In 1977 (I 🤔), had to recall all the NA Rabbits because the body seal for the antenna on the flat panel right above the left side kick panel mounted main fuze block. It shorted out cool stuff like the horn and the electric fuel pump. The '77 Rabbits had like 17 recalls. My stepfathers had every single one, before the…

My all time favorite I always wanted one car. I did own a Colt Station Wagon with the 2 litre Astron. So I was familiar with them mechanicaly. Never again, never again.

Strangely, I used to be that way most of my life. Twenty years ago my wife and I decided to both get operations to fix our deviated septums. I had always only breathed thru one side and then the other when all the fluid in my sinuses drained back over to the side of my head. It worked. After the surgery, I can…

I like watching Graveyard Cars where they document the minutiae of how shitty Mopar cars were designed and screwed together from the 1950s to the mid 1970s. I know the UAW nee Mob ran everything, but monkeys with wrenches and sticks could have done a better job.

Yea it can, I heard all you have to do is rub a piece of iron and a magnet in front of the charger while facing Fort Worth (used to be Fremont) and chant the words to Electric Dreams. Then 10 Tesla rosarys and 5 Elons our father’s.

No, it does not have a trunk.

I don’t really see what the problem was. He didn’t seem to be causing any damage to what looks like a sign/marker bridge. He got halfway under, Im sure if he had downshifted 3 or 4 gears he would have just slid completely under. The empenage was removed already. I don’t see this as a problem. See it as the beginning…

Sorry about correcting you, Ettore Bugatti is Italian for EGO Boost.

The firm liquidated Buell

TA-DA!!!

Highly unreliable and deeply boring?

The color was a warning to stay away ( run away!). Like those britely colored , poisonous tree frogs.

My coworker used to buy the gas powered ones like candy. He could: replace the wheel bearings, change out the half-shafts, change the front struts and replace the clutch. By the side of the road, always 2 hours from anywhere. Each one of the repairs only taking 15-30 minutes (15 minutes for a clutch, on I-90, in…

Counterpoint: all modern Cadallacs since the Seville except for the Cadiburban. They were all crap or marketed wrong or were at the wrong demo.

Here, here. I want a wagon damnit, not a half a wagon. Especially when I try to pack the back to the roof after a trip to Costco and I can’t just shove everything in and slam the door closed because the hatch is electric now and the sensors won’t let it close on the bag of dog food and giant pack of toilet paper!

I still love your articles Jason. Keep it up. Car Nerds need to stick together. Old VW’s still hold many mysteries. I still remember seeing the 411's and 412's at the state fair, in the cow barn in a stall, with hay (?).

You’re saying its a Type 4 where the back was shaved and trimmed?

Its from Spokane, WA; realistically, everything else in the world is a gazillion miles away. Idaho is kinda of close if that gives you some scale of the loneliness.

They all seem tod be down on the ground almost, how did anyone notice?

David’s most VALIANT endeavor ever.