And, you get a real rear suspension.

Having owned a swing axle 1960 Corvair, an irs 1965 Corvair and a 1971 irs Beatle, I concur.

SAAB Sonett and Cord.

What was I thinking?

The Innocenti looks like the progenitor of the TR-6.

Why? Just do a side to side rotate.

And vent windows.

He lives in Canada.

My question: when the inside shoulders of those tires are worn down to the cords, can they rotate them to the other side and get another twenty miles out of them?

Yep.

Between 1978 and 2013 I had the privilege to drive quite a few of those ‘awkward brown trucks’ with this particular engine.

No gas gauge, either.

Karma is a bitch.

Actually, it was just off the transporter, they had basically nothing in it then, and I got a totally bitching deal.

I shamed a sales manager into giving me a dealer branded hat (camo, damn) after I bought a new Tacoma.

Pilots? Why?

I had a sticker made up of the logo in your avatar for my Tacoma.

I’m guessing that the fiber insert was some kind of early harmonic balancer.

I would imagine someone could drag an engine out to him out of Grandpa’s barn.

Dirty little secret: many of those shiny, fairly low mileage used cars on your neighborhood dealer’s lot came from rental fleets and were bought at auction.