CP for not having the decency to swap out the front fascia for the SHO bits. That leads me to believe the donor car was also involved in a forward collision, which means the owner didn’t swap in the cooling system for the SHO engine and it’ll probably overheat. I also remember when Car and Driver performed the same…

Yeah, and I’m not seeing how his cousin is any more grounded than he is just because she was “hesitant” to accept a job that she didn’t consider herself to be qualified for and was probably offered to her just because she was born into the Ford family. I guess Ivanka is more grounded than Donny Jr. because she…

I don’t know many 55 year olds who are buying Les Pauls. Most of them are paying for their kids to go to college or the McMansion their second wife wanted. People in that age bracket seem to be hitting Audi and BMW if they can afford it.

1. Ford Mustang packages: Bullitt or Shelby.

The E-cars were nutty from the start. They built the new plants in Lansing and Poletown and wanted some high-tech machines to come out of these new high-tech plants. They wound up taking pieces of the A, G, and W cars and mushing them together to produce the E-cars and it was not a good thing. They sold in…

Bear in mind, what else were they going to replace them with? A few brave souls bought Turbo Sprints, which is still the MOST hilarious thing I’ve ever seen (imagine a Yugo with 3/4ths of a Hayabusa engine and Japanese build quality), but yeah, it was mostly Berettas. They were cheap, got good gas mileage, and the…

I can tell you exactly why this Fiero wound up in Mesa.

NP for the good bones. I’d strip out the drivetrain and transplant the drivetrain from a totaled GMT800 Tahoe, maybe the whole wiring harness too. They’ve already done the springs and the rest of the body is plenty serviceable.

Honestly, I saw a ‘93 Typhoon at a car wash yesterday. Still looked fairly fresh and knowing that it would bury a ‘93 LT1 at the strip makes me think that GM could make a Corvette-branded SUV work in 2023. They really tried with the TBSS in the ‘00s but the execution was poor compared to the performance of the…

Don’t let The Man get you down, Warren.

No. That Caprice wagon can also haul 4x8 sheets of plywood between the wheel wells with the two rows of rear seats folded FLAT and the tailgate closed. It could also tow a boat or a camper at highway speed cross-country. This little ‘Yota can’t do any of that.

Funny you should mention the Corvette. There was a Corvette sitting on the showroom floor when my parents were going over the final numbers on the wagon. My Mom noticed that the sticker price was roughly the same on both cars, and jokingly asked the F&I manager what the payments on the Vette would be compared to the…

Reluctant CP. Here’s why:

Yeah, Ford wasn’t the only one who got duped by PPG on the ELPO process. GM and Chrysler got duped as well, and vehicles painted with BASF products on top of raw ELPO had even worse adhesion issues. ELPO is a great product because it’s a solid rust inhibitor, but the early water borne paints just wouldn’t adhere to…

If the difference is only $500, I’d rebuild the original engine and sleep better knowing what parts were actually used and who did the work. Even better if you know the shop has experience with AMC rebuilds and the tools/jigs to do the machine work correctly. If it’s a difference of >$1,500, I’d take the chance on the…

Hey man. You can literally see GM Fairfax Assembly from downtown Kansas City. You have to go clear up to Claycomo for the Ford plant!

The Shuttle did everything it was designed to do. It was designed primarily to launch, service, and recover reconnaissance satellites. The program received billions of dollars from the DOD for this purpose and the civilian spaceflight program was a cover for what was essentially the evolution of the Manned Orbiting…

Gen I Viper styling with C4 reliability and an automatic? What’s not to like? It’s the best of both worlds. You get 99% of the handling, 100% of the styling, 100% of the rattle, and you won’t burn your arms or shins on the doors. The only thing missing is the torque, which is only down 120 lb.-ft, maybe a second or…

First: the used car market has been on a bubble with prices the last few years and it’s finally crashing. Why would anyone spend $30,000 on a truck with over 100,000 miles at 10% interest when they can go buy a brand new one at $40,000 with incentives and 0% interest? Especially considering everyone knows that the…

A friend of mine was the engineer for our local AM broadcast station, 50 kw transmitter. He took me over to the shack one time for a tour. The inside of the shack was illuminated by fluorescent lights that were switched off. There was enough RF in the air to light up the bulbs when the transmitter was on, and the only…