Because anything with those old RED diode digits automatically dates whatever they are affixed to.

The execution on the dash is like something you’d see in a kit car or a homemade plywood boat. Can’t help but think he’d have been better off trying to swap in an instrument panel from a Seville.

The shortcomings of digital gages weren’t recognized in the early ‘80s. At the time, they were being used on a number of sports and luxury cars and were thought of as a high tech status symbol.

I have way too many mixed feelings about this car. Mostly about the interior. I love the depths he was willing to go, but the finished product looks like an 80s version of Pimp My Ride. There’s so much going on, but it all looks like it was done to a fairly high standard. The gauges look like a working version of…

LOL at “CHOKE”. So much retro-future going on.

I’d hate to see what’s behind that dashboard...

... maybe the Millennium Falcon compares with a B-58 Hustler.

It’s a good comparison but I think a better one would be the Falcon and the DeHavilland Mosquito. The Mosquito was built as a cheap, easy to manufacture, all wooden light bomber. It just so happened that it was also fast and could outfly a lot of the fighters sent to shoot it down. A true WWII legend.

And this has been constantly explained. The Kessel Run starts at a certain point and you are trying to make it in the shortest distance. It isn’t the most far fetched thing out there.

I learned to drive stick on basically this exact car except it was red. And it was fucking awesome. In 1988 this was about the most badass car around for a high school kid. Good memories..

I’ve always been partial to the liftbacks.

Best Celica Supra? A60 or bust:

I always liked the 1980s Celica Supra. Just seemed badass when someone drove up to the High School in one.

P-38 Lightning? Yeah no ...

I met this fantastic woman, during my second year of university, who owned one of these Supras (passed down from her father). When she became my girlfriend, I rode in, then gradually took over driving, that car for the next eight years or so. I loved that car. Yes, it was heavy; it was also incredibly well-built,…

No it’s the Mozzie, damn fast, built of junk, overpowered, can take a beating and keep on fighting, goes on the most dangerous raids and liberates prisoners.

This particular generation of Celica was an oddball to me. It was considerably heavier than its predecessor, and the styling was bizarrely out of step with the rest of Toyota’s line at the time. Instead of showing the crisp lines that were emerging in the late 70s - early 80s era, we got something that more closely…

That’s not even the best Celica.

Surely the Porax-38, seen on Utupau in Revenge of the Sith, is the real tribute to the P-38, both in name and design?

If it’s about speed and versatility you should have said the De Havilland Mosquito. Like the Falcon, it’s pretty unassuming too.