I actually just almost bought one of those a month ago for the Detroit Gambler 500. It was crashed but it was pretty cheap. I think those and the Mirage might be the only new cars sold with manual windows today.

It did. I made that car as nice as a spray can would allow

As long as the factory didn’t offer it with power windows only then it fits in my mind. Also any car that you might wear driving gloves with or tweed for that matter

I painted my stock brake calipers red in an attempt to look like I could afford real performance parts.

They would absolutely build to 2 different standards. Just look at all the California only electric ‘compliance cars’ for proof of that mentality. Fiat supposedly loses like $10k on every 500e basically so they can sell trucks there.

Profit margins. Meeting CARB will likely require a few extra components that would be removed for non-CARB states. You could just put them on all cars but that could mean smaller profit margins per car and therefore smaller returns for shareholders and you can’t anger the insatiable bitch that is wallstreet.

Detroit to Philadelphia for Christmas with the wife, luggage, gifts, and the back seat filled with dogs.

I thought crank windows were dead in the US market at least

Not a year but a relationship to other tech. I propose wood steering wheels only go with cars that came with crank windows

No but I grew up in the area that movie takes place, my town was featured in one scene I think, and I’m such a fan of the Blues Brothers I named my hound dog Elwood

From my understanding it comes out of Australia but I could be wrong. Might have been a derisive term before but the internet has made it much more common and more of a badge of honor.

$0 if you just leave it broken. Otherwise it’s going to vary widely depending on what other component it’s integrated into.

“Help me Jesus! Help me Tom Cruise!”

He had to say that OR “Don’t tell your mother”. Those are the two Dad options.

Na, that was basically my Step-Dad. Immediately after I got my drivers license he gave me the keys to the car, 20 bucks for gas, and said “Don’t fuck up.” then left me in the DMV parking lot

Yeah, the old man at least yelled “Hang on!” at my sister and I

If you can corner the right engineer: Would the blocks of the NA engine and the turbo engine have the same transaxle bolt pattern?

This sounds likely so good luck. My Dad didn’t try real hard to discourage me from being a hoon but we lived in farm country so lots of space to be dumb with minimal consequences. He also helped me straight pipe my Neon. I thought Iwas getting away with something but what I later realized is Dad was helping me alert…

He is a huge dork normally but put him in a car and he suddenly puts on the badass like a Jalop Clark Kent.

As I’ve gotten older I’ve determined one ingredient in true coolness is giving no shits. Sounds like your Dad had very few to give.