Haha yeah - those non-halogen ones used an 1156 stop lamp bulb. Threw practically zero light. My car was blue and I replaced the lenses with blue plexi which I thought was pretty cool - until I got pulled over and politely told by an officer that red and blue front lights were not allowed.

What I remembered about those is they’d get saturated with fuel and a good backfire through the carb and FLAME ON!

I have one on my old Ram 1500 and it does make good noises - perfect for bombing out Teams calls when I get stuck working while on the road.

Put a glasspack muffler on my high school car - 1979 Fairmont 302.  All 125 hrsprs!

Yup. Had several of these in my collection.

Agreed.  Reluctant ND.

That’s an awful big floor shifter for an AOD and most of those “vacuum lines” are either heater hoses or air injection lines. 

The other thing that damn near killed pinball machines was video game “conversion kits” that became available after a standard wiring harness (“JAMMA” - Japan Amusement Machine Manufacturer Association) was adopted by most of the industry. An operator could take an older game that wasnt making money and at a price…

Inside, there was a spot for auxiliary gauges that wouldn’t look out of place in a Z but were also pointless in that they showed oil pressure, voltage and instant fuel economy.

Yeah, new machine production nearly died out about a decade ago. Back in the 90s when I was in the biz, nobody bought them for home use. Now the majority of new machines never see commercial use.

For older EM (electro-mechanical) ones, you’d be right but modern ones built in the last 20 years have had a huge resurgence and like cars, do offer some on-board diagnostics that help.

You think car prices are nuts, solid state (non-mechanical) machines are crazy expensive these days - especially for popular titles. New machines start around $6,000 and can go to double that with special editions as much as double that.

Quit your talkin and start chalkin!

Story in the ad is “Dent on passenger side door where my truck rolled in to it at about 2mph (parking brake failed).”

Story in the linked CL ad is “Dent on passenger side door where my truck rolled in to it at about 2mph (parking brake failed).”

138,000 per the CL ad - so yeah on a 10 year old rig about average. Hardly low mileage.

My F150 got stuck on the way down so I had to spend another 8 bucks on a Mirage to knock it loose.

You probably knew this, but the Robocop cars werent SHOs. They were actual police-spec cars with the head-gasket blowinest 3.8.  The grille vents were there to help with cooling when idling.

Being from CA, the first thing I noticed is HOLY SHIT, IT’S STILL GOT THE ORIGINAL PLATES

Drywall/concrete mixing tubs from Home Depot/Lowes are my jam.  Thick enough to drag across concrete without worry of rubbing a hole in them and cheap.  Only downside is if the car has all 4 on the ground, getting them in there can be a challenge - but if I’m doing something like a trans service I have it raised up a…