I hit 120 in mine once, never did find enough open flat road to open ‘er up past that

Almost makes one wonder if the standards weren’t set extremely high just to kill the diesel market, oil companies can’t have us driving cars that run on vegetable oil...

Now if they’d only fix the TDI so they can offer this in TDI... AWD + 45mpg yes please....

I have a 99 with 260k on the clock, uses like a quart of oil with every tank of fuel but runs like a champ otherwise.

When I worked at Country Coach circa 2006, when the chassis left the chassis assembly plant it was fully drivable, they had a special chair that would brace against the frame rails and then one of the leads would drive it out of the assembly building (At the time they built the entire chassis of the coach from scratch…

I stripped out the throttle cable retainer on my 73 Datsun pickup I had in high school, used a small pair of vice grips to hold the throttle cable on (And since they wouldn’t clear the hood I did the only sensible thing and took the hood off)

Ah yes, the “excited fishbowl”

Most states have like, that one town that nobody that didn’t grow up there can pronounce that people use to weed out the tourists/transplants... Washington has like, one or two of those in every county... Sequim, Puyallup, Snoqualmie, et. al....

Until the spring that you push down against breaks, and then it will go into reverse when you think it’s in first... Friend had a 5 speed Mk2 Jetta like that in high school, and he’d always jam it in first as he came up to a light and pop the clutch to slow down.. Ended up shredding reverse

I’ve fantasized about something similar to #7, that’d let one inch up behind a semi and attach to the safety bar thing (The thing that keeps one’s car from turning into a convertible should you rear-end the trailer), would have to be rigid so it’d accelerate and decelerate with the trailer, then you just pop it in…

I tried this with my 92 Dodge Ram once. Would have been great if I had just left it in my driveway, but I got the wild idea to drive it into town and park it in a parking lot with Shamu and Flipper bobbing in the back along with a cooler of beer.. First corner I went around resulted in about half the water exiting…

I had a plan involving a couple of those, a Northstar, and the rear of a Honda Civic hatchback... Once configuration would have 4 cylinders piped to a fart muffler and the other to a quiet exhaust, so it’d sound like your normal squirrel-powered Civic... Pull the cable and you’d get all 8 to dual flowmasters or…

I don’t know if I’d daily one personally, due to my 100 mile a day commute (Although one could argue that paying $3000 cash for a car would free up that monthly car payment $ for fuel, etc..), but man would I love something like this as a road trip car, despite the fact it doesn’t exactly sip fuel (Although I’m sure…

That’s how we always got away with it, just told them it was a Mountaineer (And no it didn’t have the badges swapped... The one time the kid hooking up the trailer said something about it I told him I had to swap the hatch and was too lazy to swap the badge.)

I used to want a Lada Niva, just because I’ve always thought they were neat little 4WD beasts, but I’d have to swap it with a more reliable drive train :-P

I used to have one of those, and 85 505 STI turbodiesel, one of the turbo gaskets was bad so it wouldn’t build boost, so flooring it resulted in a THICK cloud of black smoke! Otherwise ran great though.

I’ve had two of them, a white and a silver one, the white one I sold last year (Guy I sold it to was here from Australia, if you happened to see a sticker-covered white SVX with a maroon driver’s door driving around, that was it, guy drove it like 10,000 miles in the course of a few months, then sold it and went back…

My wife used to have a blue 92 Corolla, once she unlocked it in a parking lot, got in it, went to start it and realized the key wouldn’t turn, had a couple seconds of WTF??? until she looked around and realized it wasn’t her car, and her car was parked right next to basically the same exact car.

My speculation is guy in the Nissan was cruising along in the fast lane, passing another car like he said, when bro-truck comes up on his ass, not satisfied with how fast he’s going, guy in the Nissan instead of just getting out of the way and letting the asshole be an asshole somewhere else (I know how it is trying…

I had an 82 Subaru 2WD sedan with a 3 speed slushbox, I put a 4WD shifter handle in it and wired the 4WD button to the kickdown switch on the go pedal, so I didn’t have to floor it to go up hills :-P (well, with about 40 hp making it through the slushbox, I still had to floor it to go up hills... Swapping that car out…