This whole thing ruins it for me...the rest of the car is quite nice

They're already partially there.

Just feel compelled to say this thread made me think that of the Gawker family, Jalopnik has the best writing, best commenters and then best feedback from writers by a (40 second?) mile. Safe place to talk informed shit and a safe place for writers to respond. Love this site.

As a huge BaT reader and commenter, I'm seeing a lot of content on Jalopnik that was originally found by them being spliced over... With no credit to BaT.

At least it's right-side-up. My very first brand new car, a 1975 Chevy Laguna Type S-3, had a small "Laguna" emblem on the passenger side of the dashboard, and mine was installed upside down at the factory. I just left it that way for the hell of it.

Geneva, 1967.

He pulled out let traffic by, waited for a bit to yield a gap and gave it. It was a 4 lane street and very few cars were even around. Sure he caught up to the traffic real quick but by that time he was off throttle and coasting (maybe even braking). He wasn't doing this alongside traffic or on a tight street. You…

Might be dreaming small for a dream car. But I'd love to see an AZ-1 in person. Talk to the owner. Maybe look inside. Not sure why but I really really want one.

The big one for me is a Tatra 603

I would sell my left kidney to see one up close.

No longer with us (unfortunately), but...

180 mph from a 2-liter four, in something that looks like the size of a MG Midget. Unbelievable. Glad that folks like Petrolicious and Chris Harris are doing what they do, giving people like me things to drool over.

He had been planing a Chev 350 installation. He's got the whole drive train from a pickup truck. The plan was to drop the Tib's front sub frame & build a ladder frame off that to hold the engine, tranny & axle. Then gut the Tib's unit body - I mean really gut it, hack & slice 'till the Tib' fit on the ladder frame,…

Poor MR2.

I owned one of these for a couple of years, GT V6, 6 speed. The engine was much better if you just let it breath with basic intake and exhaust upgrades. Once I did that it was on par with a Civic Si. Mine was red on black leather, and really well equipped for the time and considering the price. I used to have kids…

And I, at Detroit.

My god do I want a Tibby.

Mostly just so I can beat on it, then after I kill the engine, put in a decent V6 or V8 (of Mopar origin, look at my username for why), and convert it to RWD to make it an old counterpart to the new Genesis coupe.

But wow, did those post-bubble-eye Tibbys look good.

I remember hearing a story about how this car got into the movie.

Good for him, I like that's he's humble and smart enough to rock an ordinary car and keep it running for years to come rather than blow it on a supercar that he could total any day. Although he could upgrade to a Cosmo, lol.