “1LO” or something. Hopefully the gearing is better spaced than the Wrangler (or other cars I’ve driven - six speeds seem to always have one odd gear that’s not quite as high or low as you think it needs to be, and you kind of…

If I’d designed it I probably would too. As it stands I think it’s a little weird, the buildings just aren’t to my style.

I like the idea of this, and it’s probably something I’d actually do since fake storefront types of displays are some of my favorites in museums. That said I’d end up with something looking much more like the main street of my actual hometown, and not some odd cobblestone and brick village (it doesn’t look very…

It is. I also think the fake Christmas tree isn’t actually supposed to be there, and is a leftover decoration. 

My ‘96 Miata was in the second category - I DD’d it for 16 years, most of which without a garage even in winter, and it wasn’t until the last couple of years that the failures started to get expensive and inconvenient enough that I started thinking about buying something new, and just dealing with payments again. (I…