KaCHOW! 

Growing up my dad had a 32 Ford hot rod, looked just like the car in American Graffiti, 289 hi-pro, pretty sure it was manual too. Loud AF, two year old me HATED it but when I got older I was like Dad, why didn’t you keep it??? 

I’ve seen a VW Beetle with an IO-360 hanging off the back of it, not sure how well it actually ran/drove since from what I do know about aircraft engines, they don’t have a very high redline etc... and don’t really do well in automotive applications, or so I’ve heard... But with everything polished/chromed and/or…

I feel like a lot of that cost is parts, not sure what the labor rate for aircraft maintenance is compared to average auto maintenance, but seems to me like parts are 3-4x or more as expensive as their automotive counterparts, like $50 a pop for spark plugs? Forgive my ignorance if I’m wrong though lol 

I feel like this should have come from Southern California, and the Canadian flag was painted over the Mexican flag that used to adorn the tail end of the truck :-P 

The 164 to get is the 164 Q4, had a gear driven all wheel drive system that could vary the power delivery from 100 front 0 rear to 0 front 100 rear, with gear driven LSDs at both ends, and a Getrag 6 speed manual, alas only 5 or so were exported to North America. 

I have a pair that’s made from a set of lug nuts welded together, and being they are heavy equipment nuts, one of them is left hand threaded so they’re stamped “Left” and “Right” :-P I also had 3 or 4 in my toolbox that were the “left” nuts by themselves, so whenever someone in the shop said the’d give their left nut…

Once upon a time in Wyoming I had an 87 Civic Si hatch, wished it was a CRX but it was in pretty decent shape. Got it for free (!) from one of my instructors who was moving out of state. It had up and died on him one day and him being an old-school carbureted engine kind of guy, had no clue what made it crap out.…

You are like, the embodiment of the Gambler spirit. 

Toilets stolen from Navy ship. Sailors don’t have anything to go on.

My wife wants another one, she used to have a 242 and her ex had a 245, and when they split he kept it :-( I want to find her a 245, once I get some of the projects sold LOL... 

The Outback/Forester with the diesel boxer for the US market, along with the diesel Tundra/Sequoia... 

I know Tesla is all about feeding their own ecosystem, but I’d really like to see Musk step up and dump some money into normal DC fast chargers as well, we need more charging stations, and not just ones that’ll work with one brand of car.

I used to work for an RV manufacturer, one of the options they had was “All electric”, and it added SIX 8D AGM deep cycle batteries (in addition to the four that the coaches normally had) and an 8,000W inverter (on these models, the normal genset was a 12.5kW Onan diesel)... But I just looked up how much those stupid…

There’s an LC500 up the street from me, guy also has a Corvette and some kind of Mercedes coupe that’s perpetually under a car cover. He looks like the kind of guy that you’d see sitting in a plastic lawn chair in cutoffs and a wifebeater, drinking a 40 of Old E with his feet on the tailgate of his El Camino... 

I had “bench racing” aspirations to use an MR2 subframe and put a Leaf drive unit in the back of my old Corolla, Tesla drive unit would be even more interesting! 

I’ve seen more than one build that uses the electric power steering pump out of a Toyota MR-2, Subaru XT6 also had electric power steering, although with that one the proprietary Cybrid power steering fluid is NOT cheap (and it will destroy the barely available pump if you put regular power steering fluid in it),…

I’ve really enjoyed reading this, I love restoring old things! My wife and I are getting my grandparents’ trailer (Grandpa passed in 2014 and Grandma passed in April), it’s 20+ years old and it’s a 28 foot with a slide-out, so just a tad bigger than yours (Although when we were looking at just buying a trailer, we…

So exactly how pissed are they at Jalopnik, Torch? 

I took driver’s ed in an automatic 99 Corolla, coming from the Sable wagon my parents had, it was a gutless pig... But, unlike that Sable, the Corolla is probably still ticking along somewhere!