The brake recalibrate thing IS actually true for cars with drum brakes that have self adjusters. If you have 4 wheel disks like most today (but not just 10 years ago!) do, or you have drums without self adjusters (like my ‘61 Corvair!) then the advice doesn’t apply. You don’t need to be going fast, just hit them hard…

Damn, that is a brilliant analogy.

“I know for the last couple of years, I have been a lying,deceiving, money-grabbing cad. Yet,I had no choice. I was a Race promoter.”

That Mustang had zero intention of ever hooking up anywhere. Including the straight.

I want to know what kind of safety rating a D9R would get...

No, it wasn’t Nader that killed the Corvair. Nader’s book extended it’s life as GM had to prove that Nader was wrong. If you want to see the real killer, you have to look to the Mustang, Camaro, and Nova. $2000 for a Nova vs $2500 for a Corvair vs $2800 for a Camaro? Who wants a Corvair? Not many people in 1968.

The ‘63 Corvette was state of the art with a fully independant suspension, 4 wheel disc brakes, fuel injection, and a light weight fiberglass body. The ‘63 Corvair Monza had a whopping 150HP out of it’s turbocharged 145CID flat six. And this was an economy car! The early ‘60 GM had scads of innovation. Almost single…

Have you done chili yet?

There’s a reddit board called what he said, they love this type of stuff and are totally cool with shade tree posters.

Corvair. Van, truck, sedan, coupe, convertible, airplane, amphibious tank, twin engined military vehicle, mid engined sports car, 1954 Corvette, Myers Manx. A Corvair can be ANYTHING!

Well, I’m including the 2000-2009 lip skid that the economy took.

My problem that is making the hope of retirement very bleak, I’ve been putting money into retirement accounts since 1999. And in 17 years now, I’m not even to $100K because most of those years I’d have been better off investing in aluminum cans. On average I’ve put 10% in, but for a decade the average return was…

Religion, Business, Government. Whenever any two of these get overlapped bad things happen.

He sure has a history of hitting motorcycles...

Elsewhere in Jalopland....

Give me a Lamborghini R8. Inclimate weather, and road conditions be damned.

So you’re saying Ezekiel23:19-20 is a bad password now?

I know my 401k investments sure did!

“My girlfriend went to China and brought me back some souvenirs. I told her she didn’t need to do that because damned near everything in our house was made in China.” —Josh Blue

On the plus side, this is clearly a dismantler who is rather familiar with the niche market cars and wouldn’t call putting a Fiero engine in it an upgrade...