We still need our gladiators

I’m right there with you. The author of this sub blog is a shade tree mechanic who doesn’t know you shouldn’t start a car with an interference engine when you know the timing system is fucked up.

I just love how this old guy kept his well cared for piece of shit going for so long. It harkens back to another time. I’m also in a major American city, not out in the boonies (where I feel like this is more common).

And neither of those are safe. I also used to park my Corvair next to a Miata, and the Miata still looked big in comparison.

Dat ass tho!

So you picked up on the sarcasm in the first sentence, but not the second? Or did you think I actually thought adding a battery, gas, and water to a car was “next level shit”?

I’ll be watching Claressa Shields whoop some ass with my five and three year-old daughters next Wednesday. If you haven’t heard her story, check this article out.

Every ignition is sitting there waiting to be started with a screw driver. My tumbler locked up once and I had to hotwire my truck with some wires I tore out of the radio. I didn’t even have a screw driver.

They added a battery, gas, and water to a running car? That’s some next level shit there. Knowing they needed to keep oil from pouring out of the cranckcase is what really sets them above your everyday shadetree mechanic. It would have been more impressive if they’d found a way to not leave a bunch of broken glass all…

I kid you not, there is a beige, and very clean Chevette daily driven by an old guy in my neighborhood. It’s pretty amazing.

^^^^^^^^^^^^I’ll have what he’s having.

They have a reputation for building reliable cars that old people and non car people buy. Their motorcycles on the other hand... those are what got them their reputation. I’ll always have an air cooled Honda in my stable. This forty year old bike makes more horsepower per liter than that “driver’s car”

Not the only one.

What Subie did you buy? Subaru generally makes the same car for about twenty years.

I’m a Dad as well...

Having done 120 mph in a ‘66 GMC longbed that probably originally topped out at 60, I believe you.

Also, 178 mph in a car with the basic architecture of something from the ‘60s running an air cooled flat six is pretty fast.

Everybody knows Lambo only makes stuff for Mopar. Pretty sure Bugatti is making GM exhausts now.

Haven’t seen that one in a while!

They could call it the Geo Ecotec!