Hopefully they didn’t name a kid Seymour.

I personally am a C_p man myself.

David great article, thorough as always. Next time though....

These are the sorts of stories that I know many of us come to Jalopnik for. You don’t find many of these type of stories anywhere else. But they are almost a weekly thing here.

I grew up in Decatur and can confirm that the Zexel wind tunnel was a huge deal when they built it in 1992. School field trips to the facility were commonplace and was a pretty impressive sight to behold. Being only 10 years old, the place seemed absolutely enormous.

Seriously though...something like this is a “once in a lifetime” sort of find. The odds of finding a Saturn SL2 that has been this well preserved (or a running SL2 for that matter) will never happen again. I hope someone preserves this vehicle as a reminder of GM’s Saturn experiment. 

Just a random high five for being so cool.

And Classic Sugar Land used to be Bill Heard Chevrolet, which Jalopnik actually did an article on in 2008: https://jalopnik.com/exclusive-inside-the-fall-of-bill-heard-chevrolet-the-5056225

This is incredibly helpful. Thank you so very much. This is a route forward that hasn’t been suggested by anyone else yet.

One of my clients is a car dealer network with 26 Ford and Mazda stores throughout New England and Northern California. If one of the internet reps for any of our stores pulled this stunt, he or she would be fired in an instant.

I put a 21 gallon repro Mustang tank behind the axle in my F100. It distributes the weight a little better, but it’d be better if it was in front of the axle if we’re talking about cornering and not just hard launches in a straight line. 

Yeah, mine is a Camper Special, hence the extra tank. Not to mention that the thing gets like 9 mpg!

Mine has been a project since day 1 (should run now when I give it some gas) but I wish it was an earlier model just for ease of finding parts. All the windows and mechanisms are unique to a ‘56 and I need a few new ones, basically all the door windows. It was a mechanical disaster when I got it but slowly, and with a…

My ‘56 F100 has the tank relocated behind the axle. IMO it’s too close to the bumper and a risk in a crash but let’s be honest, nothing about this truck would be good in any kind of wreck.

port-a-loo (to use something vaguely British-sounding)

Is that a porta-potty wedged in the back corner of his garage?

The windshield has to be the right amount of wet. If I sense any amount of dry wiper on dry windshield friction, it drives me nuts. 

I guess I’m not eligible, since I use the RainX washer fluid.

(SFW)

Thank you for reading!