Neutral: My greatest fear isn’t the enthusiast vanishing, but rather places like California managing to legislate us out of existence.

The last honk concert I went to was Florida Georgia Line.

As a Texan, I’m not entirely familiar with the extensiveness of safety inspections in other states, but here in Texas none of those “silent killers” are even checked.

And it’s another law to save people from themselves. The chances of someone’s car just flat out coming apart on the road are slim. The chances that it’d cause someone else on the road to get hurt are even less.

Are we the same person?

I live in Minnesota, land of road salt. We don’t have inspections. Everything rusts out, brake lines, frames, and suspension parts. Never seen anyone crash because it. It’s not going to stop people from driving shit cars.

Speaking of Kansas, We dont have inspection stickers and it is glorious. We dont have as many rust buckets as you may think also. Not even in the middle of nowhere bum fuck either. lol

yeah I ponder this and can only come up with someone bought it thinking of limo duty and they just never finished the project, from what I can tell Urban Gorrilla kit comes like this from the factory for $13-20k

I had a burgundy ‘82 GT... loved that car

With two small kids now, the ability to spend an entire weekend banging out projects in the garage is just not a thing. If I’m lucky I’ll get a few hours on the weekend. This requires some planning. I’ll spend several hours over the work week, usually lunch hours, figuring out what I want to do and how to do it. So…

Well... I suppose the biggest change is that I can actually afford my wrenching hobby now.

An ingenious workaround to those strict Aussie burnout laws.

Swap everything!

Can everyone just stop putting so much weight behind the 0-60 metric? I’m not saying it’s totally meaningless, but it only represent a small fraction of a car’s performance.

Anything that involves the word ‘Mugen’

The 3.6 has a timing chain, not a timing belt. That’s a plus.

I’m going to go with the 1992 Dodge Ramcharger 5.9L (360).

It isn’t $25k.

I once tried to parse the true differences between the 3 engine choices for the Darts. Tigershark, Multiair...I then thought to myself, what am I wasting my life doing this for