My sister has had one from that era for over ten years now and I don’t think anything has broken on it yet. Well over 200k on it!

I think it’s safe to say that after the reliability and build quality of the Malibu, my mom is pretty anti GM at this point. When she had the trunk lid replaced on her Accord due to a collision, she got a Ford Flex as a rental and loved it. When the clear coat hazed up on the trunk about five years later and she took…

My mom bought a slightly used SL2 in 1997 and she loved it. Even though I was about eleven years old I remember them talking about how great the dealership treated them and how accommodating they were when she brought it in for service. They gave my sister and I cookies, popcorn, and soda and let us watch TV on any…

Plate trading is common in stunt crews. Person A steals a plate and runs it for a while and then trades it to Person B for their plate which has already been passed around the alphabet a few times. Keeps you from getting pulled over for not having a plate unless the cop chooses to randomly run it, and the constant…

It’s technically illegal to do anything that involves removing or modifying the factory installed emissions control devices on a vehicle in any state. So, that would also cover swapping an engine into anything made with emissions equipment. That said, my 1979 MGB had all of its emissions components removed by its…

Farm tractor engines in Ford F150’s...

Ha! That’s funny because I have the same issue. When it’s cold, I double clutch into 2nd and 3rd and it drops right in. When it’s warm, I bump the shifter to the right about an inch between my 1 - 2 shifts as well for the same reason. Mine didn’t look that nice when I bought it, I gave it a respray a few weeks after.…

Hey, I have that truck! 1988 with the 300 and M5OD. It’s showing 345,XXX but I think it has had a rebuild since I found a rod bearing in the glove box after I bought it. What tranny do you have?

They’re staff writers. That means it’s their job that they make a living from. You would need to work for Jalopnik.

Be on the Jalopnik payroll as a staff writer.

I know this post is for road worthy, but I want to give an honorable mention to the Porsche 356 that is half buried in the ground, in the woods near my house for $24k.

Fords for me, just because they’re familiar and I only tend to buy cars that are 25+ years old. Most Ford products were built with similar engineering across the board from the 60’s-80’s, so I’m right at home with them. I currently have:

Yep. The emissions tester just plugs into the OBDII port and cycles the engine on and off when the computer instructs doing so. Wouldn’t be hard to have the car default to sending false information when it senses the emissions computer plugged in. I’m pretty sure a lot of people who have substantially modified cars…

Anyone who buys a car to be “cute”. A friend of mine makes a name for herself by creating really nice sewing patterns and has quite an online following, so of course she wanted to fit the persona of cuteness and buy a MINI. So the Toyota is traded in and she buys a really “nice” MINI which has since run out of…

It is a nice area, but it’s also close enough to the more questionable areas to be able to make a getaway in a carjacking. Unless you don’t know where you’re going. Haha

I’m not saying they won’t rent the Ecoboost, that’s up to the buyer for the rental company. I know some rent GT’s as well, so it just depends on what rental place wants what. It goes back to my same idea of Ford probably assuming the V6 won’t be much of a volume seller. It’s the same reason they didn’t just jump the…

I think it has to do with the fact that they are pushing the V6 as a more fleet-oriented vehicle. Rental companies get the same options and drivetrain they already knew and can keep the same maintenance costs across the board. I’m sure the number of V6 cars on dealer lots is miniscule and I would also assume that the…

Came here to say what SilverPantherSilver did. My 1963 Mercury Comet daily driver has a GEN light on it that only illuminates when the car is running on straight battery. I converted it from the factory generator to a Ford 3G alternator off a Taurus and now that GEN light circuit is actually what tells the solid state…

If you want politics, head over to Jezebel. I’m happy that crap hasn’t infiltrated Jalopnik.

It’s definitely still a valuable car to the right person and in the Camaro market, those can be found pretty easily. Back in the day they were much more uncommon though. The last year of the LT1 4th gen there were 57,810 total Camaros produced, and out of those only 46 were in 1LE trim. Part of me still thinks the…