This sure sounds like someone had a family member that died in an accident that involved a vehicle that was referred to a “dune buggy” whether it was actually a dune buggy or not, and they have made it their life’s work to get “justice” for that person and make sure that they are all made illegal so nobody else has to…
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It could be the V6. I am ashamed to admit that my daily driver is a 2014 Avalon, but when you get the RPMs up, the V6 actually does have a sound that some people will enjoy. I drove a couple hundred miles in a 2014 Camry with the 4 cylinder, and it was as you describe sound wise with about the same amount of power as…
I have a good one that makes 3 hours seem like nothing. After college I had a 95 GMC 3/4 ton van. Thanksgiving week I was headed to my parent’s house about 250 miles away and took the van because I was picking up a motorcycle while I was in town. The van had been having some stumbling issues when cold so I figured my…
I have a few, and I am not sure which one is best. The first one was in my 82 Supra while I was in high school. I was headed home from hockey practice and the fuel light came on. So I stopped at the gas station right by the highway. I got out to pump and the lock on the filler door was frozen. I figured I could make…
If you can stretch the budget just a bit, 144" standard roof Sprinter, no question. Everybody thinks they are huge, but they are actually no bigger than a Suburban, but much better for people and stuff hauling, and are built to last 500K miles.
One other factor you haven’t taken into account, and really can’t yet with this car is resale value. We have an 07 Grand Cherokee with the 3.0 Mercedes diesel. It was roughly a $4k option when new, but when we bought it used the diesels were going for roughly $8k more than an equivalent hemi. In general, what I have…
Mine was a 76 as well, and I always put the top cover on it. I agree, it isn’t a difficult task once you know how to fold everything up properly, but it does take a fair amount of time if you are doing it solo. Up is certainly quicker than down though.
When I was in college my friend made the mistake of showing some of us how to remove the doors from his Wrangler. Curiously, a few months later he returned to his Jeep to find it sans doors. It was about 40 degrees out and he was about 15 miles from home and had to take a state highway with a 60 mph speed limit to get…
A couple years after college I bought an MGB very similar to the one in the picture above. Putting the top up and down on the MGB is a somewhat involved task, so my usual procedure was to put it down in the spring and not put it back up until fall, and only drive it on nice days since even with the top up, it didn’t…
We had a Renault Alliance for a while when I was a kid. My dad got it cheap because it wouldn’t go into reverse. He got it home and figured out that a spring was missing on the shift linkage, put a new one on, and it was as meh as new. My dad had a taste for odd cars. He bought a brand new Gremlin once, was really…
L-Type. Mainly because that was my first car, and 10 cars later, the only one I miss. If the back half hadn’t completely disappeared from rust I would still have it 20 years later.
“THE ENERGY DRINK WARS RAGE ON! MY DIABETES BUBBLES ARE BETTER THAN YOUR DIABETES BUBBLES! BUILD A WALL! KEEP NOS OUT!”
In theory a cheap welder could give decent welds if you have everything set up perfectly. He however, doesn’t, and I would almost guarantee the cast tie rod ends, nuts, and filler are all different materials. Like I said, for anything non load bearing or safety related, go for it. If it sticks together good job. But…
Yeah, they are a bunch of nuts, but every thing they do is proper. If they wanted, those guys could build a miata that looked just like this one, but it would actually be functional and safe, although they probably wouldn’t have much miata left.
I don’t even think the oil cooler is hooked up. I am pretty sure it is there just to look cool.
Don’t forget, he did that with a Harbor Freight flux core welder and not with a proper mig or tig setup and the correct filler. Even a stick welder with the proper filler would have been better than what he did.
Have you watched any of his videos? He is only knowledgeable enough to be dangerous. Everything he does is a hack job with not even a hint of thought for safety. Take a look at the video where he extends his tie rods by cutting them and welding a stack of nuts on with a harbor freight flux core welder, on the ground,…
When I was a kid my dad bought a used Renault Alliance super cheap because it wouldn’t go into reverse, and well, it was a Renault Alliance after all. After a few minutes of looking at it he noticed a spring was missing on the shift linkage, replaced it with one he found in the garage, and now the car had reverse.…
Wouldn’t Australia just be our “ballsier brother?” I mean, technically we are both offspring from England right?
You have to be careful racing a competitor’s vehicle. You found out that your car could easily be as good as a “faster” team’s car with a little work, and it sounds like it provided lots of encouragement. The opposite can be true if you find out that your vehicle is actually better.