That is forking awesome. I wonder how much fabrication was involved in getting the subframes to bolt up... 

Kinda reminds me of the story in the Bible of all the rich men coming into the temple and pouring their bags of money into the offering, and this old widow comes up and puts two mites, which were among the smallest denominations of coins in Biblical times, and Jesus said how she’d given more than the rich men because…

I don’t know if the man bought the car new or not, but having a bright yellow removable tag on the emergency release that indicates “manual door release” would cover the “I don’t read the owner’s manual”crowd. I also think such things should be on the first page of the manual. When I worked for Toyota they started…

Someone probably thinks there’s like $10k in coke to be vacuumed out of the upholstery :-P 

Also, a lot of the cop ones don’t have daytime running lights where the civvy versions do, so if you see one with its lights off, chances are it’s NOT Karen taking the kids to soccer practice. 

scrap -> scrapped
scrape -> scraped 

If memory serves me they had a safety concept car in 1974 that had ABS and airbags :-P 

Find a decent running 360 and drop it in. Take your original to a machine shop and have it gone over and rebuild it, and when it’s done put it back in. Use the spare one for another project. :-P

Late 90s, my grandfather’s cousin passed away and my parents were going to buy her 1994 Geo Prizm from her estate for me for my first car, and my grandparents said they’d help out. Then my mom saw one in traffic and decided it was “too small” and I needed something bigger. I was bummed but oh well.

I don’t know what your grandparents were worried about, those old Benzes are tanks, anything you might have hit would have just bounced off. 

That car was at the time worth a lot more, wasn’t my current crapcans. And knowing me unless it was structural damage, I’d just buy it back and either keep driving it or part it out (Or find a good shell to drop the engine in).

I’m with you on the physical controls. At the very least, volume, radio station, fan speed, temperature, and air mode (floor, vents, etc..) should have a physical button of some sort, I like being able to adjust things by feel versus having to wade through a menu on a touch screen.

No, it’s full coverage. Funny thing is the Outback is worth like $2-3k, the Corolla is worth like $1k-1500 :-P (And having full coverage costs me like, another $50 or so a month for all three vehicles) 

I have full coverage on all three of our vehicles (One is storage only and I reinstate it when I need to drive it, but it’s covered if like, someone steals it or a tree falls on it or something). Few years ago I dropped full coverage on everything, I got sideswiped on the freeway and the asshat had Farmers Insurance…

I almost got one of these in college for $100, a 1979 that needed a carburetor and a fuel pump. I still regret it. 

Although people point to racism and police brutality, I have always believed that the biggest white privilege is white church. They don’t even have to dress up for church! If a white person wears a polo to worship service it means it’s a special service, like pastors anniversary or something important where the choir…

lol if someone wanted to steal my 99 Corolla with 300,000 miles on it I’d laugh all the way to the bank. Maybe I should get a Vibe GT... They’re easier to find with three pedals than the Matrix XRS :-P 

I have a 1999 Toyota Corolla, my wife has a 1999 Subaru Outback... Insurance on hers is like $350 for six months, for the Corolla it’s almost $700. Insurance company can’t tell me why other than people hang onto Toyotas longer, they cost more to fix, and tend to have young, inexperienced drivers... You’d think an EV…

I’d love to get my hands on a GTD - it’s a GTI but with an intercooled turbo diesel :-P I THINK the mk1 GTD made it to the US but they’re extremely rare, although I have seen a GTI with a TDI swap :-P And yes, it rolled coal :-P 

David Tracy’s adventure next year will be driving an $800 Jeep down there to retrieve it