@FestivaDriver: Avocado can go away. Lots of 70s car colors I like, mostly the citrus ones, but the color of my grandmother's perfectly-matched kitchen, with fridge, dishwasher, floors, counters, and wallpaper all in avocado? No thanks.

@Novaload, I so want to be her when I grow up. And the Lotus, it is just calling to me...

@charles_barrett: I saw my first Ferrari in a parking lot at DEC, I think I might need to join you over there...

@TexanIdiot25: The radiator in ours is gigantic, and it's been coping for hauling stuff in town with the flex-fan, somehow. It probably would run, considering.

@Mad_Science: They do make non-air powered impact wrenches, I use one at my dad's actually. (I did a double-take, actually, because he has more air tools than anyone I know and built his own compressor.)

@TexanIdiot25: I need to do the same to a '62 with a 1980 small-block in it, add shrouding or go electric... How much trouble is it giving you?

@Murilee Martin: The no garages thing seems to be essential.

@TheTooth: They are also good for pulling chips out of things - the EEPROM on an old sparc, for example.

Cool little car, that swift.

I so need to snag a picture of the brown wagon version of one of these floating around the city for you guys. It's high enough that it looks like it has a lift kit.

@Al Navarro: I wasn't referring to you there, as far as I know. Hell, I'm happy you teach your girls about cars.

Because people around here aren't complete losers if I happen to admit to being a girl. Related to cars or tech (my native field as a programmer) that is a rare place indeed.

Looking at this makes me cringe and remember the hopelessly tangled web of wires under the dash of the current project. It has two working gauges: oil pressure and water temp. And we broke the turn signals in the process of figuring them out... (60s pickup. Gets driven to haul things sometimes.)

The best one I know is actually my mom's. Her and her friends put eleven crabs in someone's car. (Down the bayou, crabs are sold by the dozen.) Poor guy spent ages paranoid that there was a twelfth rotting crab in his car.

There's a GT6 on my craigslist right now, actually. "Great Project Car! Filled to the roof with spare parts!"

Went to take a look at a Karmann Ghia in this color orange just over the weekend. Poor thing had taken on water during its life, though, and was going to need lots of waterproofing and floor replacement.

This is pretty bad. This reminds me of this white 80s corvette limo that lives at this detailing shop near my parents house. It screams of cocaine and shoulder pads gone terribly wrong. This car will look like that in twenty years, poor thing.

@econobiker: oh god, the refrigerators. I was trying to block those memories out.

@nichomiz: I have one of those, which is why I'm not quite sure. The bump under the trigger guard looks wrong.

Excellent! Ran into this car a couple times down in the quarter, it's audible several blocks away. Gonna try and make the premiere.