Fortunately his paper thin muscles and rubbery, calcium deficient bones came through unscathed. Don’t listen to your parents: all that time spent playing video games and living on a Doritos diet will eventually pay off.

Check the time stamps buddy. Car pulls into bay at 12:54. The 2:11 time stamp is when the car is running on the lift to set the fluid level.

The Rover V8 gets a bad rap because Rover was asking it to do something it was never meant to do. Here you have a little, semi obsolete, V8 pushing a 5000 pound car around, and you expect it to hold up to that? The damn transfer case/transmission is bigger and heavier than the engine, for cryin’ out loud.

I was a student there and worked on Vikings 2,4, and 6, and it’s sad to see they’ve gotten to this state. The university doesn’t have the funds to restore them or even store them properly, so this is better than having them rot. We had a lot of fun building them from scratch, modifying them, driving them across the…

Given how obsessive the creators of Mad Men were about correctly potraying the time period and that the show’s focus was the advertising industry, (including automotive ads, Jag, Chevy, etc) it’s entirely possible that in their research the creators found this ad and modeled Joan after the woman pictured here.

Deep down, they found out at some point that it’s going to cost $2,000 to replace rubber-band tires on a 22" rim, and they can barely afford the payments as it is...

This isn’t that uncommon. I’ve seen high-end luxury cars all the time with badly worn and unsafe tires. I’ve even told complete strangers “Hey, you may want to get some new tires on that” and they look at me baffled.

Oh hell no I grew up in a small town I was back there this summer and yes the had the parts I needed to get my 1940 evinrude running.

What, you think AutoZone would have that shit? It was probably sitting in the same spot on that shelf since farmer Jones ordered it in ‘79, right before he got carried away by a twister.

What Andrew says; drag it to Moab, diagnose the problem and order parts on the way, fix said Jeep, live glorious dream (and write about it). You got this.

As a full time resident of Missouri for 31 years. I long for the day I get to leave. If Missouri and Kansas are beautiful, then Colorado is going to feel like heaven. Well until you have to climb a hill in that Jeep.

What’s all this bullshit about Jaguar motors being unreliable? My XJS V12 has over 160K on the original motor. It’s called “maintenance”, assholes. The motor is the most reliable part of the car (on its third GM TurboHydramatic, natch).

Same here. When I was a kid, all the cool teens had GSM Eclipses/Talons and then...Fast and Furious came out. THose things went from “cool, dirt cheap” tuner car to “cool, I HAVE EVERY OUNCE OF MY ALLOWANCE AND MCDONALD’S PAYCHECKS INVESTED IN THIS THING AND I KEEP BLOWING THE MOTOR”, tuner car and they were clapped…

I think back then it was the relay switch itself, which I can only assume they purposely put close to the dashboard so you could hear it without anything artificial.

I don’t think there is a specific “illegal odometer rollback feature” in the software. I suspect that the software allows technicians to, among other things, set a new or used replacement cluster to reflect the mileage of the chassis in which it is being installed.

Uh.. how was the 370 a refresh of the 350? It’s completely redesigned with a completely new engine?

Fieros are the ultimate parts car having car. When was the last time you seen just one parked in a driveway?

What you need to do is buy a really cheap Lexus LS400 as your back up car.

I understand that stroker motors are a thing but wouldn’t a 454 cubic inch engine attached to a gm turbo 400 be a Chevy engine?

Oh gods. When I was a tech for Acura, we would draw straws for who would wrench on these piles of junk. Nothing was good working on these. Dealers had a separate computer diagnostic system for these as the PGM-FI scanner was mostly incompatible with the Isuzu/GM computers in these.